Flagpole installation inPittsburgh, PA

Flagpoles in Pittsburgh

Three rivers, steep hillsides and a downtown triangle, with universities, hospitals and a large corporate base stacked above them. We cover Pittsburgh and the Allegheny County area, including the Golden Triangle and Grant Street, the Strip District, Oakland and the university campuses, the North Shore, the South Side, Mount Washington and the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio riverfronts.

Wind here. Pittsburgh sits in an inland, river valleys and hillsides 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. Topography decides most Pittsburgh jobs. The city has a Hillside zoning district and steep slope rules of its own, and the Pittsburgh red beds under a great many of those hillsides are a clay layer that loses strength once it is wet, which is why ground moves here. Anything on a graded slope gets its foundation designed rather than assumed. The river valleys funnel wind along their length as well, so a bank site or anything up on Mount Washington is not the sheltered case the flat state figure suggests. City-designated buildings and anything in a city historic district need a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Historic Review Commission before a permit is issued.

Most of the people who call us from Pittsburgh are corporate and professional offices downtown, universities and hospitals, city and county buildings, churches, veterans posts, and riverfront and industrial properties.