Serving Richmond, TX
Fill dirt in Richmond, Texas comes off our own pits about 16 miles south of town. We own two sand and dirt mines in southeast Fort Bend County. Select fill, fill dirt, sand and sandy loam load there and go out on our tandem dump trucks. That puts the price and the schedule in one set of hands. A Richmond builder calls one outfit for the material and the trucking. Because we control the pit, we can run loads at night or on a weekend. When a pad has to be finished, that matters. Richmond is a busy market and the fill has to keep up.
Select fill is the material a building pad sits on. It is a clay and sand blend that compacts tight and holds an elevation. Fill dirt is the bulk material for raising low ground and backfilling. Sand and sandy loam handle bedding and topping. We sell all of it by the load. Richmond jobs usually run in the hundreds of loads. Our minimum project runs about $10,000, so this is truckload volume. We quote the material and the haul as one number. Distance from the pit drives most of what you pay.
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Most dirt outfits around Richmond buy their material and mark it up. We mine ours. Two sand and dirt pits in southeast Fort Bend County feed every load we deliver. Owning the pit means we know what is in the material before it leaves. It also means supply stays steady in the middle of your job. When a big subdivision buys out a local pit, small builders get pushed back in line. Our loads come off our own ground, so we set the order of the day. Richmond sits close enough that the haul stays short. Short hauls mean more loads per truck per day.
Haul distance is the biggest line item in a fill dirt price. Material is cheap and moving it is not. A pit 40 miles out puts a truck on the road twice as long. You pay for that time. Our pits sit about 16 miles from Richmond, which is a short round trip. On a job that takes 400 loads, saved minutes turn into days. Around Houston, fill dirt commonly runs $10 to $25 a yard delivered. The delivered part is where the spread comes from. Pit location matters more than the price per yard on a big Richmond job.
Fort Bend County is among the fastest growing counties in the nation. Richmond sits in the middle of it. Long Meadow Farms, Harvest Green, Veranda and Aliana all keep adding sections. Austin Point is going in south of town off FM 762, with more than 14,000 homes planned. Lots in this country get raised with imported fill before a slab goes down. Commercial pads along US 59 need the same material. That is heavy, steady demand for select fill around Richmond. We built the fleet to serve it. Volume is the whole point of owning pits and trucks.
Homeowners with acreage buy fill from us too. A low back pasture that ponds after rain takes fill and slope to fix. A new barn or shop needs a pad built up above grade. Driveways on the Crabb and FM 762 side settle and need material under the base. Those jobs run in loads rather than yards, because acreage takes volume. A tandem load covers less ground than most people expect. If a Richmond property needs raising, the first question is how many loads. We measure it, price the material and the haul together, then schedule trucks.
Start with the volume. Length times width times depth in feet, divided by 27, gives you cubic yards. A pad 100 feet by 60 feet raised one foot is about 222 yards. Then add for compaction, because select fill loses volume when it gets rolled. We convert that into truckloads and give you the load count with the quote. Grade stakes or a plan sheet make the estimate tighter. Most Richmond jobs we price run well past a few hundred yards. Once the number is set, we stage trucks so the spread crew keeps working.
Timing matters as much as volume in Richmond. Rain shuts a fill job down, and clay will not compact wet. We watch the forecast and load heavy when the ground is right. Weather is the one thing nobody controls out here. Being open 24 hours means we can start early or run into the night. We did dirt work on a data center project near Blessing on that kind of schedule. Richmond builders working toward a slab pour get the same treatment. Tell us the date the pad has to be ready and we work backward from it.
Free, no-obligation estimates throughout Fort Bend County.
(281) 750-6510From the first look at the ground to the last pass of the grade, here is exactly how it goes.
We meet you at the property and read the job off the ground itself: what is growing, where water sits, how trucks and excavators get in. Big dirt work prices off what is really out there.
You get a free quote with a real number and a real plan: what gets dug or cleared, how many loads move, where the dirt comes from or goes. It holds unless the scope changes.
The equipment shows up when we said. Excavators dig, trucks run in rotation, and on deadline jobs we run shifts around the clock until the volume is moved.
The last pass matters as much as the first load. Pads compacted and holding elevation, ponds shaped and ready for water, ground graded so it drains. We look at the finished work with you before we leave.
What Richmond property owners ask us most about select fill & dirt sales. Don't see yours? Give us a call — we're happy to help.
A pond you have been putting off, a pad that needs building, land that needs clearing, or a job that needs truckloads of select fill? Call or send the form. Tell us where the property is and what you want the land to do, and we will set a time to come look at it.
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