Flagpole installation inMobile, AL

Flagpoles in Mobile

A deep-water port, a shipbuilding and aircraft town, and a preserved downtown of squares and iron balconies sitting a few feet above the bay. We cover Mobile and the Mobile County area, including downtown and Government Street, the De Tonti Square, Church Street East and Oakleigh Garden historic districts, the Port of Mobile and the Austal yard, the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley, the University of South Alabama, Midtown and the Dauphin Island Parkway and Theodore corridor.

Wind here. Mobile sits in a northern Gulf coastal area, which works out to roughly 155 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. Mobile carries the highest figure of any city in the state, and the beaches below it are higher again. About 155 mph in town is past the highest flag-flying rating Eder publishes, so nothing off the shelf is offered here as passing a code: the shaft, the footing and the flag size are worked out together for the address. At that speed the county also falls inside what the code calls the wind-borne debris region. That rule is written for windows and doors rather than for flagpoles, but it tells you what sort of jurisdiction you are building in. Ground near the river and the bay is sand with the water table close under it, and a hole that starts clean can be a wet one two feet down, so the footing is designed rather than assumed and usually comes out wider than the same shaft would want inland. Salt is constant off the bay and the ship channel, so an anodized finish goes on the quote from the outset, with stainless or bronze at every fitting instead of plated. Exterior work in the local historic districts, De Tonti Square and Church Street East among them, needs a certificate of appropriateness from the Architectural Review Board, and shipyard and aerospace work usually asks for domestic-content documentation on top of that.

Most of the people who call us from Mobile are port and shipyard operations, aerospace and defence contractors, downtown offices and hotels, hospitals and university buildings, churches, restaurants and bayfront homes.