Flagpole installation inNewport, RI

Flagpoles in Newport

A resort and naval city at the south end of Aquidneck Island, where hotels, restaurants and yacht clubs share the ground with Naval Station Newport and the Naval War College. We cover Newport and the Newport County area, including Bellevue Avenue and the mansions, Ocean Drive, Thames Street and Bowen's Wharf, Washington Square, Historic Hill, the Point, the Fifth Ward, Fort Adams, Salve Regina University and the naval station.

Wind here. Newport sits in an ocean-exposed 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. Three of Newport's districts are National Historic Landmarks, and the city has run a Historic District Commission over exterior work since 1965, so height, placement and finish are settled in a meeting here before a permit exists rather than on site. Newport also sits a whisker over the 130 mph line at which the code starts treating the mile of ground inland of mean high water as a wind-borne debris region, and on a peninsula this narrow that strip is most of the city. Eder rates a pole for flying a flag on a different measurement from the gust figure in a code, so the two are not interchangeable: we work to the number adopted for your address rather than reading a rating off a chart and calling it compliance. Ocean Drive, the Fifth Ward and the harbour front have nothing at all between them and open water, and plated fittings will not last on that side of town; anodized shafts with stainless or bronze hardware are where we start. Aquidneck Island is five miles wide, so very little of Newport counts as sheltered, and the Thames Street wharves are sheltered from the view rather than from the weather.

Most of the people who call us from Newport are hotels and inns, restaurants and wharf retail, yacht clubs and marinas, churches, private schools and university buildings, estate and museum properties and shore homes.