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?
Fill dirt is sold by the cubic yard, and one yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth. Most structural fill goes down 6 to 12 inches, so a 200 square foot low spot at 8 inches runs somewhere around 5 cubic yards before compaction. Order in 6 to 8 inch lift increments rather than one big number, since that is how it actually gets installed.
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Charlotte Fill Dirt Delivery
Charlotte Fill Dirt Delivery
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The best local fill dirt, without the guesswork.
We hand-pick and partner with the best yards in your region, keep only the ones our buyers rate well, and back each load with our guarantee.
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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?
Fill dirt is sold by the cubic yard, and one yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth. Most structural fill goes down 6 to 12 inches, so a 200 square foot low spot at 8 inches runs somewhere around 5 cubic yards before compaction. Order in 6 to 8 inch lift increments rather than one big number, since that is how it actually gets installed.
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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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
Fill dirt is a structural base, not a growing medium, so most jobs finish with a cap of topsoil to bring back a surface that grass or plants can actually root into. If the project involves a slope or a spot near the foundation, a layer of gravel underneath helps with drainage before the fill and topsoil go on top. For anything getting seeded afterward, ordering topsoil alongside your fill dirt saves a second delivery trip.
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Areas we deliver fill dirt in Charlotte, North Carolina
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Do not dump fill dirt in one deep pour and walk away. In Charlotte's clay heavy ground, uncompacted fill settles unevenly for years, cracking patios and pulling grade back toward the house. Place it in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each one with a plate compactor or hand tamper before adding the next layer. It takes longer up front but it is the difference between a yard that holds its shape and one you are patching again next spring.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
A common mistake is treating fill dirt as something plants can grow in. It is subsoil, screened of debris but stripped of organic matter, so grass and shrubs planted directly into it struggle. Always cap finished fill with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil before seeding or planting, especially with Charlotte's last frost running into early April, when people are eager to get lawns going as soon as the ground warms.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
If you are backfilling around a foundation or pool wall, order a bit more fill than your flat math suggests, since compaction against a vertical surface eats volume faster than open yard grading. Pairing your fill delivery with gravel for drainage layers and topsoil for the cap in one order saves a second delivery charge and gets the whole job staged on site at once.
Grading and Filling in Charlotte
Charlotte sits on heavy clay that does not drain well, so a lot of fill dirt work here is really drainage work in disguise, raising a yard enough that water moves away from the foundation instead of pooling near it. With an elevation around 761 feet and rolling terrain in a lot of neighborhoods, grading jobs are common around new builds and additions near Bank of America Stadium and throughout the surrounding subdivisions. Because clay compacts and settles unevenly on its own, contractors here lean on clean fill dirt they can control in lifts rather than trying to reuse the native clay spoil. Pool backfill and post construction grading are two of the most frequent calls we get in this market.
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.