Flagpole installation inAsheville, NC

Flagpoles in Asheville

A tourism, hospital and craft-industry city sitting in a bowl of mountains, with a building stock people travel to look at. We cover Asheville and the Buncombe County area, including downtown and Pack Square, Biltmore Village and the estate approach, the River Arts District, Montford, Grove Park, UNC Asheville and the Blue Ridge Parkway approaches.

Wind here. Asheville sits in a mountain, elevation-driven area, which works out to roughly 115 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. The city figure is the statewide 115 mph and it is the least useful number in North Carolina. In the mountain counties the design speed goes by how high the site sits, not by the county line: 115 mph below 2,700 ft, which covers the city centre at about 2,100 ft, then 120, 130 and 140 mph as you climb, and 150 mph above 4,500 ft. 150 mph is the top of every flag-flying rating Eder publishes, so a high site is engineered for the address and we will not tell you a stock pole passes. Ground is the other mountain problem: soil is often thin over rock, and a hole that should take an hour can take a day. Steeper sites fall under the city and county steep-slope and ridgetop rules, which ask for engineering before the ground is disturbed, and Montford, Albemarle Park and Biltmore Village are local historic districts where the Historic Resources Commission issues the certificate of appropriateness.

Most of the people who call us from Asheville are hotels and inns, restaurants and breweries, hospital and university buildings, historic-district properties, municipal facilities and mountain-view homes.