Flagpole installation inBurlington, VT

Flagpoles in Burlington

Vermont's largest city and its commercial centre, with a hospital, two college campuses and a working lakefront under a downtown that climbs a couple of hundred feet from the water. We cover Burlington and the Chittenden County area, including the Church Street Marketplace, Waterfront Park and the bike path, Battery Park, the University of Vermont green and the Hill Section, Champlain College, the UVM Medical Center campus, the Pine Street corridor in the South End, the Old North End, and Winooski, Essex Junction and South Burlington next door.

Wind here. Burlington sits in a lake-exposed urban area, which works out to roughly 105 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. Burlington is two wind conditions inside one city. There is nothing between the waterfront and the New York shore, so anything below Battery Street is sized as open ground, while the Hill Section stands a couple of hundred feet above it behind close building and heavy tree cover and behaves like sheltered ground. Under much of the city is the soft grey marine clay the Champlain Sea left behind, which carries less than the ledge a few miles out, so the footing is designed for what is in the hole rather than for the height of the pole. In a design review district the work needs a Certificate of Appropriateness, and the Design Advisory Board sees it first and then advises the Development Review Board, which is the body that decides. That is two meetings rather than one, so ask early. The salt here is winter road salt off the street rather than sea spray, which is a different exposure and a kinder one.

Most of the people who call us from Burlington are hotels and restaurants downtown, college and hospital buildings, banks and professional offices, marinas and boathouses, churches, condominium associations and city facilities.