The short answer
An entry-level aluminium pole for the garden starts at £66.50. A glassfibre pole, which is what we’d recommend for most people, runs from £293.95 for a 6m to £682.50 for a 12m. Installation is separate and depends entirely on your site.
Below is the detail behind those numbers, what you get for the money at each level, and what actually drives the cost of getting a pole into the ground.
Entry Level
The NOV aluminium flagpole
If you want a flagpole without a large outlay, the NOV is where to start. It’s our entry-level system, made from lightweight aluminium and supplied as a complete kit: pole, dome top or gold finial, halyard, cleat and ground socket. Everything you need to start flying flags.
Available from 3m to 6m, from £66.50.
It’s designed for lighter printed and novelty flags rather than heavy woven ones, and it’s straightforward enough for most people to install themselves. If you want a flag in the garden this weekend without overthinking it, this is the pole.
One practical detail worth knowing: our 6m NOV is built to a 6m total length, sitting 50cm in the ground and standing 5.5m above it. That keeps it under the threshold where delivery needs a dedicated vehicle, which saves you a significant charge.
The one we’d recommend
Glassfibre
Glassfibre is our most popular flagpole, and it’s the range we’d point most people towards whether the pole is going outside a factory, a town hall or a family home.
Shorter poles start from £262.50, and we supply non-standard heights on request.
You’ll notice the step up at 10m. That isn’t arbitrary. Above 8m the engineering changes, with a heavier construction needed to handle the loads involved. It’s worth knowing before you settle on a height, because the jump from 8m to 10m costs considerably more than the jump from 10m to 12m.
| Height | External halyard |
Internal halyard |
| 6m | £293.95 | £398.95 |
| 8m | £388.50 | £461.95 |
| 10m | £619.50 | £692.95 |
| 12m | £682.50 | £787.50 |
Why glassfibre is worth the step up
It’s stronger than aluminium.
Our poles are made from glassfibre matt and polyester resin with a thicker conical wall and a wider taper. Properly installed, they’ll withstand winds up to 100mph without a flag flying.
It’s built to last.
There’s no powder coating to chip and no metal to corrode. The UV-resistant marine-grade gel coat holds its gloss for years.
It’s a single piece.
No sections, no joints, no visible seams, just a clean unbroken taper from base to finial. It’s the difference between a pole that looks like equipment and one that looks like part of the building.
White is standard. However, RAL colours are available on request.
For a home installation, a 6m glassfibre at £293.95 gives you something that will still look right in fifteen years and won’t need touching in between. If you’re flying a flag you care about, in a spot you look at every day, it’s worth the difference over the entry-level pole.
Internal or external halyard?
An external halyard is the traditional arrangement, with the rope on the outside tied off at a cleat. It’s simple, cheaper, and easy for anyone to operate.
An internal halyard runs the rope inside the pole, with the cleat behind a locking door at the base. It adds between £73.45 and £105 depending on height, and it buys you two things.
The first is security. It’s an anti-vandal system, which matters on schools, public buildings and anywhere unsupervised out of hours.
The second is quiet. No rope slapping against the pole on a windy night. That’s a more common complaint than people expect, and it’s the reason a lot of domestic customers choose internal once they know it’s an option.
Bath Rugby Club’s newly installed cleat and external halyard
Delivery
Poles up to 6m go by standard courier. Anything longer needs a dedicated vehicle, priced according to your location. A 12m pole is a genuinely awkward thing to transport, and the cost depends on where you are and what the access is like at the other end.
Installation: what actually drives the cost
This is the part that varies most, and any supplier who quotes a firm price without seeing your site is guessing.
Rather than give you an average that would mislead you, here’s what moves the number. Read down this list and you’ll have a good sense of whether your project sits at the simple end or the complicated one.
Ground conditions.
A pole going into soft ground on an open site is straightforward. The same pole going into concrete hardstanding means breaking out, disposing of the spoil and making good afterwards, which is a different job entirely.
What’s underneath.
Every installation needs a survey for buried services. Finding a cable or a drain where the foundation needs to go changes the design, and sometimes the position.
Access.
Can a vehicle reach the location? Is there room to manoeuvre a pole that may be twelve metres long? Town centre and courtyard sites often need out-of-hours working or specialist lifting equipment.
Height and foundation size.
Foundations scale with the pole. A 12m pole needs a substantially larger and deeper base than a 6m one, meaning more excavation, more concrete and more time on site.
Number of poles.
Multi-pole installations cost less per pole than a single one, because the mobilisation is the same whether we install one or five.
Site sensitivity.
Listed buildings, conservation areas, schools during term time and operational sites all bring constraints, on method or timing or both.
Making good.
Reinstating tarmac, block paving or turf to a standard you’re happy with is a real cost, and an easy one to forget when budgeting.
The practical upshot: a single 6m pole into a grass verge on an accessible site sits at the simple end. A 12m pole into hardstanding in a town centre, worked out of hours around live services, sits at the other. Tell us your location, your ground type and your access when you get in touch and we can usually give you a realistic figure quickly.
Interested in professional installation?
Give us a call on 02392 237130 or drop us an email and we will be happy to discuss your requirements and provide a quote. We install flagpoles across the UK and take care of everything from groundworks through to final commissioning.
Custom and bespoke projects
Not every project fits a standard pole. We regularly produce bespoke flagpoles for civic schemes, heritage sites, memorials and landmark commercial buildings: non-standard heights, specific finishes, rigged and stayed poles, and designs developed around a particular architectural context.
Custom poles start from around £500 and run into several thousand. That’s a wide range because it’s genuinely a wide category. A slightly non-standard height in a specified RAL colour sits near the bottom of it. A tall rigged pole engineered for an exposed landmark site sits a long way above.
If your project doesn’t fit a catalogue product, it’s worth a conversation early. Specifying a bespoke pole at design stage is far cheaper than adapting one later.
Old Alresford House with Flag Pole
The costs people forget
Flags.
The pole is a one-off. The flag isn’t. A flag flown continuously in an exposed position won’t last as long as one on a sheltered site, and most sites budget for replacements.
Servicing.
An annual inspection keeps the pole safe and catches wear before it becomes failure. On any public-facing site this is part of your duty of care as the operator.
Base covers and accessories.
A base cover finishes the installation neatly and protects the fixings. Halyards, finials and fittings are all replaceable over the pole’s life.
In summary
The NOV aluminium kit starts at £66.50 and is the affordable way to get a flag flying. Glassfibre runs from £293.95 for a 6m to £682.50 for a 12m, and it’s the pole we’d recommend for anyone who wants something that lasts and looks the part, at home or at work. Bespoke projects start around £600 and go up from there.
Installation is the genuine variable, but the factors above should tell you roughly where your project sits before you pick up the phone.
Prices correct as of 28.07.2026 and exclude VAT and delivery. For a firm quotation on supply and installation, get in touch and tell us your location, ground type and access, and we’ll come back to you quickly.