Flagpole installation inPhoenix, AZ

Flagpoles in Phoenix

The state's commercial centre: a small dense downtown, an office spine running north up Central Avenue, and mile after mile of low-rise frontage around both. We cover Phoenix and the Maricopa County area, including downtown and the Central Avenue corridor, Roosevelt Row, the Camelback and Biltmore corridor, Arcadia, the Willo, Coronado and Encanto-Palmcroft districts, Desert Ridge, Ahwatukee and the Sky Harbor district.

Wind here. Phoenix sits in a low-wind, high-sun desert area, which works out to roughly 100 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. Frost is not a consideration in Phoenix, so nothing about cold sets the depth of a hole. What the auger meets does, and what it usually meets is caliche, anywhere from a few inches to several feet of it, loose lumps in one yard and something close to rock in the next. Caliche also stops water moving through it, so a footing hole opened in monsoon season can fill and sit full, and that is worth knowing before the concrete is ordered. The city historic districts — Willo, Coronado, Encanto-Palmcroft, Roosevelt — carry a preservation overlay, and exterior work inside one needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Historic Preservation Office before the building permit follows. Downtown and along Central the ground is paved right to the line, so the spot gets agreed standing on it rather than off a site plan.

Most of the people who call us from Phoenix are downtown offices and hotels, hospitals and medical office parks, district and charter schools, churches, resorts, car dealerships, veterans posts and city buildings.