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, so a small low spot might take a yard or two while a larger backfill or foundation area can run into double digits. Since install depths typically range from 6 to 12 inches, doubling your depth roughly doubles your yardage for the same footprint. Measure the actual low area first, length times width, then match it to the depth you're building up to.
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Lumberton 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, so a small low spot might take a yard or two while a larger backfill or foundation area can run into double digits. Since install depths typically range from 6 to 12 inches, doubling your depth roughly doubles your yardage for the same footprint. Measure the actual low area first, length times width, then match it to the depth you're building up to.
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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 topsoil cap, since fill dirt itself isn't meant to grow anything. If the area will see grass or planting beds, order topsoil for the top few inches after the fill is compacted. Some jobs also pair fill with gravel for a stable base under patios or sheds.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Don't dump fill dirt in one deep pour and walk away. Place it in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each layer before adding the next, otherwise you get soft pockets that settle unevenly for years, especially in Lumberton's sandy loam where moisture moves through fast and can undermine an uncompacted fill from below. A rented plate compactor for a day costs far less than regrading later.
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The most common mistake with fill dirt is treating it like topsoil and planting straight into it. It's subsoil, screened of debris but stripped of the organic content plants need. Cap any area that will see grass, shrubs, or beds with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil once the fill is compacted and graded to the level you want.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
If you're filling a large low area near the Lumber River floodplain, order fill and topsoil in the same delivery window so you're not paying for two separate trips. Combining loads also lets you sequence the work, compact the fill one day, cap it the next, without the yard sitting half finished in between.
Grading and Filling in Lumberton
Lumberton's sandy loam drains fast on its own, but low-lying lots near the Lumber River and older neighborhoods with uneven grading often need real elevation work, not just topsoil dressing. Fill dirt gives you the structural base to raise those spots before anything else goes in. With a growing season that runs from early April to late October, most people want yards usable well before summer rain events, so grading and compaction timing matters. This is subsoil for building up ground, not a planting medium, which fits the way most fill jobs here are really about drainage and elevation, not landscaping.
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.