Flagpole installation inScranton, PA

Flagpoles in Scranton

The commercial centre of northeastern Pennsylvania, built on anthracite and now running on hospitals, universities, distribution and county government. We cover Scranton and the Lackawanna County area, including Courthouse Square and Lackawanna Avenue, Steamtown, the University of Scranton, Marywood University, Dunmore, Montage Mountain and the I-81 and I-476 distribution corridor.

Wind here. Scranton sits in an inland, anthracite valley 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. What makes Scranton different is underneath it. The city sits over worked-out anthracite mines, the maps of those workings are incomplete, and subsidence here is a live issue rather than a historical one. We check the state mine mapping for the address before committing to a foundation, and on an undermined parcel the footing gets designed rather than taken from a table. Above ground it is straightforward: the same 115 mph as the rest of the state on the valley floor, though the ridges either side of the Lackawanna do not behave like the floor, and those get checked one by one. Exterior work in the city historic district goes to the Historical Architecture Review Board first.

Most of the people who call us from Scranton are county and municipal buildings, universities and schools, hospitals, distribution and warehouse operations, veterans posts, churches and downtown commercial.