Flagpole installation inSeattle, WA

Flagpoles in Seattle

The commercial centre of the Northwest: a dense downtown of towers, a working container port, an industrial belt south of the stadiums and a very large hospital and university base. We cover Seattle and the King County area, including downtown and the central waterfront, Pioneer Square, South Lake Union, Belltown, Capitol Hill, the University of Washington campus, SODO and the stadium district, Ballard, Interbay and the Duwamish industrial corridor.

Wind here. Seattle sits in a wet, seismically active urban area, which works out to roughly 100 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. Seattle's building department maps environmentally critical areas, and the layer that decides a flagpole is liquefaction: SODO, Interbay, Pioneer Square and the Duwamish flats all sit inside it, because all of that ground is fill laid over old tideland. On those addresses the footing is a soils question before it is a flagpole question, and the city expects it answered on paper. Pioneer Square is a preservation district with a board of its own, so height, placement and finish are settled there before anything is dug. Up on the hills the problem reverses: the glacial till under Queen Anne and Capitol Hill is dense enough to argue with an auger, slow to open and then excellent to stand a pole in.

Most of the people who call us from Seattle are hotels and office towers, hospitals and clinics, university and school buildings, terminal and maritime operators, warehouses and breweries south of downtown, and apartment and condominium boards.