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Interior and exterior painting across LaPlace, rebuilt and raised houses included. Every job starts with a free written estimate at the property.
LaPlace · St. John the Baptist ParishWhat you get
The same four things on every house painting job in LaPlace, St. John the Baptist Parish, whether the house came through Ida dry or is still being put back together.
We walk the property, then put scope, preparation, product and price in one document.
Washing, scraping, filling and priming are line items, not favors done if there is time.
Covered in Louisiana, on homes and on commercial property, and we will show you the paper.
Beds and floors covered, paths swept, and the drop sheets leave with us.
Why people call
Six reasons owners call us. Several of them involve water, and it did not come from the river.
The National Weather Service reported up to four to six feet of water inside LaPlace homes during Ida. New board and new plaster need sealing before a finish coat.
The parish hazard mitigation plan uses flooding in LaPlace during Isaac as its example, a town protected by a levee facing the Mississippi and open to floodwater arriving from the lake side.
The types recorded in the LaPlace Historic District include wood frame shotguns and doubles, bungalows and minimal traditional cottages. Wood needs preparation before paint.
A house that has been lifted or rebuilt arrives needing a full interior and exterior finish, not a touch-up.
The Army Corps of Engineers is building the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain project, an 18.5-mile risk reduction system of levees, floodwalls, gates and pump stations around these communities. Property work here is being scheduled to suit it.
In a rebuild, the kitchen is usually finished last, and cabinet doors are the surface that shows it.
What we paint
Six residential services and five for commercial painting, available anywhere in LaPlace, rebuilt property included.
Walls, ceilings, trim and doors, painted room by room.
Siding, trim and porches, washed and primed before the finish.
Doors off, degreased and primed, then refitted where they came from.
The painting side of a remodel, sequenced around the other trades.
Siding, driveways and patios, at a pressure the surface can take.
Commercial work runs on the same footprint, phased around your opening hours.
Color and finish chosen around your brand, applied after hours so desks stay in use.
Hard-wearing coatings for high-traffic walls, floors and locker areas.
Low-odor systems and calm palettes for clinical and patient-facing spaces.
Scheduled into term breaks so classrooms come back ready to use.
Facades, walkways and parking lots washed down before any coating goes on.
On the job
Repaired walls, sealed surfaces and interiors that are being finished a second time.
On the ground
Three things about LaPlace that change the scope before the price.
For Ida, the National Hurricane Center estimated peak inundation of 6 to 11 feet above ground level for the east bank of this parish and St. Charles Parish, with the highest measured mark of 8.2 feet in LaPlace. Water depth inside houses is a separate figure. We ask which one your property saw.
Anything that has been wet is treated as a repair first. Patched plaster, new board and replaced trim are primed and sealed before a finish coat goes anywhere near them.
Homes built before 1978 may contain lead paint, and the EPA Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule sets how those surfaces are disturbed.
When to book
Four signs a LaPlace property is ready for work, inside and out.
A mark that bleeds back through fresh paint needs sealing, not another coat.
A line near the floor records standing water, and it tells us where to check for soft material.
Unfinished repair work absorbs moisture, and the longer it stays bare, the more preparation it needs later.
Powder on your palm after you touch an exterior wall means the coat has given up.
Local
Four reasons a LaPlace job runs better with local painters.
Crews working these parishes year round know what humidity and wind-driven rain do to a coat.
The people who walk the property are the people on the ladder, not a call center.
We are close enough that snagging something after the job is a short drive, not a claim.
504-380-9862 reaches the people doing the work, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.
How it runs
Four steps, with repairs priced in writing rather than discovered halfway.
Call or send the form. We agree a time and confirm it before we come.
We look at the actual surfaces, inside or out, and note what needs repair.
Scope, preparation, product and price, in writing. No verbal numbers.
Washing, repairs and priming first, then the finish coats.
Planning
Three things to settle before we start in LaPlace.
Which rooms, how high, and whether the board was replaced. Those answers decide the preparation, and it belongs in the estimate.
If the house is still being rebuilt or raised, the painting follows that work rather than running alongside it.
Siding, trim, soffits and the porch all weather differently here, and it is cheaper to agree on the whole scope at the estimate.
About the area
Where LaPlace sits, in the words of the parish.
St. John the Baptist Parish lies along the Mississippi River roughly 25 miles northwest of New Orleans and roughly 40 miles southeast of Baton Rouge. The parish hazard mitigation plan lists LaPlace among its unincorporated communities, along with Reserve, Garyville and Edgard.
Lake Maurepas and Manchac Pass form the parish border to the north, and St. Charles Parish and Lake Pontchartrain lie to the east. The land is relatively flat, sitting ten to fifteen feet above sea level along the riverbanks and sloping down to five feet or less away from the river.
The parish was settled in the early 1720s by Germans led by Karl Frederic D'Arensbourg, and the stretch became known as La Cote des Allemands, or the German Coast. LaPlace sits on the east bank of the Mississippi River.
Around town
Four places in and around LaPlace, the parish park and the plantation sites included.
A parish park at 2900 Hwy. 51 in LaPlace, listed by St. John the Baptist Parish Parks and Recreation as an accessible facility.
A local historic district along Main Street and the surrounding neighborhood, established by the parish with the Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation. It carries two periods of significance, 1793 to 1922 and 1923 to 1968.
A nonprofit museum at 5099 Louisiana Hwy 18 in Wallace, in the same parish, and the only plantation museum in Louisiana focused exclusively on the story of slavery. Its memorials include the Wall of Honor and the Field of Angels.
An antebellum plantation house near Garyville, founded by Pierre Rillieux in 1830 and restored to its late 1850s appearance. The site also keeps historic outbuildings, including an 1840s cabin and a school house from the 1830s.
Next door
The other communities of St. John the Baptist Parish around LaPlace.
Two more unincorporated communities of St. John the Baptist Parish, named alongside LaPlace in the parish hazard mitigation plan.
Both sit in St. John the Baptist Parish on the western side of Lake Pontchartrain, away from the river. Federal survey crews recorded some of the parish's highest Hurricane Ida water marks near Frenier Landing.
Another unincorporated community of the parish, on Highway 18 across the Mississippi River from LaPlace. The St. John Parish courthouse stands there at 2393 Hwy 18.
We drive New Orleans and nine parish cities for a free walk-through. Tell us the address and we will say plainly whether yours is inside it.
Worth knowing
Four things about LaPlace and the German Coast around it.
The parish writes that it is so proud of its andouille that LaPlace has been designated Andouille Capital of the World. An Andouille Festival is held each October.
The jazz trombonist Kid Ory was born on December 25, 1886, and raised on the Woodland Plantation in LaPlace, where his musical career began. He bought a trombone and moved to New Orleans with his Woodland Band by 1910.
The largest slave rebellion in United States history began on January 8, 1811, at the plantation of Manuel Andry in St. John the Baptist Parish. Historians estimate from varying eyewitness accounts that between one hundred fifty and five hundred people took part.
LaPlace remained a small settlement until 1923, when the former Woodland Plantation land was subdivided into 100 acre tracts and triggered a housing boom. In 1914 the community had 375 residents, and by 1960 it had 3,541.
Getting around
The highways, the demand response bus service and the plans for passenger rail.
A four lane divided highway running generally east and west through LaPlace, with a posted speed limit of 45 mph and eight to ten foot paved shoulders. The parish plan notes it is generally surrounded by commercial land use.
A north and south route through LaPlace, built as a five lane section divided by a two way left turn lane. It provides connectivity between US 61 and Interstate 10 and Interstate 55.
Created by special Louisiana legislation to provide regional transit, it runs a general public demand response service in St. Charles and St. John the Baptist parishes. The service connects to St. James Parish and the city of Kenner's transit systems.
Planning for passenger rail between Baton Rouge and New Orleans identifies the Kansas City Southern tracks near Main Street in LaPlace as the preferred station location. The parish secured grant funds in 2018 to complete a LaPlace Multi-Modal Transportation Center Plan.
Service areas
The eight other parish cities on our list, and New Orleans itself.
Inside New Orleans itself we work across the Garden District, Uptown, Carrollton, Mid-City, Lakeview, Gentilly, Bywater, Marigny, Treme, the Irish Channel and Algiers, on everything from Creole cottages and shotgun doubles to new-build and commercial property.
Questions
What LaPlace owners ask before booking.
Yes, we paint houses anywhere in LaPlace, inside and out.
Yes, we paint LaPlace houses after flood repairs once the surface is dry and sound. New board, patched plaster and replaced trim are sealed and primed first, and that sequence is written into the scope.
Yes. A raised or rebuilt house usually needs the full interior and exterior finish, and we quote it as that rather than as a refresh.
It depends on the condition of the wood and on the weather. The written estimate sets out the order of work instead of promising a number of days on the phone.
LaPlace is the community we cover in St. John the Baptist Parish. Tell us the address, and we will say plainly whether yours is inside the area we drive for a free estimate.
Yes. We walk the property, look at the actual surfaces, and put scope, preparation, product and price in writing, with no obligation to book.
Yes, in Louisiana, and the cover applies to commercial jobs as well as homes. Ask us for proof before you sign anything.
9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Calling on 504-380-9862 is the quickest way to get a walk-through booked, and the form reaches us outside those hours.
Free estimate
Send the form and we will call to arrange a walk-through. If you would rather talk it through now, the phone is quicker.
We call to agree a time that suits you, and confirm it before the visit.
We walk the property, look at the actual surfaces and talk through color.
You get scope, preparation, product and price in writing, with no obligation.
Serving New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner, Covington, Mandeville, Madisonville, Abita Springs, Hammond, LaPlace and St Rose.
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