Flagpole installation inColumbus, OH

Flagpoles in Columbus

The seat of state government, a university campus the size of a town, and a distribution industry built around the freight corridor south of the city. We cover Columbus and the Franklin County area, including the Statehouse and Capitol Square, the Short North, German Village, Victorian Village, Italian Village and the Brewery District, the Ohio State University campus, the Arena District, Easton and Polaris, and the Rickenbacker freight corridor.

Wind here. Columbus sits in an inland, flat and open 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. Columbus runs a set of separate architectural review commissions — German Village, Victorian Village, Italian Village, the Brewery District and the citywide Historic Resource Commission — and exterior work inside any of their districts wants a certificate of appropriateness in hand before the building permit is written. Capitol Square is not the city's to decide at all. The Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board approves what goes on the capitol grounds, monuments and sculpture included, so a pole on that block starts with the board rather than with Building and Zoning Services. Under the grass, Franklin County is glacial till: a dense clay that holds a footing beautifully and augers slowly, which shows up in the labour rather than in the pole. Out at Rickenbacker there is nothing upwind for a mile in any direction, so those sites get sized as open ground whatever the street address suggests.

Most of the people who call us from Columbus are state agencies and Franklin County buildings, university and school district facilities, insurance and corporate offices, distribution operators, churches, veterans posts and downtown hotels.