Flagpole installation inGalveston, TX

Flagpoles in Galveston

A barrier island with a cruise port, a medical branch and a Victorian building stock, all sitting on sand a few feet above the Gulf. We cover Galveston and the Galveston County area, including the Seawall, the Strand and the East End Historic District, Pleasure Pier, the Port of Galveston cruise terminals, the UTMB medical campus, Moody Gardens and the West End.

Wind here. Galveston sits in a Gulf barrier island area, which works out to roughly 150 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. Galveston is the hardest flagpole environment in Texas and it needs the right answer from the start. The county is inside the Texas Department of Insurance designated catastrophe area, which means windstorm-certified construction and a WPI-8 certificate – the state windstorm inspection certificate – as part of the job. The design wind speed on the island is about 150 mph, at or above the highest flag-flying rating Eder publishes, so nothing here is sold against a code number off a chart; the site is engineered on its own, pole, foundation and flag size together. The ground is sand with the water table close underneath, which needs a wider and deeper footing than the same pole would take inland. Salt is constant, so anodized finish and stainless hardware, not plated. The East End and the Strand are historic districts, so allow for design review on top of all of it.

Most of the people who call us from Galveston are beachfront hotels and condominiums, Seawall and Strand restaurants and retail, hospital and university buildings, municipal facilities, marinas and rental properties.