Garden flags blog: consent, poles, cloth and wind
Guides for a UK garden flag: England consent, the 4.6 metre pole line, polyester gsm and denier, washing, and when to lower a flag before a gale.
Flagpole height rules UK: measuring the 4.6 metre line
The carton says 20 ft, the Planning Portal says 4.6 metres, and you are standing in the garden with both numbers in your head. Flagpole height rules i
Flying a flag in a UK garden: what consent covers
You have a bracket, a length of pole, and a flag for Saturday, and the question is whether flying a flag in a UK garden needs permission before the cl
Football club flag trade mark: hanging a bought flag
You have a football flag in the parcel, the crest is on the cloth, and someone has told you that flying it at home is a trade mark crime. A football c
How to wash a polyester flag: follow your care line
You brought the flag in after a wet week, the fly edge looks grey, and a care article has already told you to run a 40°C cycle. How to wash a polyeste
Polyester flag fabric weight: gsm, denier and grams
Two polyester flags can look the same in a thumbnail and behave differently on a pole, because polyester flag fabric weight is doing more work than th
Single sided or double sided flag: which back to buy
You hoist a club flag, walk to the pavement, and the crest faces the road the right way. From the kitchen the letters run backwards. That reverse is w
Sports club flag planning permission: when consent fails
The flag is still folded in the packet on Friday night. You support Borussia Dortmund or Eintracht Frankfurt, and you want the cloth on a bracket besi
Flying the Union Flag at home: correct hoist corner
The flag is in your hands, the pole is on the wall, and the diagonals look almost the same until you hold the cloth still. Flying the Union Flag at ho
What size flag for a flagpole: one third, then area
The pole in the lawn is shorter than the kit photograph, and the other tab is a 3 by 5 ft flag or a hoist cloth four metres long. What size flag for a
When to take a flag down in wind: lower it in time
The flag has been up since the weekend, the forecast has turned, and the listing still says weather resistant. When to take a flag down in wind is a t