Flagpole installation inDuluth, MN

Flagpoles in Duluth

A working freshwater port and the commercial centre of northeastern Minnesota, with hospitals, a university and a tourist waterfront stacked up a hillside above Lake Superior. We cover Duluth and the St. Louis County area, including Canal Park and the Lakewalk, the Aerial Lift Bridge and the ship canal, Superior Street and the downtown core, Lincoln Park, the Miller Hill corridor, the ore docks and the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Wind here. Duluth sits in a lakefront and fully exposed 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. St. Louis County is a Zone I county under the state frost rule, so the minimum footing depth here is a full 5 ft against the 3 ft 6 in the Twin Cities work to. Then there is what is in the way of it. The Duluth Complex gabbro lies at or near the surface across much of the hillside and the ice left very little soil on top of it, so a 5 ft hole is often a rock excavation and is priced as one. Park Point is the opposite problem, a sandbar seven miles long, where the same 5 ft goes into sand and the footing has to be wider than clay would need for the same pole. The mapped figure is the same as everywhere else in Minnesota, but there is nothing between Canal Park, the Point and open water, so lakefront addresses are treated as fully exposed. The finish goes anodized and the hardware stainless, because nothing out on that shore stays dry for long. On the steeper streets, access settles the job before anything else does.

Most of the people who call us from Duluth are hospital and clinic campuses, university and school buildings, waterfront hotels and restaurants, port and marine businesses, county and city facilities, churches and veterans posts.