Online ordering was really simple and I liked the transparent pricing.
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.
Online ordering was really simple and I liked the transparent pricing.
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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 spread at 6 inches covers about 54 square feet, less if you go deeper. Most raise and backfill jobs in Columbia run 6 to 12 inches deep depending on how low the spot is, so measure the low area, decide your target depth, and work backward from there. If you are backfilling against a foundation or pool wall, measure the trench volume directly instead of guessing by square footage.
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Columbia Fill Dirt Delivery
Columbia 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.
Online ordering was really simple and I liked the transparent pricing.
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 spread at 6 inches covers about 54 square feet, less if you go deeper. Most raise and backfill jobs in Columbia run 6 to 12 inches deep depending on how low the spot is, so measure the low area, decide your target depth, and work backward from there. If you are backfilling against a foundation or pool wall, measure the trench volume directly instead of guessing by square footage.
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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
Most fill dirt jobs finish with a few inches of topsoil on top so grass or beds actually have something to root into, since fill dirt itself is not a growing medium. If you are building up a low spot near a patio or driveway, a layer of gravel underneath the fill can help with drainage before you cap it off. We deliver topsoil and gravel too, so it is easy to stack materials in one trip.
Service area
Areas we deliver fill dirt in Columbia, South Carolina
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
In Columbia's clay soil, fill dirt that looks dry on top can still be saturated a few inches down after our spring rains, and compacting wet fill just traps water and creates soft spots that sink later. Let a fresh load sit a day or two after a rain event before you start compacting, especially heading into the wetter stretch before last frost in late March. Dry enough to crumble in your hand is the test, not dry on the surface.
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The most common mistake we see on backfill jobs is dumping the whole load in at once and calling it done. Fill dirt needs to go in 6 to 8 inch lifts, each one compacted before the next goes on, or you will be watching that ground settle for a couple years, especially around pool decks and foundation backfill where uneven settling actually causes cracking.
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If your project needs both raising the grade and something to grow in eventually, order fill dirt and topsoil together rather than in two separate deliveries. It saves a second delivery fee and lets you compact the fill fully before capping with topsoil, which is the order that actually holds up instead of mixing the two together by accident.
Grading and Filling in Columbia
Columbia sits on heavy clay that already drains slow, so a lot of yards here have low corners that puddle every time we get a gully washer off the coast. Fill dirt is how you raise that ground back to grade instead of fighting it every season. It also shows up a lot around foundation and pool backfill work near the State House area and older neighborhoods where houses were built on uneven lots. This is structural material, not something to plant into straight away, it needs topsoil capped on top once it is compacted.
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.