Flagpole installation inWilmington, NC

Flagpoles in Wilmington

A port and river city on the Cape Fear, with a university, a large downtown historic district and the beaches ten minutes away. We cover Wilmington and the New Hanover County area, including the downtown historic district and the Riverwalk, the Port of Wilmington, UNC Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach, Mayfaire, Autumn Hall, Market Street and the Wilmington International airport area.

Wind here. Wilmington sits in an Atlantic hurricane coast area, which works out to roughly 150 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. This is the hardest environment in North Carolina and it wants the right pole from the start rather than an upgrade later. The state wind table splits New Hanover down US 17: 140 mph west of it, 150 mph east of it, and 150 mph out on the beaches from Wrightsville and Carolina Beach round to Oak Island and Bald Head. 150 mph is the top of every flag-flying wind rating Eder publishes, so we will not tell you a stock pole passes there; the address is checked against the adopted design wind speed and the pole and its foundation are engineered for that site. Salt is constant here, so an anodized finish and stainless or bronze hardware are the default rather than the upsell, and the ground is sand over a high water table, which wants a wider footing than clay for the same shaft. Downtown sits in a local historic district, so exterior work there needs a certificate of appropriateness from the Historic Preservation Commission first.

Most of the people who call us from Wilmington are riverfront hotels and restaurants, port and marine businesses, university buildings, medical campuses, churches, rental and second-home properties and beach town municipal facilities.