Flagpole installation inCape May, NJ

Flagpoles in Cape May

A Victorian resort at the bottom of the state, where hotels and guest houses sit alongside a Coast Guard base and a working fishing harbour. We cover Cape May and the Cape May County, New Jersey area, including the Washington Street Mall, Beach Avenue and the promenade, Congress Hall, the Emlen Physick Estate, Cape May Harbor, the Coast Guard base, Cape May Point and West Cape May.

Wind here. Cape May sits in an Atlantic and Delaware Bay coast area, which works out to roughly 125 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 whole of Cape May is a National Historic Landmark district, and that governs the job before the engineering does. Exterior work goes to the Historic Preservation Commission for a certificate of appropriateness, and that has to be in hand before a building permit is issued, so we prepare the drawings for the application as part of the quote. On the wind side the town has the Atlantic on one side and Delaware Bay round the corner, and it sizes to around 125 mph, at the top of the range for the state. Salt exposure here is as hard as anywhere we work, so anodized finishes and stainless hardware are the default rather than the upgrade. Foundations go into beach sand, which takes a wider footing than clay for the same pole.

Most of the people who call us from Cape May are hotels, inns and guest houses, restaurants and Washington Street retail, municipal and beach patrol facilities, marinas and fishing operations, churches and shore homes.