Flagpole installation inPortland, ME

Flagpoles in Portland

The largest city in Maine and its business centre, with a working fish pier and the Casco Bay ferry terminal at the bottom of the hill and offices, hotels and a hospital campus stacked above them. We cover Portland and the Cumberland County area, including the Old Port and Commercial Street, the Portland Fish Pier and the Casco Bay ferry terminal, Congress Street, Munjoy Hill and the Eastern Promenade, the Western Promenade, Bayside, Thompson's Point and the Maine Medical Center campus.

Wind here. Portland sits in an urban and harbour-exposed area, which works out to roughly 110 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. Ask about the ground first in Portland. Under the low parts of the city you are usually into the Presumpscot Formation, the soft blue-grey marine clay the sea left across southern Maine at the end of the ice. It holds water and it loses strength when it is disturbed, which is why the Maine Geological Survey maps landslide risk on it, so a footing sitting on it gets designed rather than taken off a table. Review is the other half of the job. A good deal of the peninsula falls inside one of the city's historic districts, and exterior work in one needs a Certificate of Appropriateness: small items are signed off by Planning staff, anything larger goes to the Historic Preservation Board, and Permitting and Inspections issues nothing until that is in hand. Commercial Street and the wharves have open water in front of them and are sized as open exposure, and the promenades are no more sheltered than the harbour below them.

Most of the people who call us from Portland are hotels and offices downtown, marine businesses and pier tenants, hospitals and university buildings, churches and funeral homes, brick storefronts along Congress Street, and condominium associations up on the promenades.