First coat
Bond and coverage
The first coat is doing a different job from the second. It bonds to what is underneath and it tells us where the substrate is still drinking, which is information you only get once paint is actually on the wall.
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Commercial painting, greater New Orleans and the north shore
A commercial repaint is judged on what it costs you while it happens, not only on what it costs. The paint is the easy part. Keeping the building open, safe and worth walking into while a crew is in it is the job.
What this covers
Commercial Painting, end to end
A commercial repaint is judged on what it costs you while it happens, not only on what it costs. The paint is the easy part. Keeping the building open, safe and worth walking into while a crew is in it is the job.
Offices and retail Restaurants and bars Multi-unit residential Light industrial
How the job is run
We plan the disruption before we plan the paint
Lost trading hours, a lobby nobody wants to walk through, a corridor closed in the wrong week. Those are the real numbers on a commercial job, and they are usually larger than the difference between two quotes.
We walk the building with you
Building type, rough square footage, and when the space can actually be worked in. That last answer shapes the quote more than the first two do.
The schedule is built around your hours
Retail and restaurants generally mean nights and early mornings. Offices often mean weekends. Multi-unit residential means one stack or one elevation at a time, so residents always have a way in and out that is not a ladder.
Substrate is surveyed before it is priced
Concrete block, tilt-up, EIFS, metal panel, structural steel and painted masonry all want different preparation and different products. One price for a whole envelope usually means somebody has not walked it.
Phasing goes into the estimate, not into a conversation
We sequence so no area is out of use longer than it has to be, and so the parts of the building your customers see are never all under wraps at once. You can put the sequence in front of staff or tenants before anything starts.
Exteriors run by face and by hour
The surface has to sit more than 5 degrees above the dew point before a coat goes on, so on a tall elevation different faces come ready at different times of day. Between June 1 and November 30 nothing is left open and uncoated over a storm watch.
Why the quote says two
A coat and a job are different things
Painting a house here is a different job from painting one in a dry climate. Humidity changes how long a coat stays open, and it decides how much film you need on a wall before the weather starts taking it back.
Second coat
Color and film build
The second coat is where the color goes true and the film reaches the thickness printed on the tin. One coat over a sound wall looks fine from the driveway and looks thin on the north side by spring.
Why it is different here
Three things that decide a commercial price
None of them is the color.
Access hours
When the space is genuinely available changes the sequence and it changes the quote. Say it on the phone.
Traffic, not taste
Corridors, stair cores and back-of-house take a beating, so the finish there has to survive repeated cleaning, not merely look right on handover day.
Review, where it applies
Downtown Covington and Hammond, and the New Orleans historic districts, can bring a Certificate of Appropriateness or a Vieux Carre paint permit. We establish which review governs before quoting, because it moves the timeline more than the size of the building does.
How a job runs
Three steps, from the call to the clean up
The same three whether the job is one room or a whole elevation.
- 01
Scheduling
Book your free consultation by phone or through the form. Ask for references at any time.
- 02
Free Consultation
You get a project schedule and an accurate quote, whatever the size of the job.
- 03
Work Starts
Your painter starts, keeps you updated, and tidies up when the job is done.
2,500
Jobs finished
12
Cities covered
2
Coats quoted as standard
$0
Cost of an estimate
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Questions we get asked
Before you book the estimate
These are the ones asked about commercial painting specifically. If yours is not here, ask it on the call.
Not answered here?
Ask it on the estimate call. No charge, no obligation.
Mon to Fri, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Sat and Sun closed.
Can you work outside our business hours?
Yes, and on most retail and restaurant jobs that is the only sensible way to do it. Nights, early mornings and weekends are normal for us. Say when the space is genuinely available when you call, because it changes the sequence and it changes the quote.
How much of our building will be out of use at once?
As little as we can manage. The phasing gets written into the estimate, so you can see before you agree which areas are affected in which week. On multi-unit work we run one stack or one elevation at a time so there is always a clear way in.
Do you paint apartment and condo buildings?
Yes. Those are mostly a coordination job: notice to residents, balconies and walkways kept passable, and elevations sequenced so nobody is boxed in. The painting is the straightforward part.
What about metal, block and EIFS?
All normal on a commercial envelope and all handled differently. Metal wants adhesion and rust treatment where it has started, block wants a filler coat to get a sound surface, and EIFS wants a coating that lets the wall breathe. One price for the whole envelope usually means somebody has not walked it.
Do you handle historic commercial buildings?
Yes, including downtown work in Covington and Hammond and inside the New Orleans historic districts, where a Certificate of Appropriateness or a Vieux Carre paint permit applies. We establish which review governs before quoting, because it moves the timeline more than the size of the building does.
Where we do it
Commercial Painting in all twelve towns
The New Orleans metro, across the lake on the north shore, and up the river as far as Baton Rouge. Which ground you are on changes the schedule more than the size of the job.
Shade keeps moisture on a wall long after the sun has moved off it. Under a heavy oak canopy the recoat window stretches out, and the shaded elevation is the one that sets the schedule for the whole house.
A canal, a levee or a lakefront behind the house holds humidity at ground level. Two ends of one street can be ready to coat at different hours, so the order of the day matters more than the size of the crew.
Old siding, old millwork and old paint mean most of the day goes into preparation. On an older frontage the finish is only ever as good as what was scraped, filled and primed underneath it.
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Either way
Small room or whole elevation
Whether you have a small interior project or a large-scale exterior makeover in mind, Big Easy Paintings is your partner for the work. Talk to us about the project, get a quote, and we will tell you plainly what it takes.
Free estimate
Tell us where you are and what needs painting
On site or remote, in all twelve towns. No charge and no obligation. If it is quicker to talk, call 504-226-6252 and we will pick up.
- A written quote for two coats, itemized
- The prep spelled out, not assumed
- A start date we can hold
- The same crew from first day to last
Request a free estimate
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Two coats, quoted up front
No range, no surprise second visit to finish what one coat could not.