Flagpole installation inSavannah, GA

Flagpoles in Savannah

A tourism and port city built on a bluff over the Savannah River, with a National Historic Landmark district of twenty-two squares at the middle of it and the container terminals a few miles upstream. We cover Savannah and the Chatham County area, including the Historic District and its squares, River Street and Bay Street, Forsyth Park and the Victorian District, the SCAD buildings, Ardsley Park, Hutchinson Island, the Garden City terminals, Pooler, Wilmington Island and Tybee Island.

Wind here. Savannah sits in a low-lying coastal area, which works out to roughly 135 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 the Historic District takes a certificate of appropriateness, and the Historic District Board of Review decides it, with separate commissions for the districts outside it and for the county. Height and finish are agreed in that room before anything is ordered. The ground is the second job: the old town stands on a bluff about forty feet over the river, but the sand and filled marsh behind it sit close to the water table, so the foundation is drawn for the address rather than augered to a standard depth. Salt reaches everything here, which is why we specify anodized shafts and stainless or bronze hardware from the start; plated fittings do not see out their first few years this close to the water. The live oaks are the third thing. They are the reason people come, they are not being cut, and on most Savannah addresses they decide where a pole can stand before the building does.

Most of the people who call us from Savannah are hotels and inns, restaurants and tour operators, port and logistics buildings, college and hospital facilities, churches, marinas, historic-district owners and island homeowners.