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20'-25' flag pole for residential

Posted on 3/20/25 at 12:11 pm
Posted by AutoYes_Clown
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Oct 2012
5341 posts
Posted on 3/20/25 at 12:11 pm
Im looking to put up a 20' or 25' flag pole this year. What are some recommendations including install? It would be in the yard so I plan on having some sort of sonotube/pvc formed concrete base.
This post was edited on 3/20/25 at 2:04 pm
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
19394 posts
Posted on 3/20/25 at 12:40 pm to
I put one up for my now late father-in-law about 15 years ago and used a 20 ft. piece of thick walled galvanized pipe. I dug out a hole 3 ft. deep and about 1 ft. around, set up the pole in the hole and poured concrete to fill the hole and made sure to let it come up about 3 inches above ground level.

I leveled the pole and then sloped the cement away from the pole so there was no chance water would hold at the pole's base. His first pole was cemented in the ground but he didn't run it up above the ground and it eventually rotted and fell over due to water rusting the base away.
Posted by dltigers3
Collierville, TN
Member since Jun 2010
2198 posts
Posted on 3/21/25 at 6:39 pm to
I spent several years installing flagpole. We always had a galvanized sleeve that we set in concrete. Then put the flagpole in the sleeve and Leveled it with wooden wedges. We used play sand to fill the void around the pole.

If you place aluminum directly in concrete, eventual the concrete will eat away and the pole will fall
Posted by WhiteMandingo
Member since Jan 2016
7452 posts
Posted on 3/23/25 at 10:11 pm to
I used a 3foot long piece of 3 pvc pipe buried it down and installed 2 bags of concrete around it leveled the pipe leaving 3inches exposed once set up i installed a a 2.5 inch aluminum flag pole from Amazon it is 25 foot tall. It is the telescoping type .
It has not moved and looks great.
Posted by Fraid Knot
Lafayette, LA
Member since Jul 2019
168 posts
Posted on 3/24/25 at 3:58 pm to
I purchased a 25 ft aluminum flag pole from these guys LINK a few years back. Truck shipped to my door. Comes with a pvc ground sleeve. Dug hole per their instructions and concreted the sleeve. I called them prior to purchase and they were very helpful.
Posted by Stexas
SWLA
Member since May 2013
6844 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 7:52 am to
You dropped a cool grand on a flag pole?!? Dang, I had no idea those things were so expensive!
Posted by Fraid Knot
Lafayette, LA
Member since Jul 2019
168 posts
Posted on 3/25/25 at 9:10 am to
It was 650ish pre covid. Based on the new prices, covid must have affected the flag pole industry as well.
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