Flagpole installation inBakersfield, CA

Flagpoles in Bakersfield

The commercial centre of Kern County, running on oil, agriculture, distribution and a growing hospital and college base. We cover Bakersfield and the Kern County area, including downtown and Chester Avenue, the Kern County administrative campus, Cal State Bakersfield, Bakersfield College, the Kern River oilfield, the Rosedale and Stockdale commercial belts and the Highway 99 and Highway 58 freight corridors.

Wind here. Bakersfield sits in a hot, dusty and inland area, which works out to roughly 95 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. Digging is regulated here in a way it is not in most of the country. Bakersfield sits inside the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, whose Regulation VIII rules cover dust from construction and earthmoving, so the hole for a flagpole is watered and kept down like any other excavation, and that is part of the job rather than an afterthought. The ground swings between expansive clay that moves with the season and a cemented hardpan that stops an auger short, and the two take different foundations, so which one you have is worth establishing before it is quoted. Kern County shakes harder than the valley north of it, and the 1952 earthquake here is the reason people ask; the honest answer is that the footing and the anchor bolts carry that, not the pole. Sun and blown dust do the slow damage, scouring a satin finish and shortening a flag's life, so anodized is the sensible specification and flags get replaced more often than they would on the coast.

Most of the people who call us from Bakersfield are oilfield and energy operations, packing houses and agricultural businesses, school and college districts, county and city buildings, hospitals, distribution centres, churches and veterans posts.