Flagpole installation inShreveport, LA

Flagpoles in Shreveport

The business end of northwest Louisiana: a medical school and hospital cluster, riverfront casinos, a large school system and an air force base across the water. We cover Shreveport and the Caddo Parish area, including downtown and the Red River riverfront, LSU Health Shreveport, Centenary College, the Highland and Fairfield Avenue historic districts, Line Avenue, Southern Hills and Barksdale Air Force Base over in Bossier City.

Wind here. Shreveport sits in an inland, northwestern and ice-prone area, which works out to roughly 105 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. At about 105 mph Shreveport sits at the bottom of the state's range, so wind is not the first thing we size against here. Freezing rain is. This corner is the part of Louisiana that ices and the coast is the part that does not, and a glazed flag on a glazed rope puts weight where nothing else does. Stainless hardware is worth the difference here, and rope run up the inside of the pole is a great deal easier to deal with on a January morning than rope tied off outside it. A figure that gentle also means the wall thickness is rarely the argument here, and the height and the finish are. Exterior work in the Highland and Fairfield Avenue districts needs a certificate of appropriateness from the city's historic preservation commission, and that comes before the building permit rather than after it.

Most of the people who call us from Shreveport are hospitals and medical campuses, city and parish buildings, schools and colleges, churches, veterans posts, defence contractors working the Barksdale side and Line Avenue commercial frontage.