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Demolition Contractors New Orleans Owners Call for Residential Work
Residential demolition is really several different trades sharing the same machines. Taking down a raised cottage, breaking out a backyard pool and gutting a flooded kitchen each call for a different plan, different paperwork and a different finish. Pick the job that matches yours below, or read through all five if your property needs more than one.
Matching the service to the job in front of you
The biggest dividing line is whether a whole building is coming down. A full teardown brings in the asbestos inspection, the state notice, utility shutoffs and a city or parish permit before any machine arrives, and it ends with foundation removal and fill that has to stay put on soft ground. Smaller removals in the yard usually involve lighter equipment and simpler logistics, though they still change how water moves across your lot.
Interior work is its own category. The walls and roof remain, a family might be sleeping one room over, and every surface left behind needs shielding from grit and gouges. Concrete work sits somewhere in between: the material is heavy and slow to break, but the result is usually a clean base ready for whatever replaces it.
Around Gretna and the rest of the metro, many jobs cross these lines. An owner clearing a storm-damaged lot might need the house, a detached garage, a pool and a cracked driveway all gone at once. When that happens, list everything together so the contractor can plan one scope instead of several separate visits.
Every page below explains how that kind of work proceeds in this region, what affects the cost, and what the property should look like when the contractor packs up. None of them list prices, because the contractor prices each job after seeing it. If you are not sure which page fits, the contact page is the simplest place to describe what you have, and the service areas page shows which communities are covered.
The five residential demolition services
House Demolition, Gretna LA: From First Walk-Through to a Graded Lot
Taking a whole house down on the West Bank is less about the excavator and more about everything that has to happen before it rolls onto the lot. The building needs an asbestos inspection, the gas and power have to be cut by the companies that own those lines, the sewer gets capped, and the city or parish has to sign off. Only then does the house come apart, in an order that keeps debris off the neighbors. After that the piers or slab come out, and the ground is filled and shaped so it sheds water instead of holding it. This page walks through that sequence for raised and slab houses in Gretna and nearby parishes.
Garage, Shed and Carport Demolition Around Gretna and the West Bank
A leaning garage, a carport with a rusted-through roof, a shed that took on two feet of water: small structures are where a lot of yards around Gretna start looking tired. Taking one down is a smaller job than a whole house, but it has its own puzzles. The equipment has to reach the backyard without wrecking the lawn or cracking the driveway. Any wiring run out to the building has to be made dead first. Someone has to decide whether the slab stays as a patio or comes out with everything else. Below you will find how freestanding garages, sheds, carports, decks, gazebos and barns get removed, plus how a properly finished yard should look once the last load is gone.
Pool removal for Gretna, the West Bank and New Orleans backyards
A pool that nobody swims in still costs something every month: chemicals, a pump that hums, a cover that collects rainwater and mosquitoes, and a hole in the yard that you cannot plant, park on or build over. Across Gretna, the West Bank and the East Bank suburbs, plenty of older concrete and vinyl pools have outlived the families who put them in, and a few were never right after Katrina or Ida. Taking one out is a real earthwork job, not a weekend chore. This page walks through the two main ways to remove a pool, what each leaves behind under your lawn, how the soft ground here changes the fill work, and what a contractor needs to see before putting a number on it.
Interior demolition and gut-outs for Gretna and New Orleans homes
Interior demolition is the careful kind of tearing out. The house stays standing, the roof stays on, and often people are still living in the rooms next door. Around Gretna and the rest of the New Orleans area, this work usually starts for one of two reasons: a kitchen or bathroom remodel that needs a clean shell to build in, or water that came in during a storm and left wet drywall, swollen floors and soggy insulation behind. Either way, the goal is the same. Take out exactly what has to go, protect everything that stays, keep the dust and debris under control, and hand the remodeler or rebuilder a space that is open, dry and ready for the next trade.
Concrete removal for sunken driveways, cracked patios and old slabs around Gretna
Concrete on this side of Louisiana rarely wears out from traffic. It fails from below. Soft clay and organic soil compress under the weight, rain washes fine material out from under the edges, and a driveway that was level when it was poured ends up tilted toward the house, split into islands and trapping water. Patios drop away from the back step and walks heave around roots. This page covers how that concrete gets broken, lifted out and hauled off, what makes one job harder than another, and how the ground gets left so the next pour, or the new lawn, has a fair chance.
Talk through your site
Describe the structure or slab you want gone, and a contractor working both banks of the river will take a look.