Flagpole installation inGary, IN

Flagpoles in Gary

A lakefront steel city at the bottom of Lake Michigan, twenty-five miles from Chicago, with a working industrial shore and the western end of a national park inside the city limits. We cover Gary and the Lake County area, including Miller Beach and Marquette Park, the Miller Woods end of Indiana Dunes National Park, the lakefront mill and Grand Calumet corridor, Broadway and the downtown blocks, Glen Park, and the Gary/Chicago International Airport district.

Wind here. Gary sits in a lakefront, sandy 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. Gary is fresh water, and that changes the shopping list. There is no salt here, so a satin mill finish behaves the way it would inland, and the case for anodizing is blowing sand and industrial fallout rather than chloride. The exposure is where the money goes: the city faces north up the whole length of Lake Michigan with nothing between the shore and the water, so Miller Beach frontage and the lakefront plant sites are sized as fully exposed, which a flat 115 mph on its own would not tell you. Under a foot of topsoil the ground is close to pure sand, the old bed of glacial Lake Chicago, and sand wants a wider footing than clay does to carry the same pole. On the beach itself the sand moves, so the footing goes below the working layer rather than into it.

Most of the people who call us from Gary are industrial and plant properties, municipal buildings and county facilities, hospitals and clinics, churches, schools, veterans posts and lakefront homes in Miller.