Twin Oak Landscaping
Low spots hold water, scalp under the mower, and turn into mud. Filling and regrading them with screened topsoil is straightforward work that permanently fixes a problem you otherwise mow around forever.
Weston, Westport, Easton, Wilton, Redding, and Fairfield, Connecticut.
The Service
Lawns settle. Trenches from utility work sink, tree stumps rot out and leave hollows, wheel ruts set hard, and old fill compacts unevenly over years. The result is a lawn that scalps on the high spots, drowns in the low ones, and is unpleasant to walk on.
The fix is to bring the low areas up with screened topsoil, rake it to a true grade, and get grass growing into it. Done in the fall it pairs naturally with seeding, because freshly graded soil is the ideal seedbed and the new grass knits the repair together before winter.
Owner-Operated
Screened topsoil, raked to grade by hand, with the low spots walked and marked with you before any of it comes off the trailer.
What's Included
Our Process
Common Questions
Up to about an inch at a time, yes — grass will grow up through a thin topdressing. Anything deeper smothers the lawn underneath, so we either build it up over more than one visit or strip the sod, fill properly, and reseed. Which approach makes sense depends on how deep the hollow is.
More than people expect. A modest-looking dip can swallow a surprising volume once you are filling it to true grade. We calculate it at the estimate so the material cost is in the quote rather than a surprise partway through.
Sometimes, and we will be straight with you about when we cannot. If ground is low, filling it helps. If it is wet because water drains there from the whole property, or because there is a high water table or a clay pan underneath, adding soil moves the problem rather than solving it. That is a drainage job and it is outside what we take on.
Yes, as an add-on. Refreshing and regrading gravel drives and paths uses the same tools and the same skills, and the 42-inch blade on the tractor handles light spreading and grading well. Ask at the estimate.
Get a free estimate. We will tell you whether it is a fill job or a drainage problem — including when the answer is not one we can help with.