Guías para suelo comercial y trabajo de obra
Straight answers on fill dirt, select fill, topsoil, and the Texas ground you build on. These guides explain the materials and the specs so you order the right thing, estimate the right volume, and avoid the expensive mistakes, then connect you to the pages where you can price and schedule delivery.
Soil & Material Guides
Pick a topic. Every guide is written for contractors, civil and site-work crews, and developers, and is cited to the standards that govern the work.
What Is Select Fill?
What select fill is, how it differs from fill dirt and common fill, the TxDOT and ASTM standards it is sourced to, and where to use it.
Read the guide →Fill Dirt vs Topsoil
The real difference, why topsoil is never structural fill, and how to order the right material for each part of the job.
Read the guide →How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
The cubic yard formula, a worked example, the compaction allowance most estimates miss, and how to size your truck loads.
Read the guide →Expansive Clay in Texas, Explained
Why Texas clay moves, how plasticity index measures it, where it sits under each metro, and how commercial sites engineer around it.
Read the guide →Dirt Export & Haul-Off
When a site cuts more than it fills, the surplus has to leave. How haul-off works, why you move more than you dig, and when clean fill can be reused.
Read the guide →Soil Compaction Explained
The Proctor test, optimum moisture, what 95 percent density means, lift thickness, and the field tests that prove every layer.
Read the guide →Dump Truck Sizes and Dirt Load Capacity
How many cubic yards and tons each truck holds, tandem vs end dump vs belly dump, Texas weight limits, and how many loads your job will take.
Read the guide →Flex Base vs Crushed Concrete
Flexible base is a spec, crushed concrete is a material that can meet it. What TxDOT Item 247 separates, when recycled base is the right call, and when the plans rule it out.
Read the guide →From the Job Site & Company News
Project stories and field notes from across Texas, with the volumes, the equipment and what the work actually cost, and news from the company.
Marc Scranton Joins Soil Depot
Fifteen years of aggregate production, demolition and heavy civil earthwork behind him, he joins the operating side of the business as Territory Operations Manager.
Read the story →Jimmy Board Joins Soil Depot
A commercial real estate executive with more than $25 billion in capital transactions behind him joins as Managing Director, Strategy and Development.
Read the story →Cut and Fill Explained
What cut and fill means, how earthwork volumes are figured, shrink and swell, what a balanced site is, and when a job imports or exports dirt.
Read the story →300,000 Cubic Yards Into North Fort Worth
Importing 300,000 cubic yards of common fill at 300 plus truckloads a day, with dozers and a street sweeper working the receiving end.
Read the story →13,000 Tons of Rock, Backhauled
Pairing a rock export with a common fill import for Scott and Reid produced a price about one third of the next lowest of four bids.
Read the story →400 Loads a Day in Fort Worth
Hundreds of thousands of tons of limestone on a David Weekley Homes project, with 3 excavators, 2 dozers and 40 trucks under one dispatch.
Read the story →Trucks Rolling in 24 Hours
Reliable Construction needed several thousand yards of import material at short notice in Carrollton. Trucks were moving within a day, at under half the open market cost.
Read the story →Export Cost Cut Nearly in Half
Exporting common fill in Melissa, Texas. Matching the material to a nearby site instead of a landfill took roughly half the cost out of the haul.
Read the story →Dirt and Rock Out of Melissa
Working with XS Construction on the newest Urban Garages development: excavator, trucks and hauling coordination for a mixed dirt and rock export.
Read the story →Delivering Dirt in Southlake
Import and export across DFW, including the established neighborhoods where keeping the road clean is part of the job.
Read the story →The Soil Calculator, in 30 Seconds
Draw the area on a map, pick the material and depth, allow for waste and compaction, choose the truck. Cubic yards, tons and truckloads out the other side.
Read the story →Where GCs Actually Save on Dirt Haul
Dirt haul is one of the most overlooked lines in a project budget, and one of the few that still has real money in it when it is planned early.
Read the story →Soil Depot in Houston
Our Gulf Coast operation, the regional manager who runs it, and the community work the team does when it is not moving dirt.
Read the story →Sponsoring Archway Academy
We sponsored a hole at the Archway Academy Golf Tournament in Houston, supporting a school that helps teens in recovery stay in school and thrive.
Read the story →How a Dirt Haul Runs, Start to Finish
From the order to the last load: sourcing, loading, the truck cycle, the receiving end, and the things that quietly decide whether the day works.
Read the story →Ready to order or estimate?
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