Carencro sits about 30 miles north of New Iberia, up I-49 on the far side of Lafayette. We run excavation and demolition work here most weeks. Carencro has been the fastest growing city in Louisiana for five years running. New rooftops stand where cane fields and pasture used to be. City leaders have talked about roughly 1,500 house lots in active development at a time. That growth changes what a property owner has to deal with. A lot that sat quiet for decades now needs a pad and a driveway. We handle that work with mini excavators, a compact track loader and dump trailers.
Most of our Carencro work is residential. Tearing down an old house, a mobile home, a barn or a carport. Clearing brush off a back lot, or building a pad up so the slab sits high enough. Digging in a gravel drive with a culvert under it. The ground here is heavy clay and the water table sits close to the surface. Dirt that grades clean in August turns to soup after a wet week. We plan around that instead of fighting it. Estimates are free, and we look at the actual site before quoting.
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Carencro's builders keep a steady run of lots moving. DSLD Homes opened Willowbrook off North University Avenue and Ira Street. Manuel Builders has Cameron's Cove north of Gloria Switch and West Point Estates off West Gloria Switch Road. D.R. Horton has been putting plans in Stable View. Every one of those houses starts with dirt.
We build house pads, level lots and cut grade so water runs off the slab. Heavy clay takes more fill than most owners expect. Compaction matters as much as the fill itself. When you need dirt work and house pads in Carencro, the pad decides how the rest of the build goes.
Carencro's Planning Division uses a freeboard elevation form before the slab goes in. It sets a lowest required floor elevation, usually a foot above base flood elevation or the street centerline. A licensed surveyor, engineer or architect certifies the numbers and sets a construction benchmark. We build the pad to hit that mark, then shoot it again before the forms go up.
It depends on which side of the city line your property sits on. Inside the city limits, the City of Carencro handles building, driveway and mobile home permits through its Planning Division. Outside those limits, Lafayette Consolidated Government covers the unincorporated parish. We deal with both offices, and with the same split on excavation work in Lafayette just south of here.
A Carencro mailing address does not always put you inside the city. ZIP 70520 covers several times the ground the city itself does. Plenty of homes on the country roads around town carry a Carencro address and fall under parish rules. Call the city first and ask which office covers your address.
Lafayette Consolidated Government issues building, mobile home, floodplain development and land disturbance permits. Construction work can also fall under LDEQ stormwater rules. Larger clearing and grading jobs are usually where that comes up. We line the paperwork up with the schedule so the machine can start on time.
The country lots are part of why people move out here. Coteau Ridge is a gated subdivision with lots over 1.3 acres and two ponds. Lots that size need a driveway built on a stone base. We cut the base, lay stone and crown it so water sheds off both sides.
Almost every rural drive in Lafayette Parish crosses a roadside ditch. A gravel driveway install in Carencro means a culvert, and the pipe has to match what the ditch carries. The city's permit form asks for driveway width, culvert length and the distance from the property corner. It also asks whether the corners and the pipe are staked before work starts.
The city's form lists a $200 fee for a driveway permit. Confirm the current amount when you apply. A city inspector verifies the pipe the same day it goes in, which puts the whole install on one clock. We set the pipe, backfill it and finish the drive on the same trip.
The land coming into development here was cane, pasture or woods. Some of it has sat untouched for decades. Brush, briars and volunteer trees take a lot over fast in this climate. We clear lots and underbrush tracts with an excavator and a track loader, then haul the material off.
Demolition around Carencro runs to houses, mobile homes, barns, carports and small commercial buildings. Old slabs and driveways come out too. Debris leaves the site in roll-off containers. Louisiana requires notification to LDEQ on some demolitions, mostly commercial and multi-unit structures. Abatement work goes to a licensed abatement contractor.
When a parcel is headed for a slab, the clearing and the dirt work run together. We take the growth off, pull stumps with the excavator and set grade in one mobilization. That matters on land clearing on Carencro acreage, where moving equipment in and out drives real cost.
Communities & areas we serve around Carencro: Coteau Ridge, Willowbrook, Cameron's Cove, West Point Estates, Stable View, Briarfield, Cajun Acres, Gloria Switch.
Carencro ZIP codes served: 70520.
We handle demolition on houses, mobile homes, garages, barns and carports, plus small commercial buildings. We also break out and haul off old concrete slabs and driveways. Free estimates across Acadiana.
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We build new gravel driveways and rebuild the ones that have washed out or gone to potholes. Crushed limestone gets shaped with a crown so rain runs to the sides. Free estimates around New Iberia and Acadiana.
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We install driveway culverts and replace crushed or rusted pipe across Acadiana. Every pipe gets set to the ditch grade so water drains instead of backing up. Free estimates on culvert installation in New Iberia and the surrounding parishes.
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Debris removal for piles too heavy to move by hand. We load construction, demolition and storm debris with an excavator or track loader. The load leaves in a roll-off container or dump trailer.
View DetailsA few of the questions we hear most around Carencro. If yours is not here, call and ask. The person who answers runs the jobs.
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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