Weddings and film work along Destrehan River Road
Destrehan draws weddings and film crews to the plantation grounds and the oak alleys along River Road, and those bookings arrive with a guest count and a hard start time. A Destrehan event order is usually a climate-controlled trailer plus a pair of deluxe units set back behind the tree line where photographs will not catch them. We walk the Destrehan site with the coordinator first, because power and water decide the trailer position and a Destrehan pad that slopes is not worth arguing with.
Film work in Destrehan keeps longer and stranger hours than a wedding does. We service those units at daybreak so a Destrehan crew shooting into the evening is never waiting on a truck.
Ormond, the subdivisions and Destrehan home jobs
Behind River Road the Destrehan subdivisions off Ormond Boulevard are slab houses from the seventies and eighties, most of them now on a second roof. A Destrehan renovation of that kind takes one standard unit at the drive end, on plank, for six or eight weeks. Driveways are the limiting factor. A Destrehan apron already cracked from settlement does not need a loaded truck parked on it, so we back in only as far as the Destrehan concrete looks sound.
Spillway weather and the Destrehan service pace
Destrehan sits just downriver of the Bonnet Carre spillway, and when the Corps opens the bays the traffic and the river talk change for a month. Rain is the routine problem, and a Destrehan yard on this flat ground holds water most of a day. We keep Destrehan units on shell or slab and off the low side of any lot.
Summer settles the schedule. Heat and humidity through a Destrehan August mean twice weekly service on anything with a crew working on it.