Flagpole installation inWorcester, MA

Flagpoles in Worcester

The second-largest city in New England, carried by colleges and hospitals, with a downtown rebuilt around a ballpark and a market district. We cover Worcester and the Worcester County area, including the Canal District and Polar Park, Union Station and the DCU Center, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the College of the Holy Cross and Clark University, the UMass Chan Medical School campus, Elm Park, and the Crown Hill and Massachusetts Avenue historic districts.

Wind here. Worcester sits in an inland, hilly and snow-loaded 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. Winter decides more here than wind does. Worcester is listed at a 50 psf ground snow load where Boston takes 40 and New Bedford 30, so what wears a pole out in this city is ice on the rope and the pulley rather than a gust. Stainless fittings and a rope that will not swell and jam are the first things we quote, and on anything nobody wants to be up a ladder at in February the rope belongs inside the shaft behind a locking door. The city has three local historic districts — Crown Hill, Massachusetts Avenue and Montvale — and exterior work visible from the street inside them needs the Historical Commission's approval first. The 115 mph figure also describes the valley floor rather than the ridges: the airport stands 1,009 ft up on Tatnuck Hill with nothing upwind of it, and ground like that is quoted as open.

Most of the people who call us from Worcester are college and hospital buildings, city facilities and fire houses, manufacturers and machine shops, churches and parish schools, veterans posts and Canal District restaurants.