Flagpoles for Downtown DC, at our best price — we supply the pole, sized for the local wind, and help you find the best local installer through our flagpole network.
Buying only the pole? We make it worth it: our best price, and heavy discounts on supply-only items.
Get a priceWe find the best installer near you through our flagpole network, and work it through with you until your installation is complete.
Get a priceInstalling a residential flagpole? We walk you through it, from the hole to the flag.
Get a priceBuying just the pole? We make it worth it. You get our best price and heavy discounts on supply-only items, and the pole is sized to Downtown DC’s 90 mph wind zone before it ships.
We help you find the best installer for your area. Through our flagpole network we locate the best local installer near you, and we work it through with you until your installation is complete.
Installing a residential flagpole yourself? We walk you through it: where it should go, how deep and wide to dig, setting the ground sleeve and the pole plumb, and running the rope and the flag.
Complex projects. We do install select complex flagpole projects in Washington DC ourselves. Tell us about yours and we will let you know. Our own crews supply, install and repair in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Texas.
One company and one number from your first call, (350) 305-3524 (FLAG).
30 to 40 ft for office and institutional frontage, matched to the building. Plaza and forecourt installations sometimes go higher.
The federal and commercial core, where the buildings themselves shape the wind. We cover Downtown DC and the Washington DC area, including Penn Quarter, Federal Triangle, Mount Vernon Triangle, NoMa, K Street, Franklin Square and the Mall precinct.
Wind here. Downtown DC sits in a dense urban, channelled area, which Eder’s published wind map puts in the 90 mph zone. Eder rates every pole for a wind speed with the flag flying, matched to that map, so the zone decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be. We check it against your address before we quote. Downtown is the one place where a wind map understates the problem. Tall buildings channel and accelerate wind at street level in ways the published figure does not capture, so we size conservatively here and look hard at the fly zone before picking a spot. Most downtown sites also sit over structured parking, which changes the foundation from an auger hole into an engineered detail.
Most of the people who call us from Downtown DC are federal and government-adjacent offices, law firms and associations, hotels, museums and cultural institutions.
Downtown DC is federal territory as much as city territory. The DC Department of Buildings issues permits, but projects next to federal buildings and monuments can also come under the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, and the Height Act keeps the skyline low, which leaves flags on rooftops and plazas very visible.
Most of our downtown work is on building faces, plazas and rooftops, where the base is a structural question, and on association and embassy properties. Wind channels along the wide avenues of the L’Enfant plan, so we leave more margin than the 90 mph zone alone suggests.
In Downtown DC, a 90 mph wind zone, a 25 ft flagpole rated for that wind starts at about $2,450 for the pole (Eder ECX25), and a 30 ft one at about $3,300 (Eder ECXA30), in satin aluminum. If you are buying just the pole, we make it worth it with our best price and heavy discounts on supply-only items, and we help you find the best local installer through our flagpole network. Every pole and price is on our flagpoles page.
We supply the flagpole, the flag and the parts in Downtown DC at our best price, and we help you find the best local installer for the installation or the repair through our flagpole network, then work it through with you until your installation is complete. Installing a residential pole yourself? We walk you through the installation. We do install select complex flagpole projects in Washington DC, and our own crews install and repair in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Texas.
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