Flagpole installation inMontgomery, AL

Flagpoles in Montgomery

The state capital: government offices and courts, an air force base with the Air University on it, a state university, and a vehicle assembly plant on the southern edge of town. We cover Montgomery and the Montgomery County area, including the Alabama State Capitol up on Goat Hill and the agency buildings around it, Dexter Avenue, the riverfront, Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Annex, Alabama State University, Old Cloverdale, the Garden District, Cottage Hill and the Eastern Boulevard and EastChase corridor.

Wind here. Montgomery sits in an inland, Black Belt prairie 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. The wind figure is the easy half of a Montgomery job. The ground is the other half. The city sits at the eastern end of the Black Belt, where prairie clay swells wet and cracks dry over the chalk beneath it, so the footing is sized from what the auger actually brings up and not from a table. Exterior work in Old Cloverdale, the Garden District and the other historic districts needs a certificate of appropriateness from the Architectural Review Board, and that has to come before the building permit. Maxwell, Gunter and the contractors around them normally ask for domestic-content documentation with the submittals, and that part is straightforward: the poles are American-made and the certification travels with the order.

Most of the people who call us from Montgomery are state and county buildings, courts, defence contractors and base-adjacent offices, university and school campuses, churches, veterans posts and downtown offices.