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Hospitality Flooring Contractor for New Orleans and Baton Rouge Hotels
We install and replace hotel flooring across New Orleans and Baton Rouge, matching lobbies, corridors, guest rooms and back of house areas to floors that clean up well and cope with a humid climate. If you need a hotel flooring contractor in New Orleans for a full renovation or a single floor, we'll walk the property and give you a free estimate.
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Which floors suit each part of a hotel?
This page is for hotel owners, general managers and property managers. It covers which floor suits each part of a hotel and the rules a hotel floor has to meet, then how to plan for humidity, leaks and water in South Louisiana.
A lobby and a guest room ask very different things of a floor, so hotel work is planned area by area.
Lobbies and entrances
Rain and street grit come straight in at the front door. Hard surfaces such as tile or natural stone fit here, with walk-off matting just inside the entrance.
Corridors and guest rooms
Carpet tile, broadloom and luxury vinyl are the options to compare. CDC guidance written for healthcare buildings notes carpet tiles can be removed and replaced if blood or body fluids contaminate them. Our carpet flooring page compares the choices.
Bathrooms and back of house
OSHA requires workroom floors to be kept clean and, as far as feasible, dry. Laundries, kitchens and service corridors need hard floors that can be mopped and dried quickly.
Ballrooms, bars and restaurants
Event rooms and dining areas take spills and rolling carts. Our restaurant and cafe flooring page covers food service floors in more detail.
Built for New Orleans
Hotel flooring company for Baton Rouge and New Orleans
If you're looking for a hospitality flooring contractor in Baton Rouge, we take hotel jobs there as well as across the New Orleans metro. Both cities sit in the same climate class, so the same planning applies.
Coverage
New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner and the Northshore, plus Baton Rouge. See our Baton Rouge flooring page.
Same climate
The Department of Energy classes both Orleans and East Baton Rouge parishes as hot-humid (climate zone 2A).
What the site visit covers
We check the subfloor and the existing floor build-up, and take a moisture reading on any slab.
The estimate
It's free and broken down by area, so you can phase the work floor by floor.
- 890459Residential license
- 3667Commercial license
- 14Cities in the New Orleans metro
- FREEEstimate on all services
How it works
Noise, fire safety and access: what hotel floors must meet
Three sets of rules touch most hotel flooring jobs, and each one can change the product you order.
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Footfall noise between rooms
The 2021 International Building Code, in the Louisiana version published on UpCodes, requires floor-ceiling assemblies between sleeping units to reach an impact insulation class (IIC) of at least 50, tested to ASTM E492. A new floor covering changes that assembly, so ask for the tested IIC result for the floor and its underlayment before you swap carpet for a hard floor upstairs.
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Carpet fire safety
The federal standard 16 CFR 1630 sets the test for the surface flammability of carpets and rugs. Ask to see that any carpet you order meets it.
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Accessible routes and rooms
The 2010 ADA Standards require floor surfaces to be stable, firm and slip resistant, and limit carpet pile to 1/2 inch. Plan lobbies, corridors and accessible guest rooms around those limits.
Humidity, leaks and storms: planning hotel floors in South Louisiana
Water reaches hotel floors from roofs, plumbing and the street, and a humid climate adds moisture questions below the floor.
Test slabs before resilient or wood floors
ASTM's slab humidity standard (F2170) says excess moisture in a slab can cause debonding and microbial growth under a floor covering, and that manufacturers generally require moisture testing before install. Ground-floor lobbies and ballrooms on a slab get tested first.
After a leak or flood
NASA notes that about 70% of New Orleans sits below sea level. The EPA advises drying water-damaged areas within 24 to 48 hours to prevent mold, and says carpet may have to be thrown away if it becomes moldy.
Floors you can dry or swap in sections
FEMA's flood guidance names tile, vinyl and rubber among the flood-resistant replacements for carpet. On ground floors and anywhere a leak is likely, pick floors that can be dried in place or replaced a section at a time.
How the work fits around guests
A hotel can't close for new floors. These are the points to settle in the estimate.
Phasing
Agree which floors or wings are released at a time, and the date each one comes back into service.
Working hours
Ask which hours suit your guests and write them into the estimate.
Lifts, stairs and access
Agree which lifts and stairs crews may use and how guest routes stay open.
Cure and dry times
Build adhesive and leveling cure times into each room's return date.
Price
The area released at once, slab prep and moisture results, removal and disposal, and stairs and transitions all move the number.
We serve hotels across New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner, the Northshore and Baton Rouge (see our service areas). Ask for a free estimate and tell us the areas and rough square footage, and whether the building stays open during the work.
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What Customers Say About TurnKey Floorings
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As a builder, I’ve worked with numerous flooring contractors over the years, but my experience with Turnkey Floorings stands out. They were extremely professional, and their installation of carpet flooring for a big project was flawless. The client was ecstatic with the outcome, and I look forward to our future projects.
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They have transformed my hotel! Their suggestion of flake flooring for the lobby was a hit, adding an unexpected touch of luxury. Their team was professional and completed the project on time. They are the best flooring contractors in New Orleans.
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