Flagpole installation inCincinnati, OH

Flagpoles in Cincinnati

A headquarters city stacked up steep hillsides above the Ohio, with a downtown basin, a big university and street after street of nineteenth-century brick. We cover Cincinnati and the Hamilton County area, including Fountain Square and the central business district, Over-the-Rhine and Findlay Market, Mount Adams, Mount Auburn and Price Hill, Clifton, Corryville and the University of Cincinnati, Hyde Park and Oakley, and the Banks along the riverfront.

Wind here. Cincinnati sits in a hilly and steep-sided 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. Cincinnati is the one Ohio city where the ground settles more jobs than the code does. The hillsides are colluvium lying on the Kope Formation, a shale that goes slick as soon as it is wet, and landslides here are a live and expensive problem rather than a curiosity. The city maps it directly: a Hillside Overlay District is drawn where ground steeper than one in five sits on the Kope, and inside one an engineer looks at the slope before anything is dug. A pole on a hillside terrace is a geotechnical question first and a flagpole question second. Down in the basin the constraint is review instead. A certificate of appropriateness from the Historic Conservation Board comes before exterior work on a locally designated landmark or anything inside a local historic district, and Over-the-Rhine is a large one. Flat river frontage augers cleanly by comparison, and that is where the straightforward Cincinnati work is.

Most of the people who call us from Cincinnati are corporate and professional offices downtown, hospital and university buildings, breweries and restaurants, parish churches and schools, historic-district owners, hillside homeowners and river-corridor manufacturers.