Flagpole installation inTwin Falls, ID

Flagpoles in Twin Falls

The commercial centre of the Magic Valley: dairy and food processing, a community college, a regional hospital and a retail strip that pulls in the farm country around it. We cover Twin Falls and the Twin Falls County area, including downtown Main Avenue, the Blue Lakes Boulevard corridor, the College of Southern Idaho campus, the Snake River Canyon rim and the Perrine Bridge, Shoshone Falls and the dairy and food plants on the edge of town.

Wind here. Twin Falls sits in a canyon-rim, sheltered inland 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. Twin Falls prints the whole criteria sheet and two lines on it reach a flagpole. Wind is 115 mph gust, sheltered in town and open where the ground clears, and the ground snow load is 15 pounds a square foot, the lightest figure on this page, though the city amends the code upward so that no roof is designed under 25 pounds anyway. The winter design temperature is 2 degrees, footings go 24 inches down and the assumed bearing is 1,500 pounds without a soils report. The rim is the local exception to all of it. The Perrine Bridge deck stands 486 ft above the river, which gives you the scale of that edge; the wind standard treats an edge like it as an escarpment and adds a speed-up over the top, so we size rim frontage as open ground even where the town behind it is sheltered.

Most of the people who call us from Twin Falls are dairy and food processing plants, distribution buildings, hospitals and clinics, school and college buildings, churches, car dealerships, city and county facilities and canyon-rim hotels.