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 covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, so a 10 by 10 area needing 6 inches takes roughly two yards, and doubling the depth to 12 inches roughly doubles the yardage. Measure the low area's length and width, decide how many inches you need to raise it, and size the order from there. It's sold by the cubic yard, so round up rather than short a lift you'll need to finish later.
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Roswell Fill Dirt Delivery
Roswell 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.
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, so a 10 by 10 area needing 6 inches takes roughly two yards, and doubling the depth to 12 inches roughly doubles the yardage. Measure the low area's length and width, decide how many inches you need to raise it, and size the order from there. It's sold by the cubic yard, so round up rather than short a lift you'll need to finish later.
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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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 few inches of topsoil capping the fill once it's compacted, since fill dirt alone won't support grass or plants. If the project involves a retaining wall or a slope near the clay-heavy areas around Roswell, some crushed stone at the base helps with drainage before the fill goes in.
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Areas we deliver fill dirt in Roswell, Georgia
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Roswell's red clay compacts hard once it's dry but turns greasy and unstable when wet, so don't dump fill on top of saturated clay and expect it to bond. Scrape any standing water or mud off the area first, and if you're filling right after a rain, give the base a day or two to firm up. Compacting fill against a soft, wet clay subgrade is the most common reason people see settling months later.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
The biggest mistake we see is people filling 12 inches in one pass instead of two 6 inch lifts. Loose fill dumped deep looks fine at first but settles unevenly as it compacts under its own weight over the following year, leaving dips right where you didn't want them. Compact each lift with a plate compactor or hand tamper before adding the next one, especially under anything that'll carry weight like a patio or shed.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
If you're building up a large low area, order fill dirt for the bulk of the depth and cap only the top 2 to 4 inches with topsoil where grass or plants need to grow. This costs less than filling the whole area with topsoil, since fill dirt is a subsoil product and doesn't need the organic content topsoil carries. Save the topsoil budget for the layer that actually needs to support root growth.
Grading and Filling in Roswell
Roswell sits on red clay that already drains slowly, so any project that adds elevation, a pool deck, a shed pad, a low corner of the yard, needs fill that compacts predictably instead of settling unevenly against that clay base. At 1060 feet with rolling terrain around Bulloch Hall and the older neighborhoods, a lot of lots have natural low points where water collects after storms. Fill dirt gets used to correct that grade before topsoil or sod goes back on top. It is not a growing medium, so treat it as the structural layer underneath whatever the finished surface will be.
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.