How bulk material is sold — soil, mulch, gravel, sand, concrete. One cubic yard is twenty-seven cubic feet, which spreads over roughly a hundred square feet at three inches deep. That last figure is the sum most landscapers do in their head on site, and it is the one that decides how many loads the day needs.
Related terms
- TakeoffMeasuring the quantities a job needs — square footage, linear feet, fixture counts, cubic yards — off a drawing, a photo or the site itself.
- GradingShaping the ground so that water runs where you want it to, which normally means away from the building.
- HardscapeThe built parts of a landscape — patios, walls, paths, steps, decks — as opposed to softscape, which is everything that grows.
- Material costWhat the stuff on the job actually costs you, as opposed to what it cost the last time you bought it.
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