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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 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 grade you're correcting. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your target depth, and order in cubic yards from there. For anything over a few yards, get it delivered rather than hauling it in truck beds, fill dirt is heavy at 1.3 tons per cubic yard and adds up fast.
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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 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 grade you're correcting. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your target depth, and order in cubic yards from there. For anything over a few yards, get it delivered rather than hauling it in truck beds, fill dirt is heavy at 1.3 tons per cubic yard and adds up fast.
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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 jobs finish with a layer of topsoil on top, especially if grass or landscaping is going in over the filled area. If you're backfilling around a pool or foundation, a compactable base material underneath your fill can help too. We deliver fill dirt and topsoil separately so you can order what your project actually needs in the right depths.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Fill dirt needs to go down in lifts, not one deep pour. Spread 6 to 8 inches, compact it with a plate compactor or hand tamper, then add the next lift. Skipping compaction is the single biggest reason people end up with sunken spots a year later, especially in Mesa's sandy soil, which settles more than clay once water moves through it. If you're filling more than a foot, plan on renting a compactor for the day.
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A common mistake is treating fill dirt like topsoil and planting straight into it. It's subsoil, screened of debris but not amended, and it won't support healthy root growth or drainage the way a real planting mix does. Cap any filled area that will have grass, shrubs, or a garden with 4 to 6 inches of actual topsoil once your fill is compacted and graded.
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If you're backfilling a large area, pair fill dirt with a base layer of decomposed granite or crushed rock where structural support matters most, like around a pool deck or under a paver patio. Use fill dirt for the bulk of the volume and save topsoil for the top few inches only where something needs to grow. This keeps costs reasonable since you're not capping the whole depth with pricier material.
Grading and Filling in Mesa
Mesa sits at 1,326 feet with sandy alkaline soil that drains fast but doesn't hold its shape well once you start digging into it. That's exactly why fill dirt matters here, whether you're leveling a yard that slopes toward a block wall or backfilling around a pool shell before decking goes in. Because native soil is loose and sandy to begin with, compaction matters even more than usual, uncompacted lifts will settle and leave dips within a season. This is a structural fix, not a planting bed, so plan on capping with topsoil wherever grass or plants are going in.
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.