Flagpole installation inVancouver, WA

Flagpoles in Vancouver

The Washington half of the Portland metro: a fast-growing office, medical and distribution city on the north bank of the Columbia. We cover Vancouver and the Clark County area, including downtown and the Vancouver Waterfront, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site and Officers' Row, the Columbia Tech Center, Salmon Creek and the WSU Vancouver campus, Hazel Dell, Orchards and the I-5 and SR-14 corridors.

Wind here. Vancouver sits in a mild, Gorge-influenced area, which works out to roughly 95 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. Vancouver's difficult weather comes out of the Columbia River Gorge, not off the ocean. Several times a winter an east wind pours down the Gorge and reaches Clark County cold, often with freezing rain behind it, and people here still call the result a silver thaw. That is why we talk about hardware before we talk about shafts: ice on a rope and a pulley does more in one night than a whole wet season does. The other Vancouver particular is the fort. Fort Vancouver itself is National Park Service ground, while Officers' Row beside it is a National Register district the city and the Historic Trust look after, so which desk answers a question about height and placement depends on which side of the parade ground you are standing on. Clark County soil is generally easy to dig, and at 95 mph the shaft is the easy part of this job.

Most of the people who call us from Vancouver are medical offices and clinics, distribution and light industrial buildings, car dealerships, schools and churches, hotels, and city and county facilities.