Flagpole installation inChattanooga, TN

Flagpoles in Chattanooga

A river and manufacturing city sitting in a bend of the Tennessee, with mountains on three sides and a downtown rebuilt around the water. We cover Chattanooga and the Hamilton County area, including downtown and the Tennessee Riverwalk, the Southside and Main Street, Bluff View, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus, the Erlanger hospital blocks, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Signal Mountain, Hamilton Place and the Enterprise South industrial park.

Wind here. Chattanooga sits in an inland East Tennessee, ridge-topped 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. Chattanooga is the one place in Tennessee where the mapped figure and the real one part company for a reason you can see from the street. Lookout Mountain, Signal Mountain and Missionary Ridge all stand well above the valley floor, and the code carries a factor for wind speeding up over the brow of a ridge, so a property on one of those edges is not the 105 mph the valley reads. The ground changes on the same line: limestone down in the valley, sandstone caprock on the mountains, so a hole in the city and a hole on Signal are two different days and two different prices. Exterior work you can see from the street in the city's historic districts, St. Elmo and Fort Wood among them, goes to the Chattanooga Historic Zoning Commission before anything else. Anything on the Riverwalk or the north shore we treat as open exposure, because the river is upwind of it and nothing else is.

Most of the people who call us from Chattanooga are manufacturing and distribution plants, riverfront hotels and restaurants, hospital and university buildings, downtown offices, schools, churches and city and county facilities.