Back Filling Land

[geordie]

Hi all, i hope that i have posted this in the right section.

I have just started having land at the back of my home back filled, it measures about 1050 m2 and is about 2-1/2 meters deep. The reason for this is to make a new garden, plus i do not like it as i have a daughter 2 years old and it is a constant worry, although i have a gate on the back wall. It was used originaly for fish, as we got the land given off my wifes mother as a wedding present.

What i want to know is would the land they are using be from an old rice field or from some where that someone wants to make a rice field. I am in the USA at the working and will not get back until the 26th of this month.

If it is land from an old rice field, will i have to do something with the land say the top 1 or 2 foot, so i can start to make the garden ie put a lawn down and flower beds.

I do not want to start planting and find out i have wasted my time.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Geordie.

[sleepyjohn]

I'm not the world's greatest expert on fill but I do know that it comes in different grades and the cheapest and most common one, about 300baht/truckload up in CM area, is very poor quality. You might use this for the bottom part of the fill then raise the quality as it gets higher.

[geordie]

Thanks for the reply Sleepyjohn,

i have had 2 prices for the land fill, 1 said 5oobaht for a truck says maybe about 300 trucks maybe more. The 1 that is doing it has given my wife a price all in of 150.000 baht. The size that i mentioned in my post is the size of the hole that had the fish in it. When i built my house i had that part of the land raised, so i will be filling the hole up and then about 1 meter higher to get all of the land to the same height.

Do you think it would be ok to have the last 1 meter using good land it needed.

Cheers Geordie