Easy to order, great service, and great product. We enjoy the final look of a very neglected beds we inherited!
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.
Easy to order, great service, and great product. We enjoy the final look of a very neglected beds we inherited!
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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 jobs call for 6 to 12 inches depending on how much you need to raise the grade. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your target depth, and that gives you the yardage to order. Bigger backfill jobs around a foundation or pool wall usually need more than people expect once you account for compaction.
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Charleston Fill Dirt Delivery
Charleston 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.
Easy to order, great service, and great product. We enjoy the final look of a very neglected beds we inherited!
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 jobs call for 6 to 12 inches depending on how much you need to raise the grade. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your target depth, and that gives you the yardage to order. Bigger backfill jobs around a foundation or pool wall usually need more than people expect once you account for compaction.
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What is a Yard?
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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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Complete Your Outdoor Project
Most fill jobs finish with a cap of topsoil once the grade is set, especially if grass or beds are going in on top. If drainage is the real issue, a layer of gravel underneath before you fill can help move water away from the foundation instead of just burying the problem.
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Areas we deliver fill dirt in Charleston, West Virginia
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Charleston clay does not forgive shortcuts. Place fill dirt in lifts of 6 to 8 inches and compact each one before adding the next, especially near a foundation or pool wall. Skip this and you will be back next spring filling in the same low spot as it settles unevenly, sometimes pulling concrete or pavers down with it. A hand tamper works for small areas, a plate compactor is worth renting for anything larger.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
The most common mistake we see is people trying to grow grass directly in fill dirt. It is subsoil, stripped of the organic matter that plants need, so cap it with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil before seeding or sodding. Skipping this step means thin, patchy grass no matter how much fertilizer gets thrown at it later.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
If you are filling a large low area, pair fill dirt with a run of gravel at the base for drainage, then fill, then topsoil on top. This layered approach costs a little more upfront but saves you from redoing the grading work in a year or two once Charleston's clay soil shows you where water actually wants to go.
Grading and Filling in Charleston
Charleston sits at 601 feet in a river valley with clay soil that holds water and drains slow, which means low areas near foundations and yards near the Kanawha stay soggy longer than you'd like. Fill dirt is what corrects that, raising grade so water moves away from the house instead of sitting against it. A lot of the older lots around here have settled unevenly over the decades, and builders use fill to level things out before anything else happens. This is not a material for growing things, it is the structural base you put topsoil on top of once the grade is right.
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.