Flagpole installation inYoungstown, OH

Flagpoles in Youngstown

A steel valley now running on a university, a hospital system, county government and the auto and plastics plants strung out along the river. We cover Youngstown and the Mahoning County area, including downtown and Federal Street, Youngstown State University, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Covelli Centre, Mill Creek Park, the Mahoning River mill corridor, and Boardman, Austintown, Canfield and Poland.

Wind here. Youngstown sits in an inland, hilly and undermined 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. What makes a Youngstown site different is usually underneath it. This was coal country before it was steel country, abandoned underground workings run across Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana together, and the Department of Natural Resources keeps them on a public mine map anyone can search by address. Where a parcel turns up on it, the footing is engineered for the void underneath rather than for the load on top. Along the river the trouble is the opposite — not what is missing but what was left behind. Slag fill, old mill footings and dead services run through the ground either side of the Mahoning, and a test hole costs a great deal less than a surprise does. Above ground the sizing is ordinary and a standard wall is usually right.

Most of the people who call us from Youngstown are county and city buildings, the university and the school district, hospitals, manufacturers and warehouse operators, veterans organisations and Legion halls, churches and downtown commercial frontage.