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What is the difference between fill dirt and topsoil?


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Updated: 12/29/2015
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Answer: Fill dirt is only regular non treated dirt Where top soil is a fertilizer dirt
Done Right Handyman services llc
Answer: The purity of the soil.
LRM Lawn Service
Answer: Your top soil is a much pure soil that goes at the top
All lawn service Midwest
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Answer: Top soil has way more nutrients for your lawn.
Mike's Mowing
Answer: Topsoil will have some nutrients in soil
Greenroots greenscaping
Answer: Fill dirt does just that, fills top soil is just as it sounds
BLAKELY’S lawn care
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Answer: Fill dirt is natural material top soil is dirty
Brent’s lawn maintenance
Answer: Fill dirt is to take up space when needed. Topsoil is usually to rejuvenate the old soil to grow again for the new season
Perry's Landscaping
Answer: with fill dirt its like a combination of natural materials like rocks and with topsoil is like nutrients like gardens
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Answer: Top soil is screened with no rocks or other material. It is clean dirt
Sprinkle Me Sprinklers and Landscape
Answer: One has sand and one has river rock
Above the rest landscaping and delivery
Answer: Fill dirt in some instances have rock or pebbles mixed in with the dirt topsoil is like potting soil for planting with a mixture of mulch soil and nutrient rich material to promote plant growth
Cuttin-up Lawn Care And Grounds Maintenance
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Answer: Fill dirt will usually have some rocks and debris in it. Topsoil is sifted and clean dirt.
B&M Lawn Services LLC
Answer: Fill dirt is a sandy to a clay base dirt. Topsoil is more organic and has humus in it witch is broken down plants.
B- Sharp Property Maintenance
Answer: Fill dirt is just for filling in areas that needed to be brought up to a different grade and that will have good compaction top soil has your higher nutrients for planting ( grass ,plant,ect. )
Carolina Ground Solutions Inc
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Answer: Fill dirt has no added nutrients. Topsoil is amended and preferable when sod is being installed.
Seal the Deal LLC DBA All Seasons Landscaping
Answer: Topsoil is a finely screened organic soil. Topsoil contains 30% compost, giving it a dark, rich look. Topsoil is a preferred growing medium for most plants, and of course, grass. ... Subsoil, or fill, as it is commonly referred to, is cheaper than topsoil.
Lawn Ranger
Answer: Fill is usually sand heavy where top is more organic based.
Warco Landscapes
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Answer: Topsoil is loaded with organic material making its nutrient and water holding capacity far greater then fill, which is generally gravel and rock.
Berkshire Gardens Turf Services Inc
Answer: Fill dirt may have stones boulders ect ascot were top soil is screened and mixed with compost to add nutrients
Aries Landscape & Construction
Answer: Fill dirt is very rough and can serve as a base for topsoil. It should never be used for grass seeding and does not include any organic matter.
Kevin Catalano Gardening & Design
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Answer: Fill dirt has not been cleaned as tp soil goes through an process to clean dirt of rocks
Cuyahoga Property Maintenance
Answer: Top soil is specifically for plants and grass because it is soil with added fertilizers
Innovation Landscaping LLC
Answer: Fill dirt is what’s beneath for stability. It’s comprised of sands, clays and broken down rock. Fill dirt has no organic materials. Topsoil is what you grow plants in and has a high percentage of organic material. Topsoil is this much less stable than fill dirt.
RL Residential Services
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Answer: Fill dirt has rocks and junk in it. Topsoil is good for growing plants.
Landmark lawncare
Answer: Fill dirt can contain earthy materials and pieces of debris that topsoil will not.You use fill dirt for mounds or to fill up a big hole.
Affordacut LLC
Answer: Fill dirt is usually soil that isnt clean or filtered usually clay or soil that can only be used for filler. Topsoil is used for sod installation and tree and plant installation
AHS Pro Landscape
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Answer: Fill dirt is used as a base. Topsoil is coated on top of the fill for vegetation to grow.
Graham Excavating & Land Clearing LLC
Answer: Topsoil is preferred over fill dirt when planting or laying grass, it's organically higher in grade due to its mixture of compost.
Xtream Stumpgrinding Inc.
Answer: Top soil has compost in it along with other nutrients and is darker in color and is made for growing things and fill dirt is just dirt, not a lot of nutrients or anything in it.
J & J Removal Services, LLC
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Answer: Fill dirt can be sand or clay topsoil usually is clean and enriched with some type of compost
Larry Pierce Lawn/Landscaping
Answer: Topsoil is cleaner/screened better.
DB Tractor Works
Answer: Fill dirt has rocks and other debris in it topsoil is screened
Roop's Lawn Services, LLC
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Answer: Top soil will not have rocks in it.
Mahar Landscape Services
Answer: The material called fill dirt, or only fill, typically contains topsoil, but it also contains rocky subsoil and lots of other material in a mixture without a standard composition. The topsoil in the first 4 to 12 inches of Earth’s covering supports the roots of a variety of plant roots -- the nutrient gatherers. Successful topsoil contains nitrogen, carbon and other nutrients.
Selena's Landscape, Design & Tree Service, LLC
Answer: Fill dirt has no nutrients
Lawn Care by Curt
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Answer: Fill dirt is usally clay and topsoil is a rich more sandy soil
Heartland Lawn & Landscapes
Answer: top soil is dirt used to plant fill dirt fill in area that is to low or holes
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Answer: Topsoil is basically different kinds of organic matter that is the cane overtime. It is usually a lot darker in color, and has been screened to remove any gravel rocks sticks.
Land Tech Landscapes
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Answer: fill dirt has other stuff in it beside dirty. Like concrete, pipes, etc..
Neide's Lawn & Landscape LLC
Answer: Topsoil is just want to says...it is the top layer of soil before it has been disturbed by man. It typically is darker in color however it is not necessarily black. Fill dirt is just dirt dug from a borrow area. It is typically reddish, has rocks in it, and is used to fill in holes, behind walls, or just low area.
Walkers Green, Inc
Answer: Topsoil contains more nutrients that grass needs and fill dirt is generally a sand and rock soil that does not have favorable ph and nutrients for grass growth
Green Seed Landscaping
ProMatcher
Answer: fill dirt may contain clay or gravel
Micro Dumpster
Answer: quality
MURPHY BROS.
Answer: I always some use topsoil which has fertilizer and manure mixed in as fill dirt. It doesn't cost any more than topsoil. Although I know some companies that will take "fill dirt" from an empty lot and deliver and install it in the customers yard. Fill dirt has disease, weeds and other harmful products mixed in.
Salinas Lawn Services
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Answer: fill dirt rocky dirty. top soul clean reach black
Artios Painting 309 788 9432
Answer: Fill dirt is any dirt, topsoil has nutrients.
BlueMark Water
Answer: Top soil has been through a screening process and is a better soil
Pinnacle Landscape and Maintenance
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Answer: The amount of debris. Topsoil is a cleaner product
Executive Designs llc
Answer: Fill dirt is not sifted and is used for area to fill in holes . where as top soil is sifted and may have small pieces of debris and it is used for the top layer for a lawn or new garden etc/
CreekSide LawnCare LLC
Answer: topsoil is sifted and has better nutrients than fill dirt.
Sod Sales Direct
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