BEP 02 · Parish Blue
Interior and exterior work across Hammond, the brick downtown and student rentals included. Every job starts with a free written estimate at the property.
Hammond · Tangipahoa ParishWhat you get
The same four things on every house painting job in Hammond, Tangipahoa Parish, from a Victorian street near downtown to a rental near the university.
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 the phone rings in a railroad town with a brick downtown and 15,500 students.
Painting a building that fronts a public street or alley in the Hammond Historical District needs an application to the Historic District Commission covering appearance, color, texture and materials.
The National Register nomination records that 97 percent of the district's structures are brick, and masonry takes a different primer from wood.
The same nomination puts 82 percent of the district at two stories, so access is part of the price rather than an afterthought.
With the owner-occupied rate at 46.0 percent, a lot of property here changes hands or tenants, and a repaint is the fastest reset between them.
A 2014 survey documented 89 structures in the Adams-Lillie area, and the city's housing study puts 418 homes citywide at 1939 or earlier.
A commercial front on Railroad Avenue is read from across the street, and the finish is doing a job for the business behind it.
What we paint
Six residential services and five for commercial painting, available anywhere in Hammond, downtown district 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
Two storey fronts, brick, and the interiors of property that changes hands often.
On the ground
Three things about Hammond that no other city on our list has.
In the Historical District, the application covers the proposed appearance, color, texture, materials and exterior design, and no building permit is issued in the district without a certificate of appropriateness unless the governing authority permits otherwise. Your color choice is part of the submission, not a detail.
A separate preservation overlay covers the single-family homes in the area bounded by West Dakota Street, West Morris Street, NW Railroad Avenue and Arnold's Creek, with a visual compatibility requirement on exterior changes.
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 Hammond exterior is due for a repaint, brick and wood alike.
Chalking on masonry means the coat has broken down, and painted brick has to be washed and primed rather than just recoated.
Open mortar lets water behind the face, and repointing comes before any coating goes on.
A brown stain from a rail, a fastener or a cornice needs the metal treated first, or it comes straight back.
In rented property, the walls take the wear, and a full repaint between tenants costs less than patching twice.
Local
Four reasons a Hammond job runs better with painters who already work in these parishes.
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, and in the district, the commission sits between the estimate and the first coat.
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 Hammond.
The district application names the color, so the choice happens before the submission rather than on the day the crew arrives.
Masonry, wood and metal each take a different primer, and the estimate should say which is going on which elevation.
A rental is easiest to repaint between tenants, and that window is short, so the date goes on the calendar early.
About the area
What Hammond is, in the words of the Census, the university and the state encyclopedia.
Hammond began in 1861, when two investors bought track-side land from Peter Hammond for the C. E. Cate and Company shoe factory and lumber mill. It is now the largest city in Tangipahoa Parish.
The 2020 Census counted 19,584 people in Hammond across 14.04 square miles of land. The Census Bureau estimate for July 1, 2025 is 24,032.
The university reports 15,500 students, 14,200 of them undergraduates, on a 365 acre campus at 500 West University Avenue in Hammond.
Around town
Four places in Hammond, theater and parks included.
The theatre at 220 East Thomas Street opened on September 1, 1928 and reopened in January 2002 after a restoration. Southeastern Louisiana University owns and operates the 830 seat hall.
The city lists this 33 acre park at 400 South Oak Street with a pond, a 0.7 mile walking and jogging track, a swimming pool, tennis courts, a skate park and three baseball fields.
A 2.1 acre city park at 200 West Charles Street with a playground and a gazebo.
The arts center at 217 East Thomas Street has run exhibitions, performances, classes and cultural celebrations since 1982.
Next door
The Tangipahoa towns around Hammond, and where they sit on the parish rail line.
Ponchatoula sits about 50 miles north of New Orleans and has long been known as the Strawberry Capital of Louisiana. Its strawberry festival started in 1972.
Amite is the seat of Tangipahoa Parish, and the parish government gives its address as 206 East Mulberry Street in Amite City.
Both formed at regular intervals along the railroad that runs the length of Tangipahoa Parish, as did Roseland, Fluker and Kentwood.
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 Hammond that go back to the railroad.
The National Register nomination records Peter Hammond, a Swedish immigrant, as the area's first settler, and describes the lumber and tar products he made from the virgin pine forests of the area.
The Cate shoe factory won a contract to supply footwear for the Confederacy in 1862, and Union forces destroyed it in 1863.
The New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad reached the area in 1854, and land speculation followed once Hammond's Crossing became a regular stop on the line.
Southeastern Louisiana University opened in 1925 as Hammond Junior College, was brought into the state system in 1928, and was then renamed Southeastern Louisiana College.
Getting around
Trains, a city bus and an airport, which is more than most towns on our list have.
The Chicago to New Orleans train stops at the Hammond station, 404 N.W. Railroad Avenue. Amtrak states that the renovated 1912 depot houses the local chamber of commerce, the Court Clerk and an Amtrak waiting room.
The City of Hammond owns and operates this general aviation airport on over 900 acres, 55 miles north of New Orleans, with two lighted runways and an air traffic control tower. It handles general, corporate and military aircraft.
The city runs a bus service that resumed on January 3, 2022. The city page carries a phone number for current routes, stops and schedules rather than a published timetable.
The state transportation department runs a Hammond District that plans, builds, operates and maintains the state transportation system across six parishes, Tangipahoa among them.
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 Hammond owners ask before the first visit.
Yes, across the city, inside and out, and commercial property in the same area.
Yes, if the building fronts a public street or alley. The application to the Historic District Commission sets out the appearance, color, texture, materials and exterior design, and no building permit is issued without a certificate of appropriateness.
Yes, and we will tell you honestly when leaving it bare is the better call. Painted masonry needs washing, any bad mortar repaired, and a primer made for brick.
Yes. A repaint between tenants is the least disruptive way to reset a rental, and we schedule around the date the property is empty.
Hammond is the city we cover in the parish. Tell us the address, and we will say plainly whether it is inside the area we drive to 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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