Flagpole installation inCharleston, SC

Flagpoles in Charleston

A port and tourism city on a low peninsula, thick with hotels, restaurants, offices and historic property, and nearly all of it under design review. We cover Charleston and the Charleston County area, including the Old and Historic District, King and Broad Street, the Battery, Marion Square, Upper King, the College of Charleston, The Citadel, the medical district, Daniel Island, West Ashley and James Island.

Wind here. Charleston sits in a Lowcountry coast area, which works out to roughly 145 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 Board of Architectural Review has looked at exterior work in the Old and Historic District since 1931, so height, placement and finish here get decided in a meeting rather than on site. Peninsula buildings often have no setback to put a pole in, and the answer is frequently an outrigger, which is a pole angled out from the wall rather than set in the ground. The ground is the other problem: much of the lower peninsula is fill over marsh with the water table close to the surface, so the foundation gets designed rather than augered. Salt reaches everything, so we quote anodized finishes and stainless or bronze hardware rather than plated. At around 145 mph the design figure sits within a few mph of the top of what Eder publishes for a flag flying, so we size every Charleston address against the adopted number and never present a stock pole as passing the code.

Most of the people who call us from Charleston are hotels and inns, restaurants, law and brokerage offices, churches, private schools, college and hospital buildings, and historic-district homeowners.