Flagpole installation inSalt Lake City, UT

Flagpoles in Salt Lake City

The state capital and its business core, with the government, university and hospital campuses stacked on the benches east of downtown. We cover Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake County area, including Temple Square and the downtown blocks around it, the Utah State Capitol on the hill, the University of Utah and the hospital campuses above it, Sugar House, the Granary District, the Avenues and the airport corridor west of the city.

Wind here. Salt Lake City sits in a bench-and-valley urban 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. Salt Lake City sizes to about 115 mph, with exposure settled address by address rather than across the city. Two other things move a footing here more than the wind does. With no soils report the block is drawn on the code's default bearing value, 1,500 pounds per square foot in the valley clays, which makes it wider than the load alone would ask, and the frost line is 30 inches. The other is the fault. The Wasatch fault runs along the foot of the bench, so the seismic figures are pulled for the address and not for the city. East of about 1300 East the ground starts climbing onto that bench, and that is where a downslope wind out of Emigration or Parleys arrives from a direction the west side of town never feels.

Most of the people who call us from Salt Lake City are state and city buildings, university and hospital campuses, downtown offices and hotels, meetinghouses and temple grounds, schools, banks and veterans posts.