The New Orleans Hardwood Floors Installers serves Metairie, LA for hardwood floors, refinishing, floor repairs, vinyl plank, laminate, tile and carpet, with free estimates and written quotes. Call (504) 977-2662 or text a photo of the job.
Flooring Installation & Refinishing services in Metairie
Metairie is mostly slab country. The ranch homes and split-levels built from the 1950s through the 1970s sit on concrete poured right on the ground, so the first thing to check before new flooring is moisture coming up through that slab. Old Metairie is the exception: its older raised houses and cottages near Metairie Road often have wood floors on joists over a short crawl space. Parts of Metairie took water after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and much of the tile and vinyl laid in the rebuild is now worn, cracked or coming loose. Summers are long and wet, and a house closed up with the air conditioning off can swell a wood floor in a few weeks. Common Metairie jobs are vinyl plank over slabs, tile in kitchens and baths, engineered wood over a moisture barrier, and refinishing the oak in Old Metairie homes.
Neighborhoods we cover in Metairie
- Old Metairie
- Bucktown
- Fat City
- Bonnabel Place
- Metairie Terrace
Permits and local rules
Metairie is unincorporated, so Jefferson Parish handles permits. The parish lists tiling, carpeting and similar finish work in one- and two-family homes as work that does not need a building permit, unless the code official finds it hazardous or complex. Replacing joists or other structural parts of the floor is a different matter, and we check it with the parish first.