Rhode Island’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
Kent County is Rhode Island’s middle: Warwick’s long bay shoreline and neighborhoods, East Greenwich’s historic hill and shore, and Coventry and West Greenwich’s inland woods and farms. Summer thunderstorms sweep in off Narragansett Bay and build over the inland hills, and every part of the county — shore point, subdivision, or farm field — puts rooflines in the strike zone. We protect the whole property: main house, barns, shops, and garages, every building covered.
From Warwick’s shore neighborhoods — Gaspee, Oakland Beach, Warwick Neck — through East Greenwich and North Kingstown’s edge to Coventry, West Warwick, and West Greenwich inland, Kent County mixes bay-shore homes with suburbs and rural farms. Bay storms come ashore at full strength along Warwick’s miles of coastline, and inland storms fire over the hills and strike the tall trees standing over Coventry and West Greenwich homes. 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 Kent County properties the way we’ve protected homes and farms since 1950: low-profile systems designed around the architecture, grounding designed for everything from shore sand to inland ledge, and whole-property packages that design the house, barns, shops, and garages into one plan. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner.
Warwick wraps around the upper bay, and its shore neighborhoods face storms coming off the water unbroken. On a shore lot, your roofline is the tallest point around.
East Greenwich’s older homes carry old-growth timber and details no modern build reproduces. A discreet, properly grounded system protects the fabric of the house without changing how it looks.
Coventry and West Greenwich homes and farms sit under and beside some of the tallest tree cover in the state. Trees and rooflines share the strike zone — a designed system covers both.
One company for the whole property — bay-shore homes, historic homes, suburban homes, farmhouses, barns, and shops, anywhere in Kent County.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Low-profile systems for Warwick and East Greenwich custom and bay-shore homes — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines 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, barns, shops, 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 Kent County specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and dormers — the high points lightning seeks first on Kent County 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 local soils — shore sand, inland clay, and ledge included — 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.
A Kent County property is often more than the house. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — main house, barns, shops, garages, and outbuildings, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, pool equipment, barn fans, and shop power all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies street by street. Neighbors in the same neighborhood or on the same road who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Rhode Island statewide, a Warwick home and a second property on Block Island are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — bay-shore 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 Rhode Island storms the calm way.
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. On East Greenwich’s historic homes, visitors never notice the system until it’s pointed out.
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 in the same neighborhood or on the same 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 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. Whole-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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