Demolition
We take down houses, mobile homes, sheds, barns and small commercial buildings. The debris gets loaded out and hauled off, so the lot is clear when we leave.
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J-Rod's Dirt Work does mobile home demolition in Hammond, Louisiana and out to about 50 miles in every direction. We tear the home down where it sits and haul every piece off the lot. Single-wides and double-wides both come down the same way. Add-on porches, roof-overs, skirting, steps and decks go with it. So do the piers, the blocks, the tie-downs and the steel frame with its axles. What is left is bare ground you can build on or sell.
Most of these calls sound alike. The home took storm damage, or water got in and the floors went soft. Some have sat empty for years and nobody wants to step inside. Some are sitting in the spot where a new home is going. We take it down either way. This page covers mobile homes and manufactured homes. For houses, barns and shop buildings, see our demolition work on houses and outbuildings.
Tell us about the job and the ground. We will get right back to you.
Every job starts with a free estimate at the property. We look at the home and what is built onto it. We also check how close it sits to fences, trees and the power line. We find where a truck can back in and turn around. Then you get an estimate and a rough date.
The whole home leaves. The floor, the walls, the roof and the steel frame under it all go on the truck. Add-on porches, roof-overs, carports, wood decks and steps come off with it. Skirting, blocks, piers and tie-down anchors come out of the ground. If the home sat on a concrete pad, breaking out concrete is part of the same job.
We tear the home down on site. We do not move homes to a new lot. Manufactured housing is a big share of what people live in around here. About one in five homes in Tangipahoa Parish is a mobile home. Across Louisiana the figure is closer to one in eight.
Weather is hard on them. Hurricane Ida's eastern eyewall crossed the west side of the parish in 2021. Its winds downed trees and power lines parish wide. The National Weather Service reported roof failure and falling tree damage to buildings across Tangipahoa Parish. The August 2016 flood dropped 20 to 30 inches of rain on Southeast Louisiana in three days. The Weather Service put that at 50,000 to 75,000 structures flooded. Record flooding hit the Tangipahoa and Natalbany rivers.
Power, water and gas all have to be off at the home before a machine touches it. Call each utility, have the service cut and get the meter pulled. The City of Hammond asks for the utility cutoff date right on its demolition permit form. That same form puts the sealing of abandoned water, sewer, gas and electrical lines on the property owner. Start here, because the rest of the job waits on it.
Pull out anything you want to keep. Tools, appliances, furniture and whatever is stored under the home. Anything left inside goes out with the home and adds weight to the load.
Then there is the title. Louisiana treats a mobile home like a titled vehicle. State law puts factory-built homes under the same certificate of title chapter as cars and trucks. If yours was immobilized, a declaration went in the parish conveyance records. The home became part of the real property instead. Ask the Office of Motor Vehicles or the parish clerk what to do with the paperwork. Do it before the home is gone.
Permits depend on the address. Inside the city, Hammond has its own demolition permit form. It asks what kind of structure is coming down and where the debris gets trucked. Outside the city, the parish permit office in Hammond takes calls at (985) 542-2117. Its posted permit list does not include a demolition permit, so call and ask what your lot needs.
The excavator does the work. We start at one end and break the home down in sections, so the pile stays where we want it. The skid steer works close in and cleans up behind it. Loads go out as we go, and the steel frame and axles leave with the metal. Trucks run until the lot is empty.
Then the ground gets cleared. Piers, blocks, tie-down anchors and buried skirting come out with the machine. Steps and porch footings come up too. Pulling piers leaves holes, so we backfill them with clean fill dirt and pack it down. That keeps the spot from settling on you later.
When the last load leaves, we pick up what is left in the dirt. We also fill the ruts our machines made. Then we rough grade the footprint so water runs off instead of standing. The lot mows from there. If a new home is going in the same spot, the pad has to be built up. Our site prep for the new pad handles that. We take mobile home jobs in Hammond, Ponchatoula, Amite City, Denham Springs, Covington and out into southern Mississippi. Call or text (985) 500-4145 for a free estimate.
Free, no-obligation estimates across a 50-mile radius of Hammond.
(985) 500-4145From the first call or text to the finished ground, here is how it goes.
Reach us at (985) 500-4145. Tell us the address and what the ground needs. A photo or two helps us size the job.
We drive out and look the property over. We check how the machines get in and where the water goes, then size up what has to move.
You get a price for the work, with the scope spelled out. Take your time with it. The estimate is free either way.
Once you say go, we set a day that fits your build schedule and the weather. Wet ground can push a job, and we tell you when it does.
The crew runs the skid steer or the excavator and works the job through. Debris and extra dirt get hauled off as we go.
We smooth the ground to final grade and clean up behind us. Then we go over the finished job with you before the machines leave.
Common questions about mobile home demolition across a 50-mile radius of Hammond. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We take down houses, mobile homes, sheds, barns and small commercial buildings. The debris gets loaded out and hauled off, so the lot is clear when we leave.
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We take a lot from raw ground to a pad you can build on. Fill placed and compacted in lifts, rough grade set, and access roughed in for the trucks.
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We break out old driveways, slabs, patios, sidewalks and footings and haul the pieces off. The ground gets graded smooth or built back up with fill.
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We sell fill dirt and haul it to your property. Loads get dumped where you want them, spread out, and packed down so the ground holds.
Learn MoreNobody prices your job from behind a desk. We walk the ground, check the access and where the water goes, and price the work from what we see.
Send us the address and tell us what needs doing. We come look at the ground, then give you a price for the job. The estimate costs nothing.
We run out to Baton Rouge, Covington, New Orleans, and up into southern Mississippi. If your property sits inside 50 miles of Hammond, we can get a machine there.
We work house lots and job sites for builders and businesses. A backyard that holds water and a commercial pad both get the same machine time and the same attention.
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Read more →Call or text (985) 500-4145, or send the form and we will get back to you. Tell us the address and what the ground needs, and we will set up a free estimate.
Tell us about the job and the ground. We will get right back to you.