Demolition
We take houses, mobile homes, sheds, barns and garages down with our excavator and grapple. The debris leaves in our dump truck and the lot gets graded behind it.
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Concrete removal is the job when an old slab or driveway has to come out. It may be cracked and heaved, or left behind after a teardown or a storm. Dupree's Dirt and Excavation breaks it out with our tracked excavator and hauls it away. It is part of our demolition work, and it also runs as a job on its own.
We are based in Bastrop and break out concrete in Monroe and about 60 miles around. The excavator's bucket and thumb pull the concrete up in pieces, rebar and wire and all. Every load leaves in our dump truck for a permitted landfill. We backfill and grade the hole for a new pad, a gravel drive, grass or a slab poured by others.
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It starts with a Louisiana 811 ticket. State law puts that notice on whoever does the excavation or demolition, so we file it. It goes in at least 48 hours and no more than 120 hours ahead, not counting weekends and holidays.
Concrete breaking starts at an edge. The bucket gets under the slab and lifts until it snaps into pieces the thumb can grip. Each piece is pinned against the bucket and set in our dump truck. Rebar and wire mesh come out with the concrete they were cast in.
Once the concrete is out, we look at the ground it sat on. Soft or wet spots get dug out, and the skid steer spreads good dirt back in, compacted in lifts. Then finish grading sets the spot so water runs off.
Much of it starts in the ground under the slab. The heavy backswamp clays of the Delta and the river bottoms shrink as they dry and swell as they wet. In most years, Sharkey clay opens cracks 1 to 3 centimeters wide and 20 to 24 inches deep. The soil survey's sample profile for that clay sits in a field outside Tallulah.
Perry clay is the Morehouse Parish version, and its official sample profile comes from the parish. It is the same swelling kind of clay, and it drains very slowly. A slab on that ground rises and drops as the clay wets and dries. Over the years it cracks through or lifts at a corner.
Breaking out the old slab is only the first step on ground like this. In Louisiana, a new slab usually sits on a select fill pad built up and packed down in lifts. The new slab itself is poured by a concrete contractor.
Concrete driveway removal comes up when a drive has broken into slabs that tip and rock. Some owners have a new drive poured by a concrete contractor. Others switch to rock, and we build a gravel driveway on the same strip once the concrete is gone.
Patio removal and sidewalk removal happen close to the house, where service lines often run. The law's tolerance zone is the marked line's width plus 18 inches to each side. Louisiana 811 calls for hand tools or a non-invasive method inside that zone.
Foundation removal goes deeper than a slab. Footings and piers run below the ground, and the excavator digs them out. A shop or barn slab in the wrong spot comes out the same way. On a mobile home lot, the concrete pads under the piers come up too.
Free estimates and site visits across Bastrop, Monroe and about 60 miles around.
(318) 614-2073From the first call to the final grade, here is how it goes.
Call (318) 614-2073 and tell us what the property needs. We ask a few questions about size, access and what you want at the end.
We come out and look at the ground, the access and where the water sits. Seeing it is the only way to price it right.
You get a price for the work and a plain list of what is included. The estimate is free.
Louisiana 811 is called before we dig, and any permit the job needs is sorted out first. Then the machines and the truck go to work.
The ground is graded back out and the debris is gone. We take a last look over it with you before we pull off.
Common questions about concrete removal across Bastrop, Monroe and about 60 miles around. If yours is not here, call and ask.
We take houses, mobile homes, sheds, barns and garages down with our excavator and grapple. The debris leaves in our dump truck and the lot gets graded behind it.
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We build and rebuild gravel driveways, long rural drives and parking pads across northeast Louisiana. The base is cut and shaped first, then rock is hauled in our dump truck and spread.
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We level and grade yards, lots and acreage around Bastrop. Low spots get filled, high ground gets cut, and the surface is sloped so water leaves.
Learn MoreWe are based in Bastrop and work northeast Louisiana, from Minden on the west side to Tallulah on the east.
The tracked excavator, the skid steer and the dump truck belong to us. Digging, grading and hauling all come from the same company.
Clearing, the pad, the drive and the final grade all run through us. You deal with the same company the whole way.
We come out and look at the ground before we put a price on it, and that visit is free.
Tell us where the property is and what you want done, and we will set a time to come look. Call (318) 614-2073, or fill out the form and we will get back to you.
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