Flagpole installation inLouisville, KY

Flagpoles in Louisville

The largest city in the state and its business centre: Fortune 500 head offices, an air hub that works all night, bourbon warehouses along Main Street, and a hospital and university core in the middle of it. We cover Louisville and the Jefferson County area, including downtown and Whiskey Row, NuLu and the East Market District, Old Louisville, Butchertown, the Highlands, Cherokee Triangle, the University of Louisville campus, Churchill Downs, and the airport and Worldport corridor.

Wind here. Louisville sits in an inland urban, river-influenced 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. Two things sit under a Louisville job that no wind map shows. The first is the flood protection system: 26.1 miles of floodwall and earthen levee, sixteen pumping stations and close to 150 floodgates, run by MSD rather than by Metro, so anything going into a levee or floodwall easement is worth clearing with them before it is priced. The second is the rock. A worked-out limestone mine runs 75 to 100 ft under the Watterson and the zoo, and limestone dissolves, so a footing here is only as good as what is actually beneath the spot. On top of both, Old Louisville has been a preservation district since 1975 and is the largest almost entirely Victorian one in the country, and it expects a look at anything visible from those streets. Which of the three you are dealing with depends on the block, so send us the address early.

Most of the people who call us from Louisville are offices and hotels downtown, hospitals and university buildings, distilleries and warehouse operations, schools, churches, funeral homes, veterans posts and Victorian row-house conversions.