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 jobs call for 6 to 12 inches depending on how much you are raising the grade. For a typical low spot or pool backfill, measure the square footage and multiply by your target depth in feet to get cubic yards, then order in full yard increments since it is sold that way. Foundation and structural fills often run deeper, so measure the actual gap rather than guessing.
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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 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 are raising the grade. For a typical low spot or pool backfill, measure the square footage and multiply by your target depth in feet to get cubic yards, then order in full yard increments since it is sold that way. Foundation and structural fills often run deeper, so measure the actual gap rather than guessing.
What is a Yard?
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 few inches of topsoil capping the compacted fill, especially if grass or landscaping goes on top. If you are backfilling around a pool or foundation, a layer of crushed base rock underneath the fill can help with drainage in Durant's clay soil. Mulch or ground cover comes later, once the grade is set and settled.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Durant's clay loam does not forgive shortcuts. Dump fill dirt in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each one before adding the next, whether you are hand tamping a small pool backfill or running a plate compactor on a bigger foundation job. Skipping this and piling it all at once looks fine for a season, then you get sinking spots two years later when the deeper fill finally settles under its own weight and whatever traffic crosses it.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Fill dirt is not a growing medium, and trying to plant straight into it around here usually fails because compacted subsoil sheds water fast and has none of the organic matter clay loam gardens need. Always cap finished fill with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil before seeding or sodding. Skip this step and you will be reseeding bare patches every spring while the rest of the yard fills in fine.
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If you are backfilling a large low area, order slightly more than your calculated volume, since compaction reduces the finished depth by 10 to 15 percent as loose fill settles into place. It is cheaper to order the right amount once by the yard than to schedule a second small delivery later for a gap you did not account for the first time.
Grading and Filling in Durant
Durant sits on clay loam that drains slowly, so low areas near driveways, sheds, and pool decks tend to hold water after the spring rains that run through late March. Fill dirt is the fix for that, not topsoil, because it compacts and stays put instead of washing or settling unevenly over a wet clay base. A lot of the backfill work around here is pool installs and foundation grading, both jobs where you need a structural material under the finish layer, not something meant to grow in. Once the fill is compacted to grade, a cap of topsoil handles anything that needs to root.
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.