I have ordered twice now, a pleasure to deal with, easy and fast delivery, beautiful mulch!
About this fill dirt
Screened fill dirt free of debris, for raising low ground and backfilling. Structural material, place it in lifts and compact as you go.
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How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most structural fill jobs run 6 to 12 inches, so a 10 by 10 foot low spot at 6 inches needs roughly 2 cubic yards. Foundation backfill and pool surrounds usually take more once you account for the void space around the structure. Measure the area and target depth first, then order by the yard rather than guessing.
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Athens Fill Dirt Delivery
Athens Fill Dirt Delivery
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About this fill dirt
Screened fill dirt free of debris, for raising low ground and backfilling. Structural material, place it in lifts and compact as you go.
I have ordered twice now, a pleasure to deal with, easy and fast delivery, beautiful mulch!
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most structural fill jobs run 6 to 12 inches, so a 10 by 10 foot low spot at 6 inches needs roughly 2 cubic yards. Foundation backfill and pool surrounds usually take more once you account for the void space around the structure. Measure the area and target depth first, then order by the yard rather than guessing.
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Getting started is easy — just follow these simple steps
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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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I needed 3 yards of top soil and that's what I got! Right on time and right where I asked it to be placed (Order# 2041).
Complete Your Outdoor Project
Most fill jobs finish with a topsoil cap once the grade is set, especially if grass or beds are going in over it. Some Athens customers also mix in a bit of gravel at the base of a wet spot before filling, since our silt loam holds water and a drainage layer underneath keeps the fill from staying saturated. Ask about topsoil delivered alongside your fill order to save a second trip.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Fill dirt has to go down in lifts, not one dump. Spread it in 6 to 8 inch layers and compact each one before adding the next, with a hand tamper or plate compactor depending on the area size. Skip this on Athens silt loam and you'll watch that spot sink for two or three seasons as it settles unevenly under its own weight and rain.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
The most common mistake is treating fill dirt like topsoil and planting straight into it. It has no structure or nutrients built for root growth, it is just mass to correct grade. Always cap finished fill with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil before seeding grass or putting in beds, especially since anything growing needs that layer to establish in our silt loam base.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
If you're filling a large low area, order fill dirt for the bulk of the depth and finish the top few inches with topsoil rather than filling the whole thing with topsoil. It costs less to move structural fill than to move a growing medium you don't need for the bottom two thirds of the hole, and the compaction result is the same either way.
Grading and Filling in Athens
Athens sits on silt loam over rolling terrain, and a lot of the flatter building sites in town are old fill or reclaimed low ground to begin with, so settling is already a known issue here. Fill dirt is the material that corrects grade before anything else happens, raising a soggy low corner of a yard or squaring up the ground around a foundation on a sloped lot near The Ridges. It is not meant to grow anything on its own, silt loam or otherwise, it is structural. Cap it with real topsoil once the grade is set and you get a stable base that matches how the rest of the yard behaves.
What Clean Fill Is
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 vs Topsoil
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.
Compact in Lifts
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.