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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 about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, which is the shallow end of typical install depth. If you are filling deeper, say 12 inches, plan on roughly half that coverage per yard, so measure your low spot or trench in square feet first and work backward from there. Most backfill and grading jobs in Fremont run somewhere between a few yards for a small low spot and a dozen or more for foundation or pool backfill.
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Fremont 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.
Highest compliments. Great driver.
Website is easy to navigate. Just a seamless process. 5 stars!!
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
One cubic yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, which is the shallow end of typical install depth. If you are filling deeper, say 12 inches, plan on roughly half that coverage per yard, so measure your low spot or trench in square feet first and work backward from there. Most backfill and grading jobs in Fremont run somewhere between a few yards for a small low spot and a dozen or more for foundation or pool backfill.
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
Most fill jobs need a cap of topsoil once the grading and compaction is done, especially if grass or beds are going back in over it. Some Fremont customers also add a bit of gravel underneath for drainage in low spots that hold water before filling. If you're finishing with sod or seed, plan the topsoil order alongside the fill so you're not scheduling two separate deliveries for one project.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Fill dirt is structural, not topsoil, so never place it more than 6 to 8 inches deep in one lift. Compact each lift with a plate compactor or hand tamper before adding the next. On Fremont's clay loam, skipping compaction means the ground keeps settling for a year or two after, which shows up as sunken spots near foundations or walkways right when you thought the job was done.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
The most common mistake we see is people capping fill dirt with grass seed directly and wondering why nothing grows evenly. Fill dirt has no organic content, it's subsoil, so anything you want to grow needs a few inches of real topsoil on top. Budget for that topsoil cap in your original plan instead of adding it later once the grass patches fail.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Order fill and topsoil together when you can, since they're often needed on the same job and pairing deliveries saves a second trip charge. If your project includes both raising a low area and finishing it with lawn or beds, size both orders at once using your square footage, it's easier to get the ratio right before either load arrives than to guess mid project.
Grading and Filling in Fremont
Fremont sits on clay loam that already drains slow, so a lot of the fill work here is about correcting grade around foundations and low yard areas near the Sandusky River corridor rather than adding nutrients. This material is not meant to grow anything, it is structural, meant to get the elevation right before topsoil caps it off. With a 630 foot elevation and flat surrounding terrain, small grading mistakes tend to hold water longer than people expect, so getting the base right matters. It is the same dirt contractors use around here for pool backfill and foundation work before they bring in anything for planting.
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.