Flagpole installation inBoise, ID

Flagpoles in Boise

The state capital and the commercial centre of Idaho, with government offices, two hospital systems, technology manufacturing and a compact downtown that keeps filling in. We cover Boise and the Ada County area, including the Idaho State Capitol and the Capitol Mall, downtown and the Basque Block, the Egyptian Theatre, Boise State University, the Boise River Greenbelt, Hyde Park and the North End, Warm Springs Avenue and the Boise Foothills.

Wind here. Boise sits in a dry, sheltered and inland 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. Boise does not print a wind number on its own criteria sheet. It sends you to the code figures and to the exposure of the site instead, and for an ordinary building on this valley floor that comes out at 115 mph. What the city does fix is the ground and the roof: 24 inches of frost depth, written in as a local amendment, 20 pounds a square foot of snow on the ground and a 25 pound minimum on a roof. Boise has ten historic districts, and exterior work inside one runs through a Certificate of Appropriateness decided case by case, so a pole in the North End, Hyde Park or on Warm Springs Avenue is worth raising with the Historic Preservation Commission before it is ordered. Above the valley floor the hillside and foothill rules take over, and a Foothills lot brings slope, soil and geology reports with the permit, which is worth knowing before a date is set.

Most of the people who call us from Boise are state agency and courthouse buildings, hospitals and clinics, school and university campuses, churches, veterans posts, hotels and downtown offices, and homeowners on the older residential streets.