Flagpole installation inPortsmouth, NH

Flagpoles in Portsmouth

A working seaport that now runs on restaurants, hotels and tourism, with a deep-water port on the river and a business park out on a former air base. We cover Portsmouth and the Rockingham County area, including Market Square and the downtown historic district, Strawbery Banke, Prescott Park and the Piscataqua waterfront, the working port on Market Street, the South End, Islington Street, New Castle and Pease International Tradeport.

Wind here. Portsmouth sits in a coastal, tidal and salt-exposed 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. Nothing on the outside of a building in the downtown historic district changes without a certificate of approval from the Historic District Commission, which meets on the first Wednesday of the month and again on the second when the list runs long, so a Portsmouth job is planned around a meeting date. Under the streets the seacoast lowland is marine clay, the soft silty stuff the old brickyards here dug, and it can be a few feet deep on one lot and many times that on the next, so the footing is sized after the test hole and not before it. Salt is on everything: the Piscataqua is tidal right through town and one of the swiftest rivers in the country, and plated hardware is a false economy beside it, so we quote stainless or bronze on an anodized shaft. Out at Pease the ground is old air base apron, flat and open with nothing upwind. Eder builds its poles and its flags in the United States, which is worth knowing on federal and state work. And the Navy yard everyone calls Portsmouth is across the water on Seavey's Island in Kittery, Maine, which matters the moment a form asks which state the work is in.

Most of the people who call us from Portsmouth are hotels and inns, restaurants and downtown retail, marinas and marine businesses, offices and laboratories out at Pease, churches, city buildings and waterfront homeowners.