Elite Excavation Services handles excavation and demolition in St. Martinville, 9 miles up LA 31 from New Iberia. Both towns sit on Bayou Teche, so the drive is short and we get there fast. We come out and look at the job before quoting. Most of what we run here is residential: tear downs, lot clearing, house pads, gravel drives, and culverts. Estimates are free, and the number is (337) 201-0594.
St. Martinville grew from an old French and Acadian settlement on Bayou Teche. The property here shows that age, and most homes in the 70582 area date to the 1950s and 1960s. We get called for small wood houses, detached garages, sheds, and mobile homes that have sat empty for years. Taking one down near downtown takes care, because the lots are narrow and the houses sit close. Outside the town limits the land opens into sugarcane, pasture, and low ground along the bayou. Those tracts need brush knocked back, pads built up, and roadside ditches that drain. St. Martinville is the parish seat, so the courthouse and the permit office are both right in town. We cover this side of St. Martin Parish, from Cade and Cemetery Road out toward Coteau Holmes and Catahoula.
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Most of our demolition work on older St. Martinville homes is residential. The structures are small and old: a leaning garage, a rotted shed, an empty mobile home. Owners usually call once the building starts dragging down the rest of the lot. We take the structure down and haul it off, then grade the ground flat.
The equipment fits the job. Compact and mini excavators work well on narrow St. Martinville lots where a big machine cannot turn. Downtown that matters, because many of those lots sit inside the St. Martinville Historic District and the streets are tight. Debris leaves in roll-off containers and dump trailers, so nothing sits at the curb for weeks.
Concrete comes out too. Old slabs, cracked driveways, and pads left by a torn down building get broken up and hauled away. Utilities have to be disconnected before we start, and Louisiana rules can require an asbestos survey on some buildings. That mostly applies to commercial and multi-unit structures, and we work around that timeline.
Once you leave town, St. Martin Parish turns rural fast. LA 96 runs east toward Catahoula, and LA 679 heads out through Coteau Holmes. LA 31 runs north to Parks with sugarcane on both sides. Land out there grows over fast in this climate.
Land clearing on rural St. Martin Parish tracts usually starts with underbrushing. We cut and pull the brush, briars, and small trees that have taken the lot. Bigger stumps get dug out with an excavator rather than ground down. Everything loads into containers and leaves the property.
Ground conditions set the schedule. Acadiana sits on heavy clay with a high water table, and low ground holds water for days after rain. We watch the weather and work the dry windows so the machines do not tear up the lot. When we finish, the ground is shaped so water keeps moving off it.
The ground around St. Martinville is flat and low, so water has nowhere to run. A new build needs a house pad raised above the surrounding grade. An existing yard that ponds after every rain needs the low spots filled and the lot pitched. We do site prep, pad building, land leveling, and lot grading.
Gravel driveways take a beating on this soil. We install new gravel drives, regrade rutted ones, and top off drives that have thinned. On long rural drives off LA 347 and LA 679, the crown matters as much as the rock. A drive that sheds water lasts far longer than one that holds it.
Most rural parcels here drain into a roadside ditch, and the driveway crosses it. Culvert installation for driveway ditches has to match that ditch, or water backs up onto the property. We set the pipe, trench for drainage, and tie the drive back into the road. Check with the St. Martin Parish permit office first, since a driveway onto a state highway goes through Louisiana DOTD.
Bayou Teche runs right through the middle of St. Martinville. LA 96 crosses it on East Bridge Street over a swing bridge that dates to 1942. Lots along the water are some of the oldest in town, and back access is tight. Compact equipment and dump trailers get in where a full size rig cannot.
Storms are the other reason the phone rings. After a hurricane or a heavy rain event, yards fill with downed limbs, whole trees, and torn off roofing. We clear it, load it into roll-off containers, and haul it off the property. Construction and demolition debris goes the same way.
Farm and recreational ponds are part of the work out here, along with crawfish pond digging and cleanout. Crawfish and sugarcane run the rural economy in St. Martin Parish, and both depend on how the water sits. We work St. Martinville and excavation in Breaux Bridge on the same runs, 13 miles apart on the same bayou. Call (337) 201-0594 and we will come look at it.
Communities & areas we serve around St. Martinville: St. Martinville Historic District, Downtown St. Martinville, Cemetery Road (LA 347), Squirrel Hollow, Coteau Holmes, Catahoula, Cade, Parks.
St. Martinville ZIP codes served: 70582.
Free, no-obligation estimates throughout St. Martin Parish.
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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 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: house pads, site prep, lot grading and yard leveling. Our excavators and track loader move, spread and pack fill to the grade you need. Call for a free estimate.
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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 St. Martinville. 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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