Indiana’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Indiana’s lake country — Lake Wawasee, Lake Maxinkuckee at Culver, and the Steuben County lakes around Angola — concentrates the state’s most valuable second homes on shorelines where storms arrive over open water at full strength. Tall custom homes stand among mature hardwoods at the water’s edge, often empty on weekdays. We protect the whole lakeside property under one plan: house, boathouse, guest house, and the shoreline trees themselves.
A lake home’s exposure starts with the water: storm cells cross the lakes unbroken and hit the shoreline first, and the tall homes along it — multi-story custom builds and older cottages under big hardwoods — are the tallest points on their shore. Add the realities of second-home ownership: the house often sits empty between weekends, full of wiring, systems, and the dock and lift equipment at the water’s edge. A strike to a chimney can tear masonry; a strike to a shoreline tree can side-flash into the roof it shades; and either can send destructive current through every circuit in the house, discovered days later when the family arrives.
WB Lightning Rods protects Indiana lake homes the way we’ve protected homes since 1950: low-profile systems designed around the architecture, with the shoreline itself part of the design — tall trees near the house get their own protection, and docks and lifts are bonded into the plan. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner, built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA.
Open water gives storms a clear run and lightning a clear target: the tallest structure on the shore. Lake homes carry that exposure every hour of the season, occupied or not.
A smoldering strike or a fried electrical system in an empty house runs undiscovered until the weekend. Protection that works while nobody’s home is the entire point of a designed system on a lake property.
Hardwood canopy is part of a lake home’s value — and its exposure. We install lightning protection for trees themselves, so the trees that shade the house stop being the risk above it.
One company for the whole property — custom homes, boathouses, guest houses, and shoreline trees, anywhere in Indiana’s lake country.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Discreet, low-profile systems for the lakes’ custom homes and the older cottages that have anchored their shores for generations — clean runs that respect the architecture.
Discreet, low-profile systems for older farmhouses and historic homes — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines, 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.
We protect all of your buildings — main house, boathouse, guest house, garage, and shoreline trees — with a lifetime of protection. Multi-building packages price the whole property together, so protecting everything costs less than protecting buildings one at a time.
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, road, or lake shore.
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 made in the USA — and designed for Indiana’s lake country specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, peaks, cupolas, and boathouse roofs — the high points lightning seeks first on lake homes.
Heavy conductor cables routed cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, carrying strike energy safely down and away from the structure.
Deep-driven ground rods at every down conductor, sized for shoreline soils — so strike energy disperses safely into the earth.
Metal roofing, gutters, water lines, and electrical services bonded to the protection system, so stray current can’t side-flash between metal parts.
Boathouses, guest houses, garages, and workshops incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A lake property is a collection of buildings and trees: main house, boathouse, guest house, garage, and the hardwoods that frame the view. Our design treats it as one property — every structure protected, the close-standing trees factored in, docks and lifts bonded — so there is no gap for a strike to find. Neighboring lake homes that install in the same trip earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, which lake associations make easy to organize.
And because WB serves all of Indiana statewide, a Wawasee lake home and a primary home in Indianapolis or Fort Wayne under the same owner are one call, one company — one standard of protection at both addresses. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call, even mid-winter.
Real WB installations — custom homes and shoreline properties protected by our own crew.
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 Indiana storms the calm way.
It’s the strongest argument for a designed system. Protection works around the clock whether anyone is home or not — a strike gets a controlled path to earth instead of the home’s wiring, and there’s no smoldering damage waiting to be discovered on Friday night.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Multi-building packages price the property together, which brings the per-building cost down. Estimates are free — many are built from satellite imagery of your property — and every system carries a lifetime warranty on parts and labor.
Yes. A strike to a shoreline tree or the water nearby — or one that hits utility lines down the shore road — can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, dock and lift motors, and electronics. That’s why grounding and bonding matter as much as the rods on the roof: a properly grounded system gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth at the structure itself.
Yes. We install lightning protection for trees themselves — their own terminals and grounding — and a tall tree close to the house or boathouse is factored into every lake property design. The canopy keeps its value without keeping its risk.
Yes — lake communities organize this easily. When several homes on the same shore install in the same trip, everyone shares the travel and setup, and we pass that saving on as a neighborhood discount on multi-home packages.
It’s designed not to. Terminals are sized to sit quietly on the roofline, and conductors run cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines. On custom homes and older cottages alike, the finished system is protection you have to look for to see.
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