South Carolina’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
The Upstate stacks its buildings against the Blue Ridge escarpment: Greenville and Spartanburg neighborhoods under tall hardwoods, lakefront homes on Hartwell and Keowee, and farms and horse properties across the rolling foothills around Anderson, Pickens, and Travelers Rest. Storms build over the mountains and break across the high ground first — and foothills roofs, ridge-top homes, and open-field barns are exactly what they find. We protect the whole property: main house, barns, shops, and garages, every building covered.
From Greenville’s Augusta Road and North Main neighborhoods through Spartanburg and Anderson to the lake communities and farm roads beyond, the Upstate mixes established in-town homes with lake properties and working farms on rising ground. The exposure is the terrain: storms that form over the Blue Ridge roll down the escarpment at full strength, and the first tall structures they meet are foothills rooftops, lake houses on open points, and barns standing in open pasture. A strike to a chimney or barn roof can tear masonry, ignite framing or hay, and send destructive current through every circuit on the property.
WB Lightning Rods protects Upstate properties the way we’ve protected farms and fine homes since 1950: low-profile systems designed around the architecture, heavy conductor cables routed cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, and grounding sized for foothills clay and rock. The whole property is designed into the plan — main house, barns, shops, and garages. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner.
Foothills and ridge-top homes sit in the path of storms breaking off the Blue Ridge. On rising ground, your roofline is the highest point for a long way in every direction.
Hartwell and Keowee shore homes sit on open water and exposed points where storms sweep in unbroken. On a lake lot, the house is the target.
Upstate barns, arenas, and run-in sheds stand in open pasture on rolling ground — the tallest structures around, holding animals, hay, and tack.
One company for the whole property — foothills homes, lakefront homes, horse farms, barns, and shops, anywhere in the Upstate.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Low-profile systems for Greenville and Spartanburg custom homes and Lake Hartwell and Keowee waterfront homes — clean runs that respect the architecture and the shoreline.
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, barns, shops, garages, and guest houses — 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 the Upstate specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on Upstate 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, sized for foothills clay and rock, 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.
Barns, pole barns, equipment shops, guest houses, and garages incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
An Upstate property is often more than the house. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — main house, barns, shops, garages, and guest houses, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, pool equipment, dock power, and barn fans all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies street by street and road by road. Neighbors who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of South Carolina statewide, a Greenville home and a second property on Lake Keowee or at the coast are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — foothills homes, barns, and farmhouses 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 South Carolina storms the calm way.
Yes. Storms build over the Blue Ridge and break across the high ground first, and on rising ground your roofline is the highest point around. A system designed for the roofline gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth instead.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, fence line, or the ground itself 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.
Yes — and we recommend it. Every structure on the property is designed into one plan: main house, barns, shops, and garages, each with its own terminals, conductors, and grounding, priced together as a property package.
Yes. When several homes on the same street or road 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 the most affordable way to protect a whole street, and it only takes one organizer to get it started.
A tall tree close to the house can side-flash a strike into the roof, or send current through its roots toward the foundation. We offer lightning protection for trees themselves — their own terminals and grounding — and we factor nearby trees into every property design.
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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