Epoxy Floor & Concrete Coating Contractors in Louisiana

Louisiana has a character all its own. New Orleans brings the French Quarter, Jackson Square, the Garden District’s live oaks and the music on Frenchmen Street. Out west, Acadiana’s Cajun towns around Lafayette are surrounded by bayous, rice fields and crawfish ponds, and the Atchafalaya Basin is the largest river swamp in the country. Baton Rouge’s towering State Capitol overlooks the Mississippi River, Lake Pontchartrain spreads north of New Orleans with the Causeway running across it, and the piney hills of north Louisiana around Shreveport and Monroe give way to the Kisatchie National Forest in the center of the state.

Heat, Humidity and Water Everywhere

The defining feature of Louisiana’s climate for concrete is moisture. Summers are long, hot and humid, rainfall is heavy year-round, and the water table in much of south Louisiana sits just below the surface. Most homes are built slab-on-grade, and moisture vapor constantly pushes up through those slabs. A coating applied without testing and the right primer can blister, bubble or peel. Experienced installers check moisture levels, open up the surface by grinding, and use moisture-tolerant or vapor-mitigating primers before building a floor system on top.

Hurricanes and tropical storms are part of life here, and flood water that sits in a garage or ground-floor room can ruin carpet, tile and laminate. Coated concrete is far easier to clean and dry out afterward, which is one reason many homeowners and business owners choose epoxy and polyaspartic floors. Intense sun means UV-stable polyaspartic or aliphatic urethane topcoats are the better choice for anything outdoors or near open garage doors, since standard epoxy can yellow. Wet patios, pool decks and carports also need slip-resistant texture, especially during frequent summer downpours.

Soils add their own challenge. North Louisiana has expansive clays that shrink and swell with wet and dry spells, and the soft, subsiding soils around New Orleans and the coast can move slabs over time. Cracks need proper repair before coating so they don’t telegraph through the finished floor.

Where Louisianans Put Coatings

Ranch homes with attached garages and carports are everywhere, and many families use the garage as a second living space, workshop or place to clean fish and game. Covered back patios, outdoor kitchens and pool decks see a lot of use in the warm months. On the commercial side, the state’s restaurants, seafood processors, petrochemical plants, shipyards, hangars and warehouses all need floors that handle grease, chemicals and heavy traffic.

• Flake garage floors that clean up easily after storms
• Decorative coatings for patios, porches and pool decks
• Commercial kitchen and food-processing floors
• Industrial epoxy for shops and plants

The largest markets are Greater New Orleans, including Metairie and the West Bank, along with Baton Rouge, Shreveport-Bossier City, Lafayette, Lake Charles and Monroe. Local contractors know how to work around the humidity and moisture that make Louisiana floors different from anywhere else.

Compare the Louisiana contractors listed on this page, check which coating systems and areas they cover, and request a few quotes for your project.