At Big Easy Flooring we floor schools and classrooms across New Orleans and the surrounding parishes. Contact us and we will walk the space, measure it and price the work.
A school corridor sees more feet in a week than most homes see in a year. The floor has to take that, clean easily, and stay quiet enough that a classroom next door is not listening to it.
Entrances take the worst of it. Wet shoes and grit arrive twice a day in volume, and a floor that cannot handle that wears out at the door long before the corridor.
Durability and acoustics pull in opposite directions, which is why the build-up under the floor gets as much thought as the surface.
Four systems for a building that takes a year of traffic in a term, and the reason each one belongs where it does.
Classrooms and corridors, hard wearing, easy to clean and quick to lay inside a holiday window.
More on welded sheet vinylWorkshops, plant rooms and anywhere the floor takes more than footfall.
More on seamless resinLibraries, offices and quiet rooms, where acoustics matter more than washability.
More on contract carpetEntrances, cloakrooms and washrooms, taking wet shoes and grit every morning.
More on tileSchool work fits the holidays, and holidays do not move. That means the schedule is built backwards from the return date, including every cure time, before anything is lifted.
We are honest at the survey about what fits in the window you have. It is better to phase across two holidays than to hand back a floor that has not cured.
Where a block can be released early, that usually buys more than adding people to the job.
Footfall noise carries in a school, particularly in a corridor above a classroom, and it is the complaint that arrives first.
What goes under the floor changes that more than the surface does. An acoustic layer in the right corridor is worth more than a heavier wear layer everywhere.
The substrate, the existing floor, the access route and the release dates. On a school the release dates usually shape the price more than the material does.
On a slab we take a moisture reading. In a corridor we look at what is already down and whether it comes up.
The quote goes in writing, block by block, with the preparation and the phasing priced in.
A school job prices on access and program as much as on area.
We will not quote a rate over the phone, because a rate without a measure is a guess with a number on it. We come out, measure, test what needs testing and put it in writing.
Yes, and for most schools that is the only workable window.
Something hard wearing and easy to clean, with the acoustic build-up considered underneath.
Hall floors are specialist. Tell us what the space is used for and we will be straight about whether it suits us.
Yes. Phasing is normal on a school site.
We will tell you at the survey and phase it, rather than hand back a floor that has not cured.
Yes, and they are worth specifying separately. They take the worst wear in the building.
A free on-site visit, a written quote, and a schedule built around the hours you actually have. Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 6 PM.
Hi there, how can we help?
Call us Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 6 PM, or send the details and we will be in touch to book the free on-site measure.
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