At Big Easy Flooring we lay, sand, refinish and repair hardwood floors for homes and businesses across New Orleans, from Metairie over to Covington and Mandeville. Contact us and we will measure the rooms and price the job.
We lay new boards, replace damaged ones, and sand and refinish floors that are sound but tired. On an older house that often means saving what is already there rather than pulling it up.
Before anything goes down we check what the boards will be sitting on. A raised wood subfloor and a concrete slab behave differently, and they rule different products in and out.
Solid boards can be sanded back more times over their life, which suits a raised house with a ventilated crawl space underneath.
Engineered board is built in layers that hold their shape as humidity moves through the year, so it is usually the better answer over a slab or anywhere the moisture reading is high.
Wood moves with the air around 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 the slab gets a moisture test first.
If the boards are thick enough to take another sanding, refinishing is usually the better value and keeps the original floor.
If boards are cupped, rotted, or have already been sanded down too far, replacement is the honest answer. We will tell you which one you are looking at when we see the floor.
Four steps, and you know what happens at each one before we start.
Solid or engineered, species, width and finish. What the room sits on narrows this before taste does.
We measure, check the subfloor, and on a slab take a moisture reading. That reading decides whether solid board is even on the table.
Boards sit in the room before they go down, and the subfloor is leveled. Skipping acclimation here is what causes gapping later.
Laid, then sanded and finished on site where the job calls for it, so the surface is continuous rather than stopping at every board.
Cupping, where the board edges rise higher than the middle, is almost always moisture from underneath. On a raised house that usually means the crawl space; on a slab it means the slab.
Gapping between boards in winter is normal and usually closes again. Gapping that does not close, or that appears within weeks of installation, points to boards that were never acclimated.
A finish that wears through in a traffic lane is not a failure, it is a floor asking to be refinished. That is a far smaller job than replacement, and catching it early is what keeps it that way.
Sweep or vacuum the grit off, because grit is what actually scratches a finish. Damp mop rather than wet mop, and never let water stand on a seam.
Keep the house at a reasonably steady humidity if you can. Wood moves with the air around it, and a floor that swings from dry winter air to a Louisiana August will move more than one that does not.
Felt pads under furniture, and a mat at every door that opens to the outside. Those two habits do more for a wood floor than any product you can buy.
No two hardwood floor jobs price the same, because no two rooms are sitting on the same thing.
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.
Often yes, but never without testing the slab for moisture first. Many slab-built homes are better served by engineered board or a waterproof system.
It depends on how much wear layer is left. We measure it on site rather than guess, because sanding a board that is already thin ruins it.
Yes. Replacing damaged boards, sanding and refinishing, and putting right sections that have failed are all work we take on.
No. Those are wet rooms, and they want tile or a waterproof system instead.
A free on-site measure, a written quote, and a straight answer about what suits the space. Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 6 PM.
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