Flagpole installation inDurham, NC

Flagpoles in Durham

A university and hospital city with a downtown of converted tobacco warehouses and Research Triangle Park on its doorstep. We cover Durham and the Durham County area, including Duke University and the medical centre, the American Tobacco district, Brightleaf, North Carolina Central University, Ninth Street, Southpoint and Research Triangle Park.

Wind here. Durham sits in an inland Piedmont 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. The wind figure is the statewide 115 mph, so in Durham it is the ground that decides the job. Much of the county sits on the Durham sub-basin of the Triassic belt, a band of clay that swells when it is wet and shrinks when it is dry, and a footing poured to a standard depth can move with it, so we set the foundation for the soil rather than for the height alone. Downtown, the converted tobacco buildings mostly sit on brick plazas and old industrial slabs, so send a photo of the intended spot early and we will tell you what the foundation is likely to become. Campus and Park work almost always goes in with an internal halyard, so there is no rope on the outside for anyone to reach.

Most of the people who call us from Durham are university and hospital buildings, research and laboratory campuses in the Park, converted warehouse offices downtown, schools, churches and veterans posts.