Driveways
New concrete driveways, replacements, extensions and parking pads for homes across Acadiana. The apron and the culvert at the street are part of the job, and the quote comes in writing.
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About half the homes in New Iberia were built in 1975 or earlier. On a house that age, the driveway can be cracked across the middle and sunk at the street. Water can stand on the back patio after a rain, and the yard can stay soggy for days. Outside the city limits, a newer house may still need a patio and a walk.
RockSolid Contracting is a concrete contractor based in Lafayette, and we come over on US 90, about 20 miles southeast. In New Iberia we pour new concrete driveways, patios, walkways and slabs. We also take down old sheds and carports and fix yards that hold water. Call or text (337) 520-8615, and we will look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Tell us about the driveway, slab, drainage problem or teardown and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
New Iberia calls itself the Queen City of the Teche, and a lot of its housing is older. Census figures show about three in ten homes went up before 1960. More than four in ten went up from 1960 to 1989. Only about one in twenty dates from 2010 or later.
The Steamboat House went up in the 1890s in the old residential section, between East Main Street and Bayou Teche. It was built as a raised house on brick piers. Leveling an older house is a job for a foundation repair company, and the concrete around it is ours.
A driveway poured with a 1970s house is about 50 years old now. If it has cracked and sunk at the street, we saw-cut the bad section. If the damage runs the whole length, we tear out the whole driveway and haul the rubble off. Then the new driveway is formed and poured, sloped so water runs off.
About half the ground around the middle of town is Jeanerette silt loam. NRCS rates it somewhat poorly drained. In most years it is wet below 1 to 2.5 feet from December through April.
Roughly a quarter is clay: the Baldwin and Iberia soils, which NRCS rates high to very high for shrink-swell. Clay like that swells when it gets wet and shrinks as it dries. NRCS warns that this movement can damage buildings and roads. In normal years the Iberia clay also holds water within 2 feet of the surface from December through April.
That is why the base under the concrete matters here. We pour a slab for a shop or a carport on a compacted base with rebar or wire mesh. Control joints go in so the shrinkage cracks land where they belong.
Bayou Teche runs right through New Iberia. About a fifth of the city's land sits in FEMA's high-risk flood zones. After the August 2016 flood, homeowners in the New Iberia area filed 2,271 valid registrations with FEMA. You can look up any address on FEMA's flood map site.
Inside the city, the Public Works Department installs and repairs drainage and hands out sandbags when flooding threatens. For service outside the city limits, the city tells residents to call the Parish Barn. Iberia Parish Public Works keeps up about 815 miles of canals and drainage ditches.
On a flat lot, water that cannot soak in stands in the low spots or runs back toward the house. Water against the house often calls for a French drain, a gravel trench with perforated pipe. Water sheeting across the yard calls for yard drainage, like a catch basin or a swale. A swale is a shallow graded ditch that carries water away.
Inside the city limits, permits come from the Permit and Inspection Department in City Hall. The city says a permit must be obtained for any and all work before it begins. Sheds need their own permit, and they have to stay out of the front setback. For a driveway or a patio, ask the office what it needs before the pour is scheduled.
Tearing down a structure in the city takes a demolition permit. When it is issued, the city asks how the debris will be disposed of. The city also issues permits for digging and filling work. State law requires a call to Louisiana 811 at least two full business days before digging or demolition begins.
Outside the city limits, the Iberia Parish Permit Office covers the construction of any structure. The parish also asks residents to keep structures off drainage easements. Check your plat for one before a shop slab is laid out.
Communities and areas we serve around New Iberia: Historic Downtown, East Main Street, Silver Acres, Acadian Acres, Evergreen Acres, Oakwood Place, Squirrel Run, Teche Ridge, Belle Terre, Loreauville, Jeanerette.
New Iberia ZIP codes served: 70560, 70563.
We come over from Lafayette, look at the job and put the quote in writing.
(337) 520-8615 New concrete driveways, replacements, extensions and parking pads for homes across Acadiana. The apron and the culvert at the street are part of the job, and the quote comes in writing.
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Concrete patios, porch slabs, walkways and sidewalks with a broom finish. Each one slopes away from the house so rain runs off.
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Concrete slabs and pads for shops, metal buildings, carports and sheds on your land around Lafayette. Each one goes down on a compacted base, with the steel set before the truck arrives.
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We pour slab foundations and footings for houses, additions, garages and outbuildings around Lafayette. Each one is dug and poured to the builder's or engineer's plan.
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We break out cracked or sunken driveways, patios, walks and slabs and haul the rubble off. Where a new slab goes in, we grade the base and pour new concrete.
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We take down sheds, carports, patio covers, decks, fences, small garages and old slabs. The debris goes on the dump trailer and the ground is raked clean.
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We install French drains for soggy yards and for wet ground along the house. The pipe sits in washed gravel and filter fabric, sloped to an outlet.
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Catch basins, channel drains, downspout lines, swales and driveway culverts for yards that hold water. We give rainwater a path away from the house and off the lot.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around New Iberia. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us about the job and the town it is in, and text us photos if you have them. Call or text (337) 520-8615 or use the form, and we will get back to you.
Tell us about the driveway, slab, drainage problem or teardown and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.