At Big Easy Flooring we install, repair and refinish floors in Madisonville and across St Tammany Parish, on the Tchefuncte River near the lake. Contact us and we will measure the rooms and price the job.
Madisonville sits on the Tchefuncte River just back from the lake, and plenty of its housing is raised for good reason.
A raised house with a ventilated crawl space is a different flooring problem from a slab, and usually a more forgiving one for wood. The subfloor breathes with the season, which is what solid board wants.
It also means the crawl space is part of the survey. A floor above a damp, poorly ventilated space will tell you about it within a year.
Six materials, and what each one does in a Madisonville house. A town built beside a river has more raised housing than most, and that changes the answer.
Madisonville's raised housing suits solid board better than a slab does, and often there is an original floor worth saving.
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For rooms that have taken water before, or anywhere the subfloor reading says be careful.
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Kitchens, baths and the rooms nearest the water. It does not mind standing water or repeated mopping.
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Bedrooms and upstairs rooms, well away from anything that floods.
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Entry halls and sunrooms, chosen for the room rather than from a photograph.
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Garages, workshops and boat stores, where a seamless floor is the easy one to clean.
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In a house that has taken water at some point, what matters is what is under the floor as much as what is on it.
We check the subfloor before quoting rather than laying a new floor over an old problem. Sometimes that changes the recommendation, and occasionally it changes the price, but it is better found now than in two years.
Where boards are sound, refinishing keeps the floor the house already has, and in an older Madisonville house that floor is often better than anything you could buy to replace it.
Where they are not, we will say so plainly rather than sand something that is past it. Cupped, rotted or already sanded too far are all honest reasons to replace.
We come out, measure the rooms, look at the subfloor and the crawl space, and then write the quote down. A verbal number is not a quote.
The preparation is priced into it: leveling, moisture treatment and lifting the old floor where that is needed.
Material is ordered, acclimated on site, and laid by our own team, with the same crew through every phase of the job.
What a floor costs in Madisonville depends far more on what the rooms are sitting on than on the postcode.
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 much of the north shore is raised. It suits solid board well.
Sometimes. It depends how far it went and what the subfloor did. We will look and tell you honestly.
Yes, on a raised house it is part of the survey. A damp crawl space changes what should go above it.
Yes, we publish a service page for it because we work there.
Always. A verbal number is not a quote.
Where the boards are thick enough to take another sanding, yes, and it is usually the better value.
A free on-site measure, a written quote, and a straight answer about what suits the rooms. Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 6 PM.
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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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