At Big Easy Flooring we install, repair and refinish floors in Covington and across St Tammany Parish, on the north shore inland from the lake. Contact us and we will measure the rooms and price the job.
Covington sits inland on the north shore, and its housing stock runs from older homes raised over a ventilated crawl space through to newer streets laid straight onto slab.
Those two need different floors. An older raised house breathes underneath, and the wood subfloor moves with the season, which suits solid board. A slab-built house pushes vapor up and wants engineered board, plank, tile or a waterproof system instead.
So the first thing we do on any Covington job is look at what the room is actually sitting on, rather than starting from the material you had in mind.
Six materials, and what each one does in a Covington house. The housing here runs from older raised homes to newer slab-built streets, so the answer genuinely changes.
Covington's raised homes suit solid board well, provided the boards are acclimated properly before they go down.
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For the newer slab-built streets, where plank handles the vapor coming up through the concrete.
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Kitchens, baths and entry halls. It takes grit tracked in from outside without scratching through a surface layer.
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Bedrooms and upstairs rooms, where quiet matters more than water resistance.
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Entry halls and sunrooms, and worth the conversation before anything is ordered because stone varies so much.
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Garages, workshops and the outbuildings that come with a larger north shore plot.
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.
Being back from the lake takes a little of the edge off the humidity, but only a little. Wood still moves across the year here, and the rules about acclimation do not relax because you are a few miles further north.
Boards are acclimated on site before they go down. On a slab we take a moisture reading first. Neither step is optional and neither is an upsell.
In a raised Covington house there is frequently an original floor underneath whatever has been laid over it. It is always worth lifting a corner before deciding to replace.
Where boards are sound and thick enough to take another sanding, refinishing is usually the better value and keeps the floor the house was built with. Where they are cupped, rotted or already sanded too far, we will say so plainly.
We cross the lake for work on both sides, so Covington is a regular run rather than an exception we make. The free on-site measure is easy to book.
On site we measure the rooms, check the subfloor or the slab, and then write the quote down with the preparation priced into it rather than left out to make the number look smaller.
The material is ordered, acclimated and laid by our own team, and we stay with the job from the first room to the last.
What a floor costs in Covington 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. We publish a service page for Covington because we work there regularly, not because it looks good on a list.
In a raised house over a ventilated crawl space, often yes. In a newer slab-built house, usually engineered board instead.
Surprisingly often, yes. We check before recommending replacement.
No. The on-site measure and the consultation are both free.
It depends on the material. Wood needs acclimation time and resin needs cure time between coats. You get the timeline for your own job at the consultation.
Yes, room by room where that suits. Tell us at the measure and we will plan it that way.
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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