Flagpole installation inBellingham, WA

Flagpoles in Bellingham

A university and port city on Bellingham Bay, the last commercial centre before the Canadian border, rebuilding a 237-acre former pulp mill site as its waterfront. We cover Bellingham and the Whatcom County area, including downtown and the Waterfront District, the Fairhaven historic district, Western Washington University, Squalicum Harbor and the Port of Bellingham, Barkley Village, Sunnyland and the Guide Meridian corridor.

Wind here. Bellingham sits in a damp, north-coast marine area, which works out to roughly 100 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 wind that matters in Bellingham does not come off the Pacific. Several times each winter cold air pours out of the Fraser River valley to the northeast and blows hard across Whatcom County, from the opposite quarter to the usual southwesterly and often with freezing rain in it. So the fly zone here is checked from both directions rather than one, and the hardware has to still turn after a night of ice on it. The city runs a Design Review Board, and work in Fairhaven and in the Waterfront District goes in front of it, which is time to allow for rather than a problem. Bay frontage and the harbour put salt on everything, and the old mill ground on the central waterfront is made land, so nothing there gets dug on assumption.

Most of the people who call us from Bellingham are university and school buildings, marinas and marine trades, hospitals and clinics, hotels and restaurants, breweries and light industry, and county and city facilities.