At Big Easy Flooring we fit waterproof floor systems 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.
Water resistant and waterproof are two different ratings. Resistant buys you time to mop a spill. Waterproof is built to sit in water and not fail.
On this coast that distinction matters more than it does almost anywhere else, so we say plainly which rating a product carries before you choose it.
Bathrooms, laundries and kitchens are the obvious ones. A front hall in hurricane season belongs on the same list.
Anywhere water arrives regularly rather than occasionally is a room where a waterproof system pays for itself.
On a slab-built house, vapor rises through the concrete whatever happens at floor level.
That is a different problem from a spilled bucket, and it is why the slab gets tested before a system is specified rather than after.
A waterproof surface with an open seam is not a waterproof floor.
How the joints are made, and how the floor meets the wall and the shower tray, decides whether the room actually stays dry.
Four steps, and you know what happens at each one before we start.
Water resistant and waterproof are different ratings. We tell you which one a product carries before you choose it.
We measure and test the substrate, because on a slab the water can be coming from underneath rather than from above.
Leveling, and in a genuine wet room the detailing that stops water reaching the structure at all.
The field is the easy part. Seams, perimeters and the junction with the shower tray are what decide whether the room stays dry.
Almost every failure is a seam or a junction, not the material. A waterproof surface with an open joint is not a waterproof floor.
The second most common failure is moisture from below on a slab that was never tested. The floor holds water out perfectly and lifts because water is pushing up.
A soft or springy patch means water has already reached the subfloor. That needs opening up rather than covering over.
The surface needs very little: sweep, damp mop, neutral cleaner. What needs attention is the perimeter.
Check the silicone or sealant where the floor meets the tray, the bath and the wall once a year. That is the first thing to fail and the cheapest thing to renew.
Do not rely on a waterproof floor to solve a leak. It buys time, it does not fix plumbing.
No two waterproof 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 on this coast, particularly on a ground floor that has taken water before.
Yes, and it is one of the better answers for a slab. The slab still gets tested for moisture first.
Modern waterproof plank is photographed and embossed from real board. Come and look at samples rather than take our word for it.
It still has to be flat, sound and dry. Waterproof on top does not fix a problem underneath.
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