Demolition
We handle demolition on houses and small commercial buildings, down to the slab when you want it gone. Free estimates across Acadiana.
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Culvert installation puts a pipe under your driveway so ditch water can pass through. We do this work in New Iberia and across Acadiana. Drainage out here runs through roadside ditches that feed coulees and bayous. Block that flow and water backs up into the yard.
We look at your ditch and the road grade before quoting a pipe size. Culvert pipe comes in plastic, metal or concrete. Your parish usually tells you which size to use, and the estimate is free.
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It depends on which road your driveway meets. In Iberia Parish the culvert permit comes from the Department of Permits, Planning and Zoning. The parish building permit form points open ditch lots there, at 337-369-4438. For a Lafayette Parish address, start with the Lafayette Consolidated Government Permitting Division for culvert permits in Lafayette, (337) 291-8200 or 311.
Other parishes route it their own way. Acadia Parish sends culvert questions to its road department at 337-788-8861. If your driveway ties into a state highway, Louisiana DOTD issues the permit. Their access connection form asks for pipe diameter, length and material.
We start by finding the flow line of the ditch. Trenching goes in with a mini excavator, and we check the fall along the run. Set the pipe too high and water dams up behind the drive. A soggy yard that never reaches the ditch is a different fix, covered on our yard drainage and French drain page. If the whole lot holds water, that becomes land grading for the whole lot.
The pipe gets bedded and backfilled so it holds shape under traffic. Rock headwalls go on both ends to hold the bank and keep dirt out of the pipe. Then we grade the approach and top it, or build the whole run as a new gravel driveway. Spoil dirt gets spread on site or hauled off.
Old culverts fail in a few ways. Metal pipe rusts through at the bottom until the road shoulder sags. Plastic pipe gets crushed under a loaded truck. Silt and brush pack the barrel until nothing moves through.
We pull the old pipe and set new pipe at the correct grade. Sizing rules differ by parish. Lafayette's standards set a 15 inch minimum culvert and a 32 foot cap on open ditch driveways. A ditch line grown up in brush gets opened first, which we handle as land clearing along the ditch.
Free, no-obligation estimates across New Iberia and all of Acadiana.
(337) 201-0594From the first call to the last load of debris hauled off, here is how it goes.
Tell us what the property needs: a teardown, a cleared lot, a pad, a driveway. We take the details and line up a time to come look.
We come look at the lot, check equipment access and soil conditions, and price the whole job. The estimate is free and it holds.
Permits where the parish or city wants them, utility checks before a teardown, and a start date you can plan around.
The machines do the work, debris gets hauled off, and the property is left graded and clean, ready for whatever comes next.
Common questions about culverts across New Iberia and all of Acadiana. If yours is not here, call and ask.
We handle demolition on houses and small commercial buildings, down to the slab when you want it gone. Free estimates across Acadiana.
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We tear down old mobile homes and manufactured homes around New Iberia and haul every piece off. The lot is left clean. Free on-site estimates across Acadiana.
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We tear down sheds, detached garages, barns, pole barns and metal carports around New Iberia, haul the debris off and leave the spot clean.
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We break out old concrete driveways, patios, walkways and slabs around New Iberia and haul the pieces off. Free on-site estimates across Acadiana.
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We clear overgrown lots and acreage around New Iberia. That means underbrushing, brush removal, briars, vines and small trees. The vegetation leaves the property in dump trailers or roll-off containers.
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We do dirt work across Acadiana: site prep, cut and fill, and fill packed in lifts. Our excavators and track loader move, spread and pack fill to the grade you need. Call for a free estimate.
View DetailsCompact excavators and a track loader work in town lots, back yards and farm gates. Tight access rarely stops a job, and the ground takes less damage than it would under bigger machines.
We live and work here, so Iberia Parish and the towns around it are short runs. Estimates happen fast and the machines show up when the schedule says they will.
Teardown, stumps, dirt, culvert, driveway: the same outfit can carry a property from overgrown or condemned to pad-ready. One schedule and one number instead of four subcontractors.
We price after looking at the property, the access and the ground. You get a real number before work starts, and the site is left clean when it ends.
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A driveway culvert runs about $1,000 to $9,000 installed. See who permits it in Iberia, Lafayette and the nearby parishes, how the pipe gets sized, and what moves the price.
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A yard French drain runs about $10 to $75 per foot. See published 50, 100 and 200 foot prices, what clay adds, and where the water can legally go.
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Gravel driveways run $1 to $3 per square foot installed. See what a 100, 200 or 1,000 foot limestone drive costs in Louisiana and what changes the price.
Read more →A structure that needs to come down, a lot to clear, a pad to build, or a driveway that floods? Call or send the form. We come look at the property, price the job in person, and give you a number that holds. Estimates are free.
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