At Big Easy Flooring we install, repair and refinish floors in Metairie and across Jefferson Parish, on the south shore between the city and the lake. Contact us and we will measure the rooms and price the job.
Much of Metairie was built out after the war, and a great deal of it sits on a concrete slab rather than on piers. That single fact decides more about your flooring options than the room, the budget or the color does.
Vapor moves up through a slab all year round. It is not a leak and it is not a fault, it is simply what concrete does on this coast. A floor laid over it has to be chosen with that in mind.
Where a Metairie house is older and raised on piers, the answer flips: the subfloor breathes with the season and solid board comes back onto the table. We look before we recommend.
Six materials, and what each one does in a Metairie house. The answer changes with what the room is sitting on, which here is usually a slab.
Engineered board rather than solid, in most cases. A slab pushes vapor up all year and engineered construction holds its shape through it.
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The default answer in a lot of Metairie streets. Luxury vinyl plank is untroubled by slab vapor and reads as board.
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For kitchens, baths, laundries and the front hall. Tile does not care about standing water or repeated mopping.
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Bedrooms and any upstairs room. Quieter underfoot, and away from the rooms that take water.
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Entry halls and sunrooms, where a floor takes grit off the street and strong afternoon light.
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Garages and workshops. A resin system bonds into the slab and shrugs off oil and hot tires.
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Gulf humidity swings hard across the year, and wood moves with it. The same species that lies flat in a dry climate can cup, gap or crown once it settles into a Louisiana summer.
That is why boards are acclimated on site before installation rather than laid the day they arrive, and why we take a moisture reading off the slab instead of assuming it is dry.
A kitchen, a bathroom, a laundry and a front hall in hurricane season are all wet rooms, whatever the plan calls them. Water resistant and waterproof are not the same rating, and the difference shows up years later rather than on day one.
Those rooms usually want tile or a waterproof system. The rest of the house can follow whatever suits the living in it.
Somebody comes out, measures the rooms and looks at the subfloor. On a slab that includes a moisture reading; on a raised house it means looking at the crawl space as well as the boards.
Then you get a written quote with the preparation priced into it. Leveling, moisture treatment and lifting the old floor are real line items, and a quote that leaves them out is not cheaper, it is unfinished.
Once the material is chosen it is ordered and acclimated, then laid by our own team. We stay on the job through every phase rather than handing sections to a different crew.
What a floor costs in Metairie 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.
Usually engineered board rather than solid, and never without testing the slab for moisture first. In a raised Metairie house solid board is often fine.
With a reading taken off the slab itself during the free measure, rather than a guess from how it looks or feels.
Yes. If your street is not on the list, call and ask and we will tell you straight whether we cover it.
Yes, and so is the consultation. The quote comes in writing.
You can, but we would usually put tile or a waterproof system in the wet rooms even if the rest runs one board.
Yes. Board replacement, sanding and refinishing, and putting right sections that have failed are all work we take on.
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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