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 of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most projects call for 6 to 12 inches depending on how much grade you need to make up. Measure the low area's length and width, decide your target depth, and order in cubic yards from there. If you're backfilling around a foundation or pool wall, measure the actual void space rather than just the surface footprint.
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Urbana 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 of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most projects call for 6 to 12 inches depending on how much grade you need to make up. Measure the low area's length and width, decide your target depth, and order in cubic yards from there. If you're backfilling around a foundation or pool wall, measure the actual void space rather than just the surface footprint.
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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Complete Your Outdoor Project
Most fill dirt jobs finish with a few inches of topsoil capping the surface, since fill dirt is not a growing medium and nothing roots well in raw subsoil. If the project involves a pool or foundation, coarse sand or gravel underneath the fill helps with drainage before you back it in. Once the grade is set and capped, seed or sod goes on last.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Fill dirt has to go down in lifts, not one big dump. Spread it in layers of 6 to 8 inches and compact each one with a plate compactor or hand tamper before adding the next. Skip this step and the ground will keep settling for a year or more, especially in our clay loam, which holds water and shifts more than sandy soil does when it's not packed down properly.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
The most common mistake is treating fill dirt like topsoil and trying to plant straight into it. It has no organic matter and compacts too hard for roots to push through. Always cap the final grade with a few inches of actual topsoil once your fill is compacted and settled, then seed or sod on top of that layer.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
If you're filling a large low spot, order slightly more than your calculated volume rather than ordering twice. A second delivery for a small shortfall costs more in time and hassle than a modest overage on the first load, and leftover fill dirt is easy to use elsewhere on the property, like evening out a driveway edge or garden bed border.
Grading and Filling in Urbana
Urbana sits on silty clay loam that already drains slowly, so any low area near a foundation or pool tends to hold standing water after spring rain. Fill dirt raises that grade and gives you a stable base to build on, which matters here since our ground freezes and thaws through the winter and can shift things that were not compacted properly. A lot of Chambana lots near the older neighborhoods were graded decades ago and have settled unevenly, so fill dirt is often the first step before anyone touches topsoil or sod. This is structural material, it does the heavy lifting under whatever goes on top.
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.