Flagpole installation inHouma, LA

Flagpoles in Houma

The oilfield service and shipbuilding centre of the bayou parishes, with the parish government, the hospitals and a downtown all strung along Bayou Terrebonne. We cover Houma and the Terrebonne Parish area, including downtown Houma and Bayou Terrebonne, Main Street, the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, the Port of Terrebonne on the Houma Navigation Canal, Southdown, the yards along the Intracoastal Waterway and the Bayou Cane commercial strip.

Wind here. Houma sits in a low, open and delta-flat 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. Houma carries the highest design wind figure of any city we cover in this state, and it is the wrong place to buy a pole you mean to improve on later. About 150 mph at Houma is the top of every flag-flying wind rating Eder publishes, and it does not stop there: run down the bayou to Chauvin, Dulac and Cocodrie and it is roughly 155 to 160. At and above that figure nothing here is sold as passing a code. The adopted number for the address is checked, and then the shaft, the footing and the flag size are worked out together for that one spot. Underneath is the other half of it, soft delta clay and organic muck over a high water table on ground that is still sinking, so the hole usually goes deeper than the height alone would ask. Tell us early if the spot sits on a levee, or on a drainage servitude, the strip the parish keeps the right to dig in, because that decides where the pole can go at all. Salt and constant damp finish the argument for an anodized shaft and stainless hardware.

Most of the people who call us from Houma are oilfield service and marine companies, shipyards and fabrication shops, parish buildings and schools, hospitals and clinics, churches, veterans posts and Bayou Cane commercial frontage.