Flagpole installation inSandusky, OH

Flagpoles in Sandusky

A bay-front resort and ferry town whose season runs from spring to the end of October, with food and machinery plants working behind it all year. We cover Sandusky and the Erie County area, including the Cedar Point causeway and peninsula, the Jackson Street Pier and the Kelleys Island and Put-in-Bay ferries, downtown Columbus Avenue and Washington Park, Battery Park Marina, Sandusky Bay, and the Huron, Vermilion and Marblehead shore.

Wind here. Sandusky sits in an open, exposed and bay-fronted 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. The first question on a Sandusky waterfront job is whether the spot falls inside a Lake Erie Coastal Erosion Area. Stretches of the Ohio shore are designated, and under state law no permanent structure goes up inside one without a permit — from the Department of Natural Resources, or from the county or city where it enforces its own approved coastal erosion rules. Either way it is a separate application from the building permit and it runs on its own clock. The second question is what is under the grass. Erie County is limestone, quarried in and around Sandusky and Marblehead since the town was built, and in places it lies shallow enough that the hole has to be cut into rock instead of drilled through soil. Bay frontage has open water in front of it and freezes over most winters. The town empties out after October as well, so a pole left flying through the winter is one nobody is there to lower, and it gets specified on that basis.

Most of the people who call us from Sandusky are hotels, marinas and attractions, restaurants and downtown retail, food and machinery plants, city and county buildings, schools, churches, yacht clubs and waterfront homeowners.