Flagpole installation inBillings, MT

Flagpoles in Billings

Montana's largest city and its wholesale, medical and refining centre, serving a trade area that runs well past the state line. We cover Billings and the Yellowstone County area, including downtown and Montana Avenue, the Rimrocks with the airport on top of them, MetraPark, the medical corridor, Montana State University Billings, the West End and Shiloh Crossing, the Heights, Lockwood and the refinery ground down at Laurel.

Wind here. Billings sits in an inland, open-terrain area, which works out to roughly 110 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. Billings publishes its own design criteria rather than leaving you to a map, and it puts two numbers on the page. The first is 110 mph at exposure C. Exposure C is the open-terrain case rather than the sheltered-town one, which is honest about what the West End and the bench actually are, and it is why a Billings pole often comes out a size heavier than the figure alone would suggest. The second is a 42 inch frost depth, and on a straightforward job that is what decides the hole. The Rims are the local fact the paperwork does not carry: a sandstone cliff standing between downtown and the Heights, with the airport on top of it and nothing upwind at all. Down on the valley floor the wind is mild by Montana standards, so most of what we replace here was finished off by sun, cold and time rather than blown over. Historic work goes to the Yellowstone Historic Preservation Board, a nine-member body that the city, Yellowstone County and Laurel run jointly under an interlocal agreement, and its meeting calendar is worth checking before an order goes in.

Most of the people who call us from Billings are refineries and industrial plants, hospital and clinic buildings, distribution and equipment dealers, banks and downtown offices, school district and county facilities, and veterans posts.