Ohio’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
New Albany pairs large new homes on open ground with working horse farms — tall rooflines, barns, and arenas standing high over flat fields east of Columbus. When summer storms build over those fields, there's nothing taller to take the strike. We protect the whole property.
Northeast of Columbus, New Albany has grown as a master-planned community of large homes — and kept its equestrian character, with horse farms, barns, and arenas on the township roads around the village center. Both profiles carry the same risk: tall structures standing isolated on open, flat ground, exactly what lightning seeks out, through a hard summer storm season rolling across central Ohio.
WB Lightning Rods protects New Albany homes and horse properties with complete systems designed for each structure — the residence, the barn, the arena, the garage. New homes get protection designed in during construction, when conductors and grounding go in cleanly; existing homes and barns are retrofitted with the same care. Our experienced crew installs every system, personally supervised by the owner.
New Albany is still building. A system designed while the house goes up integrates with the roofline and grounds before the landscaping — protected from the first storm, with nothing retrofitted.
A barn concentrates horses, hay, feed, and tack in one tall structure. A single strike can end an operation in minutes — protection costs a fraction of that risk.
Flat fields offer no taller target to share the risk. Height plus isolation is exactly the profile a protection system is designed for.
One company for the whole property — homes, farms, barns, trees, and every building in between, anywhere in Ohio.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Protection designed in while the house goes up — new homes rising across New Albany and Plain Township, protected from day one.
Discreet, low-profile systems for Ohio's older farmhouses and historic homes — protection you have to look for to see.
Barns, stables, and arenas protected along with the residence — horses, hay, and tack, all covered.
Agricultural buildings, equipment shops, and hay storage — the tallest structures on the farm, and the ones lightning finds first.
Multi-building packages for farms — we protect all of your buildings — house, barns, shops, and sheds — with a lifetime of protection.
Mature oaks, maples, and specimen trees protected with their own terminals and grounding, so a shade tree never becomes the strike path to your roof.
Neighbors who install together save together — neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages for your street or development.
Complete installations and repairs — that’s the work. Already have a system? We inspect it, repair storm damage and wear, and bring older installations up to current NFPA 780 standards. We make old systems great again.
Building new? We design and install protection while the home or barn is going up — cleaner cable runs, nothing retrofitted after the fact.
Every WB system is built to NFPA 780 guidelines using UL-listed materials — and designed for New Albany specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, barn ridges, cupolas, and arena peaks — the high points lightning seeks first on New Albany properties.
Copper or aluminum cables routed discreetly along rooflines and building lines, carrying strikes down and away from the structures.
Deep-driven ground rods at every down conductor, sited with care around pastures, lots, and water lines on horse properties, and bonded together.
Metal roofing, water lines, fencing near structures, and electrical systems bonded into the system to prevent dangerous side-flashes.
Barns, arenas, garages, and pool houses incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
From the neighborhoods around the village center to the horse farms along the township roads, the New Albany pattern repeats: a large residence plus outbuildings spread over open acres. Our whole-property packages price that as one design — every building protected, no gap between them.
Neighbors in the same development who install together qualify for neighborhood multi-home packages. And because WB serves all of Ohio statewide, a New Albany home and a farm or second property anywhere in the state are one call, one company.
Many quotes are built from satellite imagery of your home — fast, accurate, and no obligation. Call 1-800-557-9037.
Our experienced crew installs the system, and every installation is personally supervised by the owner, start to finish.
Lifetime warranty on parts and labor, with a 5-year maintenance check at no cost. Then you watch Ohio storms the calm way.
During construction is ideal — terminals, conductors, and grounding integrate cleanly as the house rises, and the home is protected from its first storm season. Call before the roof is finished if you can; if the house is already up, we retrofit new homes every week.
Yes — barns, stables, and arenas are core work for us, along with the residence. Horses, hay, feed, and tack all sit under one tall roof; we protect the whole property, not just the house.
No. We design low-profile systems that follow the roofline — most people never notice one. On New Albany's brick, stone, and slate roofs, conductors are routed along existing lines and corners.
Yes — ground current from a nearby strike spreads through wet soil, fencing, and water lines and can reach animals in pastures and lots. Grounding design around livestock areas is part of every horse-property system we build.
A tall tree close to the house can side-flash a strike into the roof. We protect specimen trees with their own terminals and grounding, and factor nearby trees into every home design.
It depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Whole-property packages price buildings together, which brings the per-building cost down. Estimates are free — many start from satellite imagery — and every system carries a lifetime warranty on parts and labor with a 5-year maintenance check at no cost.
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