Flagpole installation inLancaster, PA

Flagpoles in Lancaster

A compact historic city ringed by some of the most productive farmland in the country, with a college, a large hospital system and steady small-town municipal work around it. We cover Lancaster and the Lancaster County area, including Penn Square and Central Market, the downtown historic district, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster General Hospital, the Route 30 corridor, Lititz, Ephrata and Strasburg.

Wind here. Lancaster sits in an inland, limestone farm country 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. Lancaster sits on limestone, and limestone dissolves. Voids open under ground that looks perfectly solid, so a flagpole foundation here is not a hole you dig to a number and fill: if the auger drops or the spoil comes up wrong, we stop and look. In the city, exterior work visible from the street inside the historic district needs a Certificate of Appropriateness, which the Historical Architectural Review Board recommends and City Council issues, so allow for a monthly meeting cycle. Out in the county the problem reverses. Farm installations have open field exposure with nothing upwind, so those are sized for open terrain whatever the flat 115 suggests.

Most of the people who call us from Lancaster are borough and township buildings, farms and agricultural operations, hospitals and medical offices, schools and churches, downtown businesses, fire companies and veterans posts.