Flagpole installation inLafayette, LA

Flagpoles in Lafayette

The working centre of Acadiana: oilfield and engineering offices, a big university, hospitals and a retail spine that serves the parishes around it. We cover Lafayette and the Lafayette Parish area, including downtown and Jefferson Street, the Oil Center, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the Cajundome, the Saint Streets, River Ranch, Moncus Park, Johnston Street and the Ambassador Caffery corridor.

Wind here. Lafayette sits in an inland Acadian and oak-shaded area, which works out to roughly 130 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. Lafayette runs as one consolidated city-parish government, so the ordinance, the permit and the inspection come from the same office wherever in the parish you sit. It also stands on the prairie terrace, older and firmer than the delta below it, which makes a footing here far more predictable than one at Houma or in New Orleans. The wind is the part people underestimate. About 130 mph is the figure in town, and it keeps climbing as you drop south through Broussard and Youngsville toward Vermilion Bay, so a Lafayette address and a Youngsville address are not the same shaft. Then the oaks. The canopy over the Saint Streets and the older avenues hangs low and heavy, and a branch will take a flag apart quicker than a storm will, so we mark out where the flag will actually swing before we agree a spot.

Most of the people who call us from Lafayette are oilfield service and engineering offices, hospitals and medical campuses, university and school buildings, banks, churches, retail centres along Ambassador Caffery and community associations.