Really appreciate the care and follow thru that this company had with our order. A hiccup came up but they were quick to respond and address all concerns, which made our garden day a success! Thank you for your prompt care.
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One cubic yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most structural fill jobs run 6 to 12 inches, so a small low spot might only need a yard or two while a foundation backfill or larger regrade can run into double digits. Measure the length and width of the area you are raising, decide how many inches you need to add, and that gives you the volume to order. Because it is sold by the cubic yard, it pays to measure twice, since ordering short means a second delivery.
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Really appreciate the care and follow thru that this company had with our order. A hiccup came up but they were quick to respond and address all concerns, which made our garden day a success! Thank you for your prompt care.
One cubic yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most structural fill jobs run 6 to 12 inches, so a small low spot might only need a yard or two while a foundation backfill or larger regrade can run into double digits. Measure the length and width of the area you are raising, decide how many inches you need to add, and that gives you the volume to order. Because it is sold by the cubic yard, it pays to measure twice, since ordering short means a second delivery.
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Adjust the quantity to match your project. One cubic yard covers about 100 to 160 square feet at a 2 to 3 inch depth.
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Really appreciate the care and follow thru that this company had with our order. A hiccup came up but they were quick to respond and address all co...
Really appreciate the care and follow thru that this company had with our order. A hiccup came up but they were quick to respond and address all concerns, which made our garden day a success! Thank you for your prompt care.
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Most fill jobs end with a cap of topsoil once grade is where it needs to be, especially if grass, beds, or anything else needs to grow on top. If the area sits near a foundation or slopes toward the house, some gravel underneath for drainage before the fill goes in can save headaches later. Either pairs naturally with a fill delivery on the same job.
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Akron's clay loam holds water, so before you dump fill dirt into a low spot, check where that water is actually coming from. If it is surface runoff pooling from a downspout or a slope, fill alone won't fix it, you will just relocate the puddle. Grade the area so water has somewhere to go, then bring the fill in to raise the low ground itself. Skipping this step is the most common reason a filled area stays soggy a year later.
Do not dump fill dirt in one deep pour and walk away. Build it in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each one with a plate compactor or by hand tamping before adding the next layer. With Akron's freeze and thaw cycle running roughly October through May, uncompacted fill will keep settling for a couple of seasons, showing up as dips near foundations or under patios exactly where you did not want them.
Fill dirt is not a growing medium, it is subsoil, so if you are capping it with sod, seed, or a garden bed, budget for 4 to 6 inches of actual topsoil on top rather than trying to plant straight into the fill. Ordering both in the same delivery window often makes more sense logistically than splitting the jobs weeks apart, since your grading work is already done.
Akron sits on clay loam that already drains slowly, so when a yard has a low corner or a wet patch near the foundation, adding more clay-heavy soil on top rarely helps. Fill dirt solves a different problem, it raises grade and gives you a stable base before anything else goes in. With frost reaching down through winter here and the ground freezing and thawing, compaction matters more than it would in milder climates, loose fill will settle unevenly over a season or two if it is not built up right. This is why most fill jobs around Stan Hywet Hall and the older Akron neighborhoods involve regrading before a patio, shed, or addition goes in on uneven ground.
Clean fill is screened subsoil free of debris, roots, and contaminants. It is made for volume and grade, and it compacts predictably, which is exactly what you want under slabs, in trenches, and behind walls.
Fill dirt builds the shape of the ground, topsoil grows things on top of it. Bring the grade up with fill, then cap it with 4 to 6 inches of topsoil anywhere grass or plants are going in.
Place fill in layers of 4 to 6 inches and compact each one before adding the next. Dumping the full depth at once leaves voids that settle later, and settling is the one problem fill is supposed to solve.
