At Big Easy Flooring we install, repair and refinish floors in Mandeville and across St Tammany Parish, directly on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Contact us and we will measure the rooms and price the job.
Mandeville sits right on the north shore, and being that close to open water shows up in the humidity a floor has to live with, all year and not just in August.
Wood moves with that. It does not rule wood out, but it does decide how the floor is specified, how long it acclimates and what goes underneath it.
It also means the first thing we check is not the room you want floored, it is what that room is built on and how much weather it sees.
Six materials, and what each one does in a Mandeville house. Sitting this close to open water changes the humidity a floor has to live with.
Not ruled out by the lakefront, but acclimation stops being optional and the specification has to account for the moisture.
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Handles the humidity without asking anything of the room, which is why it appears in so many lakefront houses.
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The entry hall answer here. A house near the water takes more in through the door: rain, sand and wet shoes.
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Bedrooms and upstairs rooms, kept well away from the rooms that take weather.
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Sunrooms and halls, where strong light and grit are both part of the daily load.
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Garages and boat stores, where a seamless resin floor is easier to hose down than anything with a joint in it.
More on epoxy and resinLake Pontchartrain sits between us and the north shore. We cross it for work on both sides. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
A house near the water takes more in through the front door than an inland one: rain, sand, wet shoes, and in hurricane season a good deal more than that.
Entry halls and wet rooms are where a waterproof system or tile pays for itself fastest. The rest of the house can follow whatever suits the living in it.
Mandeville has both: older homes raised over a ventilated crawl space and newer building laid onto slab. They are two different flooring problems and they get two different answers.
On a slab we take a moisture reading before anything is specified. On a raised house we look at the subfloor and the crawl space, because a floor is only ever as good as what it sits on.
Mandeville is the first town you reach coming off the Causeway, which makes it one of the shortest north shore runs we make. Booking a free measure is straightforward.
We measure the rooms, check the subfloor, and write the quote down with the preparation priced into it. Leveling and moisture treatment are line items, not surprises.
Then the material is ordered, acclimated and laid by our own team, with the same crew on the job from start to finish.
What a floor costs in Mandeville 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.
No, but it changes the specification and makes acclimation non-negotiable.
Tile or a waterproof system, because that floor takes the weather first and takes it most often.
Yes. Call and ask about your street if you are unsure.
Then what matters is the subfloor as much as the surface. We check it before quoting rather than laying a new floor over an old problem.
Long enough to measure properly and check the subfloor. It is free either way.
Sometimes. Ranges change, so we will be straight with you about how close a match is realistic.
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.
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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