Industries Served
Entertainment Venue Flooring in New Orleans
We install and restore entertainment venue flooring across New Orleans for theaters, museums, galleries and music venues. Each floor has to handle a full house and the spills that come with it, and in the city's older venues it has to respect the building too.
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What does a venue floor have to handle?
This page is for venue owners and facility managers. It covers what a venue floor has to handle, which floors fit each space, and what historic buildings, humidity and water add to a project in New Orleans.
A venue asks more of a floor than most buildings, because the crowd arrives all at once.
Crowds and spills between shows
Lobbies, bars and aisles fill at once and then need cleaning before the next performance. Plan hard, cleanable surfaces wherever drinks are served.
Wheelchair seating and aisles
ADA section 802.1.1 says the floor of wheelchair spaces must meet the ADA's surface rules with no changes in level, though slopes up to 1:48 are allowed. Elsewhere, a change in level up to 1/4 inch may be vertical, which matters where a new floor meets an old one or the edge of a stage.
Carpet in auditoriums
The ADA caps carpet pile at 1/2 inch, and its advisory notes that carpet can sharply increase the force needed to push a wheelchair. Choose low-pile carpet or carpet tile for seating areas and aisles.
Sound and stage use
Bring your sound and stage staff into the choice between carpet and a hard floor. They know how the room is meant to sound and how the stage gets used.
Built for New Orleans
Entertainment venue flooring in New Orleans: what fits each space
Most venues need several floors, chosen space by space.
Wood for stages and halls
Our hardwood flooring page covers species and what our humidity means for wood.
Stone and terrazzo in lobbies
If the lobby has an original stone floor, our stone floor restoration and polishing service can bring it back. The Natural Stone Institute says a honed finish can increase slip resistance on many stones, so ask about the finish near entrances.
Carpet tile in seating areas
Keep the pile low, and a stained tile can be swapped out without replacing the whole aisle.
Vinyl or tile for bars, back of house and restrooms
Keep carpet away from drink service and anywhere that gets mopped every night.
- 890459Residential license
- 3667Commercial license
- 14Cities in the New Orleans metro
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How it works
Older New Orleans venues: historic floors, humidity and water
If your venue is in an older building, that changes how a floor project starts.
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Restore before you replace
The Vieux Carre Commission regulates the preservation of French Quarter buildings, and the HDLC regulates historic landmarks and districts outside the French Quarter. The National Park Service lists parquet wood floors among the notable features of historic interiors and warns against destructive methods such as torches or sandblasting to strip paint or coatings. Have an original floor assessed first; hardwood floor refinishing may be all it needs.
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Slab and subfloor moisture
The Department of Energy classes Orleans Parish as hot-humid (climate zone 2A). ASTM's slab humidity standard (F2170) says excess moisture in a slab can cause debonding and microbial growth under a new floor, so test the slab before anything is glued down.
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Ground floors and water
NASA notes that about 70% of New Orleans sits below sea level. Plan ground-floor lobbies and bars around surfaces you can clean and dry after a leak or flood.
How the install fits around your event calendar
A venue earns its money on show nights, so plan the floor around your bookings. These are the points to settle in the estimate.
Dark dates
Share your booking calendar and plan the work for the dates the house is dark.
Phases
Treat the lobby, the house and back of house as separate phases if you can't close them all at once.
Reopening time
Ask how long each floor and adhesive needs before crowds walk on it.
Care notes
Get each floor's cleaning instructions for your house crew at handover.
We work with venues across New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner, Gretna and the Northshore; see our service areas. Arenas and stadiums have their own page: sports arena and stadium flooring. For a free estimate, tell us the spaces, the rough square footage and your next dark dates.
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FAQ
Common Questions About Cultural and Entertainment Venues
Talk to an Expert about Cultural and Entertainment Venues.
What flooring works for a theater or music venue?
Usually a mix: low-pile carpet or carpet tile in seating areas, vinyl or tile where drinks are served, and wood on the stage. Seating areas also have to stay within the ADA's 1/2 inch carpet pile limit.
Can you restore the original floors in an older New Orleans venue?
Have it assessed first; refinishing may be all it needs. The National Park Service lists parquet wood floors among the notable features of historic interiors, so check with the Vieux Carre Commission or HDLC before replacing original wood, stone or terrazzo in a regulated building.
Can we keep our event calendar while the floor is replaced?
Usually, if the work is planned around dark dates and split into phases. Share your booking calendar at the estimate so the schedule fits it.
Do you cover venues outside New Orleans?
Yes. We work across the metro, including Metairie, Kenner, Gretna and the Northshore. Our service areas page lists every town.
Service Areas
Based in New Orleans, LA.
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