Really appreciate the care and follow thru that this company had with our order. A hiccup came up but they were quick to respond and address all concerns, which made our garden day a success! Thank you for your prompt care.
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One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, so a small foundation backfill might only need 2 to 3 yards while raising a low corner of a yard 8 to 10 inches could run 6 yards or more. Measure the length and width of the low or excavated area, decide your target depth between 6 and 12 inches, and size the order from there. It is sold by the cubic yard, so round up rather than short the job, since a second delivery costs more in time than material.
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Really appreciate the care and follow thru that this company had with our order. A hiccup came up but they were quick to respond and address all concerns, which made our garden day a success! Thank you for your prompt care.
One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, so a small foundation backfill might only need 2 to 3 yards while raising a low corner of a yard 8 to 10 inches could run 6 yards or more. Measure the length and width of the low or excavated area, decide your target depth between 6 and 12 inches, and size the order from there. It is sold by the cubic yard, so round up rather than short the job, since a second delivery costs more in time than material.
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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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Really appreciate the care and follow thru that this company had with our order. A hiccup came up but they were quick to respond and address all co...
Really appreciate the care and follow thru that this company had with our order. A hiccup came up but they were quick to respond and address all concerns, which made our garden day a success! Thank you for your prompt care.
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Most fill dirt jobs finish with a few inches of topsoil capping the surface, since fill alone will not support grass or plants. If the final grade needs to shed water toward a drain or away from a foundation, some crews also order a bit of crushed base material for the top lift where extra load bearing matters, like under a patio or shed pad.
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Place fill dirt in lifts of 6 to 8 inches and compact each lift before adding the next, especially on Provo's silty loam where uncompacted fill will keep settling for a year or more as freeze thaw cycles work through it each winter down to spring. Skipping compaction is the number one reason people end up with a sunken patch six months later near a foundation or walkway they thought was finished.
Fill dirt is not a growing medium, so do not skip the topsoil cap if anything needs to root there, even drought tolerant groundcover. A common mistake in Provo yards is grading fill right up to finish height and seeding straight into it, which fails because the subsoil is too dense and low in organic matter for roots to establish before the first frost around September 27.
If you are backfilling around a foundation or pool wall, order slightly more than your calculated volume since compaction reduces the finished depth by 10 to 15 percent. Pairing a fill dirt order with a smaller topsoil order for the final few inches is usually more efficient than one large delivery of blended material, since you control the compaction of the structural base separately from the growing layer on top.
Provo sits at 4549 feet on silty loam that drains fine on the surface but can shift and settle once you dig into it, especially near older foundations and on the benches above the valley floor. Fill dirt gives you a dense, stable base for those regrades, pool backfills, and low spots that silty loam alone will not hold. Because the growing season here is short, from late April to late September, most fill projects happen in spring and fall shoulder windows when the ground is workable but not frozen. Cap it with topsoil before planting, since fill dirt on its own will not support turf or garden beds.
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 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.
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.
