Flagpole installation inBoulder, CO

Flagpoles in Boulder

A university town pressed against the Flatirons, with federal laboratories, software offices and the outdoor-goods trade behind it. We cover Boulder and the Boulder County area, including the Pearl Street Mall, the University of Colorado campus, the Hill, Chautauqua, Table Mesa, Gunbarrel, the federal laboratories on Broadway and the Foothills Parkway and Boulder Canyon corridors.

Wind here. Boulder sits in an extreme downslope-wind area, which works out to roughly 150 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. Nowhere else in Colorado writes a wind number like Boulder's, and the city writes it into its own code amendments: a three-second gust of 150 mph east of Broadway and 165 mph west of it, with topographic effects and special wind region both answered yes. That is not a cautious margin. Downslope windstorms come off the range here every winter, and they are the reason the figure looks like that. 150 mph is at or above the highest flag-flying rating Eder publishes, so no stock pole is sold here as passing the city's number. The shaft, the footing and the flag size are engineered for the address together, and west of Broadway that is the only honest way to do it.

Most of the people who call us from Boulder are laboratory and research buildings, university and school facilities, hotels and restaurants, offices in the technology and outdoor-goods parks, churches, city buildings and homeowner associations.