Maine’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
Down East is Maine’s far shore: Mount Desert Island, the Blue Hill peninsula, Deer Isle, and the bold coast running to Eastport and Lubec. Summer thunderstorms sweep in off the Gulf of Maine and fire over the headlands, and shore homes — many of them seasonal, many standing on granite points above the water — take them head-on. We protect the whole property: main house, guest house, barns, and shops, every building covered.
From Ellsworth through Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor to Blue Hill, Deer Isle, and the working waterfronts of Milbridge, Jonesport, and Eastport, Down East properties sit on some of the most exposed ground in Maine. The shore is granite and open water; storms arrive from the Gulf at full strength; and the houses — historic summer homes, year-round village houses, and farmhouses above the harbors — are the tallest structures on their points. A strike to a chimney or ridgeline can tear masonry, ignite framing, and send destructive current through every circuit in the house.
WB Lightning Rods protects Down East properties the way we’ve protected fine homes since 1950: low-profile systems designed around the architecture, heavy conductor cables routed cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, and grounding engineered for shore soils and the granite ledge this coast is built on. Seasonal homes get the same design as year-round ones — a grounded system works whether you’re there or not. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner.
Down East homes stand on open points and headlands where there is nothing taller for a mile. When a storm crosses the water, the roofline at the point is where it lands.
Many island and shore homes are empty outside the summer season. A properly grounded system works whether you’re there or not — and many quotes start from satellite imagery, so the process never needs you on site.
Down East ledge sits close to the surface along much of the shore. We engineer the ground system for the site — rods driven where soil allows, supplemented where it doesn’t — and verify it as part of the installation.
One company for the whole property — summer homes, year-round homes, guest houses, barns, and shops, anywhere Down East.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Low-profile systems for Down East summer homes and shore properties — clean runs that respect the architecture, shingles, and rooflines.
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, guest houses, barns, shops, 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 Down East specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and dormers — the high points lightning seeks first on Down East properties.
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 each structure, engineered for shore soils and granite ledge, 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.
Guest houses, barns, pole barns, equipment shops, and garages incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A Down East property is often more than the house — a guest house, a barn, a shore-side shop. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design, all of it protected, which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, pool equipment, and shop power all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies village by village. Neighbors on the same shore road who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Maine statewide, a Bar Harbor summer home and a year-round home inland are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations on estate properties — rods fitted to rooflines and chimneys with a low-profile finish that respects the architecture.
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 Maine storms the calm way.
Yes — and Down East shore homes are exactly where protection matters most, because nobody is home to smell smoke or cut power when a storm crosses the water. A properly grounded system works whether you’re there or not, and many quotes start from satellite imagery so the process doesn’t need you on site.
Ledge needs engineered grounding, not less protection — rods are driven where the soil allows and the ground system is supplemented and sized for the site’s resistance, then verified as part of the installation. WB designs every Down East system for its lot’s actual conditions.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, a dock, or utility lines down the road can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, pool equipment, and electronics. That’s why grounding and bonding matter as much as the terminals on the roof: a properly grounded system gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth at the structure itself.
Very little, when it’s designed properly. We use low-profile terminals and route heavy conductor cables cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, following the architecture instead of fighting it. Visitors never notice the system until it’s pointed out.
Yes. When several homes on the same shore road or in the same village 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.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Property packages price multiple buildings 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.
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