DuCar Construction is a licensed general contractor in Metairie — residential and commercial, licensed statewide in Louisiana. Our office is on Papworth Avenue, so the people who priced your job are the people who show up to it.
Ground-up building on your lot — plans, permits, site work and construction under one signed contract and one point of responsibility.
Down to the framing and back up. Structure, systems and finishes, with the scope written before demolition starts.
New square footage tied into an existing structure — new loads through old framing, matched elevations, a roofline that reads as original.
Build-outs, shells and renovations along Veterans, Causeway and the office corridors, under our Louisiana commercial license, COMM 63084.
Metairie is unincorporated, so plans go to Jefferson Parish Inspection and Code Enforcement rather than to a city permit office. Kenner, a few minutes west, runs its own department. We file with the office that governs your address and build its calendar into the schedule before the contract is signed.
Most of Metairie sits on slab. Moving a kitchen or adding a bathroom means cutting and repouring concrete, and the soil under that slab moves with the water table. We look at the slab, the settlement and the lot drainage before we price the layout you want.
There is no HDLC review here, which removes a long step. What governs instead is parish zoning, subdivision setbacks and servitudes, and those decide how far an addition can actually go before plans are drawn.
The zone your lot sits in sets the elevation requirement and drives the insurance that follows it, and it changes across the parish. We pull the flood zone and the elevation certificate before we price the foundation.
South Louisiana wind requirements govern framing, sheathing, fastening and roof assembly. DuCar is a FORTIFIED Contractor, certified to build to the IBHS FORTIFIED Roof™ standard; a qualifying designation may also reduce the hurricane portion of your homeowners premium, though actual savings depend on your property, zone, insurer and policy.
We also build custom homes in Metairie, work as a general contractor in New Orleans, and cover Kenner, the Northshore, commercial construction and FORTIFIED™ roofing.
Louisiana RES 883334 and COMM 63084 — residential and commercial, statewide — plus a Mississippi residential builder license (No. 22946). We are building in Mississippi right now.
A+ with the Better Business Bureau and a 5.0-star reputation across 58 reviews.
200+ completed projects across New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner and the Northshore.
Backed by the Louisiana New Home Warranty Act — one year workmanship, two years systems, five years major structural.
Metairie is unincorporated, so permits and inspections go through Jefferson Parish Inspection and Code Enforcement, not through a city hall. Neighboring Kenner permits its own work separately.
Ask for the license number and look it up on the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors search. Confirm it is active and covers your type of work. DuCar holds RES 883334 and COMM 63084.
No, but it changes the plan. Most of Metairie is slab-on-grade, so moving plumbing means cutting and repouring concrete, and that is priced before demolition rather than discovered during it. Settlement and drainage get checked at the same time.
Yes. The flood zone and base flood elevation for your address decide what the foundation has to do, and lot drainage decides whether it keeps doing it. We pull both before pricing.
Our office is on Papworth Avenue, minutes from your job. Bring us your plans, your lot or your project goals and we will walk you through the construction path.