Flagpole installation inToledo, OH

Flagpoles in Toledo

A port and manufacturing city at the mouth of the Maumee, built on glass and automotive work, with a university and a large medical base behind it. We cover Toledo and the Lucas County area, including downtown and the Warehouse District, the Maumee riverfront and the Port of Toledo, the Old West End and Vistula, the Toledo Museum of Art, the University of Toledo, Ottawa Hills, Point Place and Maumee Bay.

Wind here. Toledo sits in a flat, low and poorly drained 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. Toledo stands on the bed of the old Great Black Swamp and the ground still behaves like it: heavy lake-plain clay that holds water instead of shedding it, on land with almost no fall to it. A hole that looks fine first thing can be standing in water by the afternoon, so we ask for a photograph of the spot and a word about how it drains before we price a footing. Exterior work in the historic districts, the Old West End among them, goes to the Toledo Historic District Commission for a certificate of appropriateness, and the permit waits on it. Toledo sits at the wrong end of the lake for the snowbelt and gets nothing like Cleveland's winter, but the water off Point Place and Maumee Bay is open and shallow, and a pole facing it is sized as exposed.

Most of the people who call us from Toledo are manufacturers and port operations, university and hospital buildings, school districts, city and county facilities, churches, veterans posts, car dealerships and riverfront commercial frontage.