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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We build house pads in New Iberia and across Acadiana for new slab homes, mobile homes, shops and barns. A house pad is a raised, packed platform of dirt that a slab sits on. A mobile home pad is the same kind of raised ground, built for a manufactured home. Estimates are free and done on site, so call (337) 201-0594 to set one up.
We run compact excavators and a track loader, with dump trailers to move dirt. We cut and reuse dirt from the lot or haul fill in, and each pad goes up in packed lifts. Your builder or engineer sets the pad height and the fill type, and we build to that number. We work out of New Iberia across Iberia, Lafayette, St. Martin, Vermilion, St. Landry, Acadia and St. Mary parishes.
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A house pad, or dirt pad, is the raised ground a new slab home is built on. It lifts the slab above the lot and gives rain a slope to run off. When the pad is done, a concrete contractor handles the slab. We build pads for shops and barns the same way.
Around New Iberia, the clay and the flood maps are two big reasons to build up. The USDA's Iberia clay series, described about 5 miles east of New Iberia, drains poorly. From December through April in normal years, a saturated layer sits within 2 feet of the surface. It can also crack up to 1 inch wide and 20 inches deep or more.
Mobile homes get a pad too, and the home's installer sets and anchors the home on it. If an old one still sits on the lot, mobile home demolition clears it first. Cut-and-fill work across a whole lot falls under site prep and dirt work.
On heavy, wet clay, we build a pad in steps. If the lot is grown up in brush and small trees, land clearing comes first. Then we strip the grass and roots off the footprint, and the track loader packs the fill in lifts. Skip the lifts, and the pad settles later.
The fill type matters too, and Louisiana's residential code, the 2021 International Residential Code, sets limits on it. Under a slab, it wants fill free of vegetation and foreign material, packed so the slab is supported evenly. Unless approved, that fill is capped at 24 inches of clean sand or gravel, or 8 inches of earth. So your builder or engineer sets the fill type, and we build to it.
We shape the top of the pad flat and slope the sides so water runs off. Around a house, the code wants the ground to fall at least 6 inches within the first 10 feet. Shaping the rest of the yard to drain is land grading and yard leveling. The drive in is a gravel driveway job, plus driveway culvert installation where it crosses the road ditch.
Much of Acadiana sits in mapped flood zones, and federal flood rules count filling and grading there as development. New Iberia's own code does too, and the city requires a floodplain development permit. So in the city, that permit comes before the first load of fill. The USDA notes that unprotected areas of the Iberia clay flood commonly.
In the City of New Iberia, freeboard must be one foot above the base flood elevation. The city's design flood elevation is that base flood elevation plus one foot of freeboard. All construction in the city's special flood hazard areas must meet it.
In Lafayette, the city-parish flood code covers new or substantially improved homes, manufactured homes included. Their lowest floor goes no lower than one foot above the base flood elevation. That code counts a building raised on fill as an elevated building. Your builder, engineer or surveyor sets the pad height, and we build to that number.
HUD calls it a manufactured home, formerly known as a mobile home. Its installation standard puts the foundation on firm, undisturbed soil to help prevent settling or sagging. The other option is fill compacted to at least 90 percent of its maximum relative density. Grass, roots, twigs and wood scraps come out where the footings go.
HUD's standard slopes the ground at least one-half inch per foot away from the foundation, for the first ten feet. That keeps water from building up under the home. On some lots, the soil looks like peat, organic clay or uncompacted fill. On those lots, a registered professional engineer, geologist or architect decides the soil class and bearing capacity.
New Iberia requires a moving permit to move a mobile home into, out of or within city limits. On a private lot, it must replace a mobile home that sat there within the last six months. In the city's A1-30, AH or AE flood zones, a manufactured home placed outside a park needs a permanent foundation. The bottom of its main I-beam must sit at or above the base flood elevation.
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 house pads 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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Jason was a pleasure to do business with. He had a fair price and did excellent work. I will definitely use Elite Excavation Services again in the future
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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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