Flagpole installation inSpokane, WA

Flagpoles in Spokane

The commercial capital of the Inland Northwest, with a compact downtown, a large medical and university district, and farming and aerospace country in every direction around it. We cover Spokane and the Spokane County area, including downtown and Riverfront Park, the University District and Gonzaga University, the South Hill, Kendall Yards, Spokane International Airport, Fairchild Air Force Base and the Spokane Valley industrial corridor.

Wind here. Spokane sits in a dry, cold inland 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. Spokane is a different country from the west side, and the ground says so first. The city stands on the gravel, cobble and boulder beds the Ice Age floods left behind, which are also the aquifer it drinks from, so an auger can meet a boulder at three feet and a hole gets priced after somebody has looked at the soil. The city also writes its own design table, and it asks for more than the national map does: a design wind speed of 110 mph, footings 24 inches below grade, and ground snow at 39 pounds per square foot. Those are the numbers we size a Spokane pole to. Winter does the rest. A rope that is wet, then frozen, then wet again wears out fast, which is what stainless fittings and a good halyard are for, and the dry summer fades a flag quickly on this side of the mountains, so a spare is sensible rather than extravagant.

Most of the people who call us from Spokane are hospitals and clinics, universities and school districts, veterans posts, banks and law offices, farms and grain operations, and city and county facilities.