Flagpole installation inWaterbury, CT

Flagpoles in Waterbury

The old Brass City: a hill town wrapped round a narrow river valley, with a formal municipal centre, college campuses and a long run of former mill land. We cover Waterbury and the New Haven County area, including the Waterbury Green and West Main Street, the Cass Gilbert municipal centre on Grand Street, the Union Station clock tower, the Hillside and Overlook districts, Library Park, Post University and UConn Waterbury, the Brass Mill Center and the Naugatuck River corridor.

Wind here. Waterbury sits in a hill-and-valley inland area, which works out to roughly 120 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. Two things decide a Waterbury job, and the wind figure is neither. The Naugatuck took the middle of the city apart in August 1955, and the Corps of Engineers rebuilt the valley afterwards with channel works, flood walls and the Thomaston dam upstream, so a site on the river side sits inside a flood control scheme and the footing is set with that in mind. Brass mill land runs the length of the same corridor, and a century of industrial fill will not take a standard auger hole and a bag of concrete. The second is winter. Ground snow is 35 pounds a square foot here against 30 on the shoreline, and ten winters of ice forming and thawing on an outside rope and pulley will cost an owner more than 120 mph of wind ever does, so stainless fittings are the spend worth making.

Most of the people who call us from Waterbury are city buildings and the courthouse, manufacturers and machine shops, schools and college buildings, hospitals, parish churches and clubs, funeral homes and downtown storefronts.