Flagpole installation inCharlotte, NC

Flagpoles in Charlotte

A banking and headquarters city with a tower-lined uptown and a county that keeps spreading outward from it. We cover Charlotte and the Mecklenburg County area, including Uptown and the four wards, South End, NoDa, Dilworth, Myers Park, SouthPark, Ballantyne, University City and the Charlotte Douglas airport district.

Wind here. Charlotte sits in an inland Piedmont, urban 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. Mecklenburg is not called out in the state wind table, so it takes the statewide 115 mph. Uptown is where that figure understates the job: the towers channel wind down at street level, so we size conservatively there and look hard at the fly zone before picking a spot. Away from uptown you are in Piedmont red clay, which holds a foundation well but swells and shrinks with the weather, and weathered rock turns up shallower than an auger likes on some sites. Fourth Ward, Dilworth, Plaza Midwood and Wesley Heights are local historic districts, so exterior work visible from the street needs a certificate of appropriateness from the Historic District Commission before a permit is issued. Uptown plazas usually sit over structured parking, which turns the foundation from an auger hole into an engineered detail.

Most of the people who call us from Charlotte are uptown banks and corporate offices, hotels, law firms, private schools, churches, medical campuses and community associations out in the south of the county.