Spike Base Flags in Dubai: Into the Ground, Not On Top of It
A ground spike is a steel point driven into soft ground, with a socket at the top for the pole. Spike base flags in Dubai are the most stable and least expensive option there is, and the only one that depends entirely on what is under your feet.
Quantity: 1 base · For flag type: Sail flag · Supply: Base only
An estimator replies with a firm, VAT-inclusive price and a production date.From your file to the finished job.
Six steps happen between the brief and the finished job. Here they are, in the order they happen on our floor in Dubai South.
It Beats Weight Every Time
Driven properly into grass, sand or compacted earth, a spike holds better than any surface weight of comparable cost. The ground itself is doing the work.
It Takes Almost No Space
Nothing sits on the surface, so there are no arms to trip over and nothing visible at the base of the flag. In a pedestrian area this is a genuine advantage.
Driving It In Correctly Matters
Straight, deep and ideally angled very slightly into the prevailing wind. A spike driven half way or leaning with the wind will work loose through an afternoon.
It Is Light to Carry
A spike weighs a fraction of a cross base and water tank, which transforms a job where twenty flags have to be carried across a park.
Soft Sand Is the Exception
Compacted sand holds well. Loose dry sand at the top of a beach does not, and there a wide plate with weight is more reliable.
Supplied With the Pole Set
Spikes are matched to the pole diameter and supplied with the flag kit, with a driving cap to protect the top while it is hammered in. Carry a mallet and a spare cap in the kit. A spike driven with the wrong tool deforms at the top and then will not take the pole socket cleanly. Pull every spike at the end of an event, even the ones that seem buried. A steel point left in a public lawn is a genuine hazard, and most venues will charge for recovering one found later by a mower.
The obvious constraint, stated anyway: never drive a spike without knowing what is below. Irrigation lines, cables and membranes all live just under landscaped ground, and a spike through a drip line is an expensive afternoon.
See also beach flags, cross bases, and bases and hardware.
What you get.
- For flag type
- Sail flag · Feather flag · Teardrop flag · Pole only
- Supply
- Base only · Base with printed flag
- Quantities
- 1 · 2 · 5 · 10 bases, or any other number
- Turnaround
- Usually 2–3 working days
- Proof
- A digital proof before anything prints
- Delivery
- All seven emirates, or collect from Dubai South
What every order includes
- A free prepress check on your file
- A digital proof before anything prints
- One VAT-inclusive quote with a production date
- Delivery to all seven emirates, or collection from Dubai South
Setting up your file.
- 01Work at full size or to scaleBuild the file at full size, or at a stated scale such as 1:10 when the canvas gets too big, and tell us the scale.
- 02Match resolution to distanceSomething read from a few metres away needs far less resolution than a business card. Around 100 dpi at full size is usually plenty.
- 03Tell us how it will be fixedHems, eyelets, pole pockets and frames take up material around the edge. Tell us the fixing and prepress allows for it.
- 04Send logos as vectorsAI, EPS, SVG or PDF keeps edges sharp at large sizes. Embed or outline the fonts.
Quick answers.
Grass, compacted sand and earth.
Irrigation and cables under the surface.
Yes, considerably.