Fill Dirt Delivery
We haul fill dirt, select fill, topsoil, sand, gravel and crushed limestone by the load. It can be dumped where you want it or spread and graded with the skid steer.
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A mobile home pad is the raised dirt pad a single wide or double wide sits on. Dupree's Dirt and Excavation builds it from select fill compacted in lifts, then slopes the edges to shed water. The plastic or concrete pier pads under the blocking go on top of it later, placed by the installer.
We are based in Bastrop and build mobile home pads across northeast Louisiana, from Minden to Tallulah. Our excavator and skid steer move the dirt, and our dump truck hauls the fill. Building for a house, a shop, a garage or a barn instead? That pad is part of our house pad and site prep work.
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Wet ground is the main reason. Perry clay is the biggest soil in Morehouse Parish, and the soil survey rates it poorly drained. Water moves through it very slowly, so rain stands on flat ground. Hebert soils, the second biggest, hold a water table 1.5 to 3 feet down from December through April.
Bastrop gets about 58 inches of rain in a normal year. A pad of compacted fill lifts the home up out of that wet ground. Federal installation standards ask for drainage that keeps water from building up under the home.
Parishes in the federal flood insurance program adopt rules for mapped AE and AH flood zones. A mobile home there, outside a park, must have its lowest floor at or above the base flood elevation. The home must be anchored as well. A taller compacted pad is one common way to get the home up there.
Louisiana's installation standards put proper site preparation on the landowner, and that is where we come in. The installer works to a federal standard, and we build the pad so the site can meet it. That standard wants grass, roots, twigs and wood scraps removed where the footings go. So we strip the topsoil and roots down to firm ground first.
Then the select fill comes in, hauled by the load in our dump truck. It goes down in lifts, and each lift is compacted before the next one. Under that standard, fill beneath the foundation must be compacted to at least 90 percent of its maximum relative density.
We build the top flat under the home and size it off the home's footprint. Around it we leave working room for the setup crew, and the ground slopes away so rain runs off. The standard wants that fall at least a half inch per foot for the first ten feet.
Most rural home sites need land clearing before the pad goes in. We push and pull the brush and trees with the excavator and dig out the stumps and root balls. Debris gets hauled off in our dump truck or stacked where you want it. Louisiana 811 gets called before we dig.
The delivery truck needs a firm way in to the pad. We cut in a gravel drive from the road, wide enough for that truck. Soft, wet clay can bog it down. Spring is Bastrop's wettest season and fall its driest, so plan the dirt work around the weather.
Replacing an old mobile home starts with tearing out the old one. We take it down with the excavator and grapple and haul it off in our dump truck. Then soft spots in the old pad get dug out, and fresh fill brings it back to height.
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 mobile home pads across Bastrop, Monroe and about 60 miles around. If yours is not here, call and ask.
We haul fill dirt, select fill, topsoil, sand, gravel and crushed limestone by the load. It can be dumped where you want it or spread and graded with the skid steer.
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We clear lots, home sites, fence lines and grown-up acreage with the excavator and the skid steer. Stumps and root balls come out, the debris is hauled off, and the ground is smoothed back down.
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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.
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.
How much does fill dirt cost in Louisiana? Published prices per yard, per ton and per dump truck load, plus how to figure the yards your job needs.
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How much does a house pad cost in Louisiana? Published fill dirt ranges, the cubic yard math, and a full worked example for a 40 by 60 slab pad.
Read more →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.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.