Indiana’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Indianapolis’s north side holds the city’s grand old neighborhoods — Meridian Hills, Williams Creek, and the Meridian-Kessler corridor — where large, older homes stand under one of the oldest tree canopies in Indiana. Those chimneys rise into that canopy, and Indiana storms cross the flat city at full strength all summer. We protect the whole property: main house, garages, carriage houses, and the trees that shade them, every part designed into one plan.
From Meridian Street’s historic homes through Broad Ripple, Butler-Tarkington, and up to Williams Creek, the north side pairs big, tall, older housing stock with very big, old trees. That is a shared strike zone: a mature oak beside a chimney is as much a target as the chimney itself, and roots run to foundations. A strike to a chimney can tear masonry and drop it through the roof; a strike to a tree can side-flash into the roofline; and older wiring gives stray current plenty of paths through the house.
WB Lightning Rods protects Indianapolis homes the way we’ve protected historic and custom homes since 1950: low-profile systems designed around the architecture, with terminals sized to sit quietly on the roofline, clean cable runs along rooflines and downspout lines, and lightning protection for close-standing trees. 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.
Meridian Hills and Williams Creek grew up together — the trees and the houses are the same age, and the trees are taller. A designed system covers the roof and the trees that stand over it.
Brick, slate, and stone homes need protection that respects the roofline. Our systems are designed to be looked for, not looked at — protection you have to search for to see.
North-side streets share the same canopy and the same risk. Neighbors who install together share the travel and setup — and save with neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages.
One company for the whole property — historic and custom homes, carriage houses, garages, and trees, across Indianapolis’s north side and the whole metro.
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 north side’s historic and custom homes — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines that respect older 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, carriage houses, garages, and outbuildings — 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 Indianapolis homes specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, peaks, and cupolas — the high points lightning seeks first on the north side’s tall older 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 city 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.
Carriage houses, garages, guest houses, and sheds incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A north-side property is rarely just a house. Carriage houses, detached garages, and garden structures share the lot and the electrical service, and a design that covers only the main roof leaves real exposure standing. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — house, carriage house, and garages, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them.
The same thinking applies house by house down the street. Neighboring homes that install in the same trip earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Indiana statewide, an Indianapolis home and a Geist lake house under the same owner are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — historic homes, custom homes, and carriage houses 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 designed not to. Terminals are sized to sit quietly on the roofline, and conductors run cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines. On the north side’s older homes the finished system is protection you have to look for to see.
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 nearby tree or the ground itself — or one that hits utility lines down the street — can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, 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 — and on the north side it matters. A tall tree close to a house can side-flash a strike into the roof, or send current through its roots toward the foundation. We install lightning protection for trees themselves — their own terminals and grounding — and we factor nearby trees into every property design.
Yes. When several homes on the same street 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 only takes one organizer to get it started.
Yes. We inspect existing systems, repair storm damage and wear, and bring older installations up to current NFPA 780 standards. We make old systems great again.
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