Flagpole installation acrossPennsylvania

Flagpoles in Pennsylvania

Philadelphia rowhouse blocks, Pittsburgh hillsides, the Capitol complex at Harrisburg and the Lehigh Valley warehouses. Pole, foundation, flag and labour on one quote.

Wind here. Pennsylvania is close to 300 miles wide and the design wind speed barely moves across it. From the Delaware River to the Ohio line the figure is around 115 mph, and Philadelphia is the one place that writes that number into its own code rather than reading it off a map. A flat 115 is moderate, so more of the budget goes into height than into wall thickness. What the flat map hides is the rest of it: ridge and valley country through the centre and the northeast, where a gap or a ridge top does not behave like the valley floor, open lake exposure at Erie, limestone across the southeast, worked-out coal under the anthracite cities, and ice on halyard hardware all winter. Here the site decides the pole, not the map.

• The Delaware Valley and the southeast — Around 115 mph, and Philadelphia puts that 115 into its own code as a floor. Access and historic review decide these jobs, not wind.
• The Lehigh Valley and the lower Susquehanna — Around 115 mph, the same as everywhere. The limestone underneath is what decides the foundation and what the hole costs.
• The ridge-and-valley and the Alleghenies — Around 115 mph on the valley floor. Ridge tops, wind gaps and anything with a long view run higher, and those get checked address by address.
• The west and the Lake Erie shore — Around 115 mph again. Ice and snow on the rope and pulley cost you more here than wind does, so stainless hardware earns its money.

Flying the Pennsylvania flag? We sell it, sewn to the state's own design specification and sized to sit under the national flag on your pole. See the Pennsylvania flag →