What still gets rebuilt in Arabi
Arabi took water in 2005 and took wind again in 2021, and the repair cycle here has never entirely closed. Half the Arabi jobs we serve are a raised house, a gutted rental or a roof going back onto a slab cottage. Those Arabi crews are small, three or four trades at a time, so one standard unit at the drive end covers the whole run.
We hold the same Arabi service day from start to finish so the contractor never has to call about it. Elevation work is the slow kind, and an Arabi house going up on piers can sit open for a season while the cribbing and the new steps get built underneath it.
Old Arabi storefronts and the renovation crews
The Old Arabi blocks along Saint Claude have turned over slowly into shops, studios and apartments above them. An Arabi storefront renovation has no yard at all, so the unit goes on the banquette side of the drive where an Arabi driver reaches it without blocking pedestrians. Permits are worth checking first. Arabi work that touches the public right of way needs the parish to know a unit is sitting there.
Water, pumps and the Arabi calendar
Arabi drains to the Lake Borgne Basin levee district pumps, and a hard afternoon storm will stand in the low corners of an Arabi lot for an hour before it moves. We keep Arabi units off those corners and out of the batture grass entirely, because an Arabi unit that drops a corner into soft ground has to be lifted rather than pumped.
Hurricane season changes the Arabi plan again. From June onward we tie down or pull Arabi units ahead of a named storm, and every Arabi customer gets a call before we move anything.