Culvert for driveway
 

I'm about to start building a house and need to place a culvert in the ditch to put my driveway on. Anybody know where they sell them in the New Iberia/Lafayette area for a good price?

Acadiana Shell and Limestone in Abbeville. I drove past it the other day on my way to Intracoastal City and saw a bunch outside.

I found that vermillion shell and limestone was way cheaper than any others when I bought some a few months ago.

Yeh I have never bought a culvert before, I dont know about prices. I just know I saw a bunch on their lot the other day.

If you are looking for the plastic type, Coburn Supply has them. Ther are next to Franks on Verot.

There's some on e domingue too......I wanna say near he bayou? ??

Need to check to see if there are any City/parish ordances on what you can use for a culvert.

My area now requires a Concrete culvert.

There is a place in Eunice that sells the corragated black plastic pipes. They had best price in SW Louisiana [that I could find] 10 years ago. I don't know the name of the place.

you have to watch though I just put in a culvert and a plastic culvert would have been more expensive because of the fact calcasieu parish wanted me to dig 6" under the culvert and backfill with rock then cover the sides and 12" above the culvert with rock then the rest could be my chosing, culvert was going to be like 500 with me picking it up and rock i was looking at around 600, plus clay for the top; concrete on the other hand for an 18" culvert was $610 for 24' of culvert delivered and I set it with some comalongs. Then i just got 2 loads of 60/40 clay to cover at $90 a load, a lot cheaper

My dad wanted to put a new one in front of his house.
Calcasieu Parish made him pay a $25 fee for an inspector to come out and tell him
that he could not put one in front of his house.
He did not like that.

Thats alot of money!! More than I would have ever thought..........steal plate over the ditch???? Sounds easier and cheaper...........there's one down the street covering a hole that the city dug, I'll help you load it............

wow thats kind of stupid, of course I've since learned that you have to buy a permit to dig a pond, however they do not even come and inspect where or anything they just want the money. I believe it was like $85.

thats one way to flush your system just strain:work::rotfl:

Yeah check with the parish! I had to pull a permit for mine as well and they required a black coated steel culvert. On the flipside, they came and set and put dirt over the top of it for me. Not bad for a $15 permit, if you ask me.

Longside, see if you can't swindle Pookie in too lying down in the ditch for ya, Problem solved....J/K Jordan!!

city wanted to dig a drainage ditch through my back yard and leave it, if i wanted it covered they would install the culvert but i would have to buy it, i think i got quoted between 2500.00 anf 3000.00 the run across the back yard . i told em to get lost . so they put a catch basin in the back corner and it works fine

Ive bought quite a few culverts in the past,and Vermillion shell at the port of Iberia,has always had the best prices. You may want to check with Iberia aggregates at the port also. The guy that runs it used to work at vermillion. You can use plastic down here,just hafta know what size to put. Just check your neighbors on either side-if they are the same size, go with that. the parish used to put them in for you,but now you hafta hire someone ,or do it yourself. I covered my whole 160' feet myself a few years back,after the parish screwed up my driveway culvert. Got my tractor and transit and put em in

Def get a permit...
Me and my old roommate put one in... City game by dug it up and left us a bill for them didding it up and a fine for not havin a permit...
So get Ur permit first....

yeah "roommate":rotfl: was you the pitcher or catcher:*****::*****:

Bad part is....I don't have any neighbors lol. There's a culvert not far though so I'll get that measurement and use the same size as that one to keep it consistent.

lmao That's just wrong :*****:

You might contact the Parish drainage board.....first, to see what they say.

A couple of years ago, a neighbor was fixin to cover his ditches. When i saw the culverts [~ 12"], I knew they were too small to handle a good rain. I called the drainage board and had them come out.

He agreed that the "permited" pipe size needed to be larger and changed it to 15".

I live 2 houses down from this house and the neighborhood plot plan calls for 30" for my lot. The parish inspector told me that a 24" culvert might be approved for my ditch if I got it covered.

Yes, the "common sense" things will definately be covered. I'm not all about pulling things back up to do them all over again because of permit/incorrect issues.

Make sure and check with zoning about the size of the culvert. You don't wanna put one in and then have code enforcement out there making you dig it up and replace it because it is too big or too small diameter.

oops, didn't read the whole thread, my bad, it was already covered.

Longside, if you go with plastic, corrugated pipe, make sure it is lined. If you get a permit they will probably inform you of this.