Delaware’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
WB Lightning Rods is headquartered at 560 Peoples Plaza in Newark — New Castle County is home. From historic Old Newark and New Castle to the neighborhoods of Bear, Glasgow, and Pike Creek, we protect the homes of the county we live in, the way we’ve done it since 1950: whole-property systems installed by our own local crew and personally supervised by the owner.
New Castle County takes summer thunderstorms off the Piedmont and up the Delaware River — cells that build over the hills arrive over Newark, Bear, and Glasgow at full strength, and river storms sweep the waterfront towns from Delaware City to Claymont. The county’s homes range from colonial-era houses in Old New Castle to newer custom homes on wooded lots in Pike Creek and Hockessin, and all of them share the same exposure: tall chimneys and ridgelines under mature trees, with the roofline the tallest point on the lot.
This is WB’s home county. Our headquarters is on Peoples Plaza in Newark, our crews are local, and a large share of the systems we’ve installed since 1950 are within a short drive of this page. We protect the whole property — main house, garages, sheds, workshops, and barns — with low-profile systems designed around each home’s architecture, installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner.
WB was founded here and is still headquartered in Newark. When a New Castle County customer calls, they’re calling a neighbor — and our service calls, inspections, and maintenance checks are all close to home.
The county sits where two storm tracks meet: cells rolling off the northern ridges and weather driving up the Delaware. Homes here see both, all summer long.
Colonial historic homes, mid-century neighborhoods, and new custom builds all need the same thing: a system designed for that roofline, with grounding sized for local clay and river soils.
One company for the whole property — homes, historic houses, garages, and workshops, anywhere in New Castle County.
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 historic New Castle and Old Newark homes and custom homes across the county — clean runs 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, garages, workshops, pool houses, and barns — 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 New Castle County specifically, not copied from a template.
Low-profile terminals placed along ridgelines, chimneys, cupolas, and dormers — the high points lightning seeks first, sized to sit quietly on the roof.
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, designed for county soils — Piedmont clay up north, river soils along the Delaware — 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.
Garages, workshops, pool houses, sheds, and barns incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
Most county homes have more than the house to protect. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — main house, garage, workshop, pool house, and any outbuildings, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps (where fitted), pool equipment, and landscape lighting all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies street by street. Neighbors who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages — and in our home county, whole streets of WB systems are common. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — homes, carriage houses, and barns 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 Delaware storms the calm way.
Our headquarters is 560 Peoples Plaza, Suite 234, Newark, DE 19702 — we’re a Delaware company, family owned and operated since 1950. New Castle County is home, and it’s where a large share of our three generations of work stands.
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.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, a fence, 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.
Yes. Complete installations and repairs — that’s the work. We inspect existing systems (including ones installed decades ago), repair storm damage and wear, and bring older installations up to current NFPA 780 standards. We make old systems great again.
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. In our home county it only takes one organizer to get a whole street started.
Yes. Historic homes get discreet, low-profile systems — terminals sized to sit quietly on the roofline and cable runs along rooflines and downspout lines — designed to protect the house without changing how it looks.
Rated 4.9 stars with 300+ verified Angi reviews, and a BBB A+ accredited business. Two recent Google reviews:
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