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 covers roughly 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most fill jobs here run 6 to 12 inches depending on how much grade you're correcting. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your target depth, and order enough to cover it in compacted lifts rather than one loose pour, since compaction will reduce your finished depth by more than people expect.
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Aurora 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.
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
One cubic yard covers roughly 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most fill jobs here run 6 to 12 inches depending on how much grade you're correcting. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your target depth, and order enough to cover it in compacted lifts rather than one loose pour, since compaction will reduce your finished depth by more than people expect.
What is a Yard?
What is a Yard?
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How It Works
Getting started is easy — just follow these simple steps
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Choose your quantity
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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Select a delivery date you'd like for the product to be dropped off at your home
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Sit back, wait, and let us work our magic to make sure the highest quality product is delivered to your driveway.
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Complete Your Outdoor Project
Once the fill is placed and compacted, most Aurora projects cap it with a few inches of topsoil so grass or beds actually have something to root into. If you're building up around a foundation or pool, a layer of gravel underneath the fill can help with drainage before you start stacking lifts. Neither is required, but both save you from redoing the work later.
Service area
Areas we deliver fill dirt in Aurora, Colorado
- Applewood, Colorado
- Castle Pines, Colorado
- Castle Rock, Colorado
- Cherry Creek, Colorado
- Cherry Hills Village, Colorado
- Dacono, Colorado
- Derby, Colorado
- Dove Valley, Colorado
- Edgewater, Colorado
- Fairmount, Colorado
- Fort Lupton, Colorado
- Lochbuie, Colorado
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Don't dump fill dirt in one deep pour and walk away. In Aurora's clay loam, an uncompacted deep fill will keep settling for a year or more, which shows up as sunken spots near foundations or walkways. Place it in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each one with a plate compactor or hand tamper before adding the next. It takes longer up front but it's the difference between a stable pad and a callback next spring.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
A common mistake is treating fill dirt like topsoil and expecting grass to grow in it. It's subsoil, screened of debris but not amended, and it won't hold nutrients or drain the way a growing medium does. Always cap finished fill with several inches of actual topsoil before seeding or planting, especially if the fill is going under a lawn area rather than a structure.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
If your project involves both raising a low spot and finishing it as lawn or garden, order fill dirt and topsoil together rather than in separate deliveries. It saves a second delivery fee and lets you sequence the job properly, compacting the fill first and capping it the same week before the site sits exposed to Aurora's spring runoff or afternoon storms.
Grading and Filling in Aurora
Aurora's clay loam already drains slowly, so when a yard has a low corner that holds water after a spring thaw, fill dirt is what actually fixes the grade instead of masking it. With elevation over 5,400 feet and a frost line that runs deep by early winter, foundations and pool decks here need solid backfill that won't settle unevenly once the ground freezes and thaws again. This is the material for building up before you bring in topsoil, not for growing anything on its own.
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.