Flagpole installation inErie, PA

Flagpoles in Erie

Pennsylvania on the Great Lakes: a bayfront port city with insurance, manufacturing, hospitals and several college campuses behind it. We cover Erie and the Erie County area, including the Bayfront and Dobbins Landing, downtown State Street, Presque Isle State Park, Gannon and Mercyhurst, Penn State Behrend, the Peach Street corridor and the Port of Erie.

Wind here. Erie sits in a Lake Erie shoreline 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. Wind is the smaller problem in Erie. The figure is the same 115 mph as the rest of the state, but the winter is not: roughly a hundred inches of snow in an average year, and freezing spray off the bay. Ice is what actually breaks things here, loading the flag, the rope and the pulley at the top of the pole all at once, so we specify stainless hardware, and on anything unsupervised an internal halyard behind a locking door rather than a cleat that has to be worked with cold hands. Bayfront and Presque Isle sites get sized as open exposure, because there is nothing at all between them and the lake. Footings go deeper here than in the southeast of the state as well, and the municipality sets that depth, so we confirm it before quoting the concrete.

Most of the people who call us from Erie are municipal and county buildings, hospitals and medical offices, university and school buildings, manufacturers and port operations, veterans posts, churches and lakefront properties.