Flagpole installation inRacine, WI

Flagpoles in Racine

A manufacturing city at the mouth of the Root River twenty-odd miles south of Milwaukee, with a deep bench of machine, tool and appliance plants and a harbour front rebuilt around a marina. We cover Racine and the Racine County area, including the Old Main Street historic district and downtown, the Root River and the harbour and marina front, the Johnson Wax administration building and Research Tower, Wingspread out at Wind Point, the Gateway Technical College lakefront campus, and the industrial corridors through Mount Pleasant and Sturtevant.

Wind here. Racine sits in an exposed harbour-mouth area, which works out to roughly 105 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. Exterior work in Racine goes to the Planning, Heritage and Design Commission, which issues the certificate of appropriateness on designated landmarks and in the local districts, and the city's building inspection staff issue the permit after that. Taken in that order nothing stalls. The harbour is the exposure problem. The Root River opens straight into Lake Michigan, and the whole front from the marina up to Wind Point has water in front of it and no shelter at all, so an anodized finish with stainless fittings is where we begin down there rather than where we end up. There is a scale problem on that front too, because the Wind Point light stands 108 ft at the north end of the harbour and is what the eye measures everything else against. Inland through Mount Pleasant and Sturtevant it is flat industrial ground and the work is straightforward.

Most of the people who call us from Racine are machine shops and manufacturers, marina and harbour operators, city and county buildings, hospitals and clinics, schools and parishes, funeral homes, veterans posts and downtown businesses.