Mount the flagpole in the garden

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Flagpoles in gardens are very popular. It's also great fun to show that you belong to a club or even to express your joy with a flag on a flagpole. Fortunately, these poles are easy to assemble.

Things to know about assembling a flagpole

Only buy high quality flagpoles that can cope with the wind conditions in your residential area. Poles made of wood, fiberglass or aluminum are suitable. The mast should have a device that the flags can be easily dismantled, because in a storm there should be no flag on the flagpole.

  1. Dig a hole one meter deep at the point where the mast is to be and place a box of shuttering boards around the hole, these should be approx. Reach 20 cm in height.
  2. Bend a box out of a reinforcement mat, which you use as a stabilizing frame. Place the steel mesh frame in the hole. It should end with the shuttering boards.
  3. Now close the lower opening in the ground socket with packing tape or other adhesive tape. This is important to prevent concrete from entering the pipe. Work very carefully. A concrete-filled pipe is of no use to you.
  4. Place 2 boards over the wooden box that is at the bottom hole and use a spirit level to check whether the boards are exactly horizontal. With these boards you will later fix the ground sleeve of the flagpole.
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  5. Fill the hole you dug with concrete and press the ground socket into the soft concrete between the both horizontal boards and fix the sleeve additionally with 2 boards that are at right angles to the first one stand.
  6. Use a spirit level to align the sleeve exactly vertically and allow the concrete to dry.
  7. When the concrete has set, remove the boards that held the sleeve and fill in enough concrete so that the sleeve is approx. Protrudes 5 cm from the ground.

Now you have a sturdy sleeve into which you can insert the flagpole. The mast can rotate, which is important so that the flag can align with the wind without twisting around the mast. Using this principle, you can also anchor ground sockets for a laundry spider in the ground.

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