Flagpole installation inPortland, OR

Flagpoles in Portland

Oregon's largest city and its commercial centre: a tight downtown on the west bank, and mile after mile of low-rise industrial and neighbourhood commercial on the east. We cover Portland and the Multnomah County area, including downtown and the South Park Blocks, the Pearl District, Old Town Chinatown, the Central Eastside industrial district, the Lloyd District, Hawthorne and Division, the OHSU campus on Marquam Hill, Portland State University and the Willamette waterfront.

Wind here. Portland sits in a sheltered inland urban 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. The tree code is the first thing to check on a Portland job, not the last. Title 11 protects a private tree of twelve inches or more through the trunk, and work inside its root protection zone goes past the city's Urban Forestry, which matters a great deal on a street with a full canopy over it. The ground argues with itself across the river: the West Hills are silt sitting on basalt, while much of the east side is old flood gravel with lava buttes pushing up through it, so the same pole is a morning's work at one address and rock at the next. Downtown and the historic districts add design review on height, placement and finish on top of that. At 100 mph the wind number is the least of it here.

Most of the people who call us from Portland are downtown offices and hotels, hospital and university buildings, Central Eastside warehouse conversions, churches and synagogues, schools, veterans posts and condominium associations.