Flagpole installation inGrand Junction, CO

Flagpoles in Grand Junction

The commercial centre of the Western Slope: a valley town of hospitals, energy services, orchards and a state university. We cover Grand Junction and the Mesa County area, including downtown Main Street and its outdoor sculpture, Colorado Mesa University, the hospital and veterans medical district, Horizon Drive, the Redlands, Orchard Mesa and the orchards and vineyards out toward Palisade.

Wind here. Grand Junction sits in a dry, sheltered and sun-hard 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 not what decides a flagpole in the Grand Valley. The figure is about 115 mph, as gentle as Colorado gets, and the ground takes the difficulty back. The valley floor is weathered Mancos Shale: clay that swells when it is wetted, that can settle under load once it is saturated, and that carries enough salt in it to be hard on anything buried. Irrigation is usually what wets it, so on orchard, vineyard and landscaped ground we look at where the water runs before the footing is settled, and we specify stainless hardware rather than plated. The other Western Slope constant is light. At about 4,650 ft the sun chalks a mill finish faster than the same afternoon would at sea level, which is why anodized comes up in nearly every conversation out here.

Most of the people who call us from Grand Junction are hospitals and clinics, university and school buildings, energy and equipment yards, wineries and orchard operations, city facilities, dealership frontage and churches.