Hello my lovely tight arses,
Thank you very much for your suggestions on doing the landscaping. I have decided to DO IT MYSELF as you all have suggested.
Could you all please suggest me on what type of soil/dirt shall i bring & put into my back to level the ground with my house.
After this, i wanted to put 50 mm of top soil and lay the turf myself.
Hope, I get to hear from you all again.
Thank you
Free Mushrooms? :)
Free poison? :D
Horse manure
Can you deliver?
Yeah I’ll dump my shit at your place
PLease post address
So you are a horse?
contact local earthmoving businesses, they have to dump it somewhere.
Can i get any type of soil or dirt?
no.
you can gum tree clean fill and sometimes they will deliver it to you free of charge as they need a place to get rid of it once they have excavated it from a building site
But my question is " Is any type of dirt is okay to put?"
Like archi said. Excavators will dump 20t for free if you can take it all.
for turfing , yes
as long as no asbestos from building site
That is the concern I would have for getting "free" fill. It could have asbestos or toxic waste included.
If it was contaminated with asbestos it wouldn't be CLEAN fill.
dirty dirt
Night soil.
Sandy loam.
Sandy loam, then a turf mix, then a snafly loan in between turf gaps once laid.
a snafly loan
???
Haha, god damn, sandy loam.
Please post photos when you're done because this is a disaster waiting to happen
Why is it a disaster?
Why is it going to be Disaster? Are you a mad man?
I don't understand your line of questioning.
One man clan wrote that it would be a disaster waiting to happen. Why would diy dirt fills be a disaster?
Because he has no idea what he's doing, thinks it's going to be a lot cheaper than it is, and probably will kill anything that grows.
His previous post said it's 290sqm. For starters: How do you plan on spreading the soil around your backyard? By hand with a rake? How are you going to level it so that it's not bumpy and creates bogs in your backyard? 290m2 of topsoil at 50mm is 15m3 of soil!
Sandy loam should only be used for topsoil, not subsoil. For subsoil, you need something more "solid". The ideal is something heavy like clay mixed with a little coarse grit type material.
I am assuming you are going to get a bobcat/excavator to spread it, I would speak to them about getting some fill, normally they are going to know somewhere trying to get rid of some fill and will make sure it is OK as they don't want to have try and level rubbish and large rocks.
How big is the area and do you know roughly how much fill you will need?
If you want to spread it yourself and grow lawn on it, get it from a gardening/landscaping centre (some councils such as mine have green bins and they compost this and sell the compost).
For example, https://anlscape.com.au/Products/garden-soil-mixes/top-soil
Be careful with getting free soil from excavating businesses; it could be full of clay for example (and possibly contaminated with other building materials) - it's going to be a PIA to break this up with gypsum and spread it and will be very lumpy initially and be a nightmare with drainage.
Most sand and soil suppliers also have cheap fill.
For plant/lawn growth, sandy loam mixed with 10% compost. For levelling, use gravel (course sand) based sandy loam. Avoid stones and pebbles unless as a base for driving-on or boggy areas. Allow 6-12 months for natural settling and compacting, then touch-up any uneven settling whilst allowing the lawns to show through the top soil, giving their leaves access to sunlight.
Remember you actually want the ground to be lower than your house and to slope away from it otherwise you can have problems if it rains.
I remember when it rained very heavily and we discovered that a neighbours pavers leading to her backyard where about 15mm higher than the windows at the front of her house luckily we were all home and could sweep the water over the rise so it could then drain into her backyard later I dug a trench next to the raised section of pavers so it shouldn't happen again
We leveled our patch with the cheapest dirt we could find, I think it was called mushroom dirt. Only problem is a lot of mushroom are popping up now :P