More Eyes on Your Listing: How ReadyFill Also Posts Your Free Fill to Facebook
The Local Facebook Group Everyone Checks for Free Dirt
If you’ve ever searched for “free fill” or “clean fill wanted” online, chances are you’ve landed in a local Facebook group at some point. Someone’s posted a photo of a pile of dirt, twenty comments deep in “is this still available?”, half of them unanswered. It’s messy, it’s slow, and there’s no way to tell if the fill is actually clean or if the person posting is even still checking their messages. But people keep using these groups anyway — because until recently, there wasn’t really anything better.
Here’s the thing a lot of tip sites don’t realise: when you list your site on ReadyFill, you’re not just relying on people finding the app. ReadyFill also shares eligible free-fill opportunities straight into its own regional “Clean Fill Wanted” Facebook groups — so the contractors and diggers who still live on Facebook see your listing too, without you having to do anything extra.
Why This Matters — Two Systems, One Listing
A lot of tip sites are cautious about relying on a single channel to find contractors. Fair enough — if your only option is one app and nobody happens to open it that week, your land sits empty and the free fill goes somewhere else. ReadyFill solves this by working both ends at once.
List your site once through ReadyFill and it does two jobs simultaneously:
- Matches you directly with verified contractors on the platform, based on your location and the type of material you’re after.
- Surfaces your listing in the ReadyFill “Clean Fill Wanted” Facebook group for your region — reaching the contractors, excavator operators, and site managers who still prefer scrolling Facebook to opening an app.
You don’t need to do the posting twice, chase up comments, or manage a second inbox. It happens as part of listing on ReadyFill.
Your Region’s Group
ReadyFill runs a dedicated group for each state:
If you’re a contractor with a load to move, it’s worth joining your local group directly too — it’s a quick way to see what’s on offer nearby without opening the app every time.
Why Facebook Groups Alone Were Never Enough
To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with using Facebook to find fill — plenty of good matches have come out of these groups over the years. The problem was never the idea, it was the lack of anything backing it up. A plain Facebook post has no way to confirm who you’re actually dealing with, no record of whether a load was clean or contaminated, and no system for matching the right amount of material to the right site. It relies entirely on whoever happens to be scrolling at the right moment.
That’s really been the story of this whole industry until now — plenty of free fill out there, plenty of tip sites who’d take it, and no proper system connecting the two. Word of mouth, a phone call to a mate, a hopeful Facebook post — that’s been it. ReadyFill is built to be that system: verified accounts, direct contact between the two parties, and now, the reach of Facebook without losing any of that structure.
What This Means If You’ve Got Land That Could Take Fill
If you own vacant or low-lying land, a paddock that needs building up, or a site with a low spot that could use levelling, this is genuinely free material. Clean fill — dirt, sand, gravel, soil dug up from someone else’s construction or landscaping job — costs contractors real money to dispose of at a tip. When you take it instead, they skip that fee, and you get material to improve your land, all for nothing. No cash needs to change hands for a straightforward load of clean fill; the contractor’s saving is the fee they avoid paying elsewhere.
Worth remembering too: this is raw material straight out of the ground, not something that’s been sieved or washed. A stray bit of brick, a chunk of old concrete, or the odd root ball mixed through a load is normal for clean fill and not something to knock a delivery back over. What you’re checking for is a load that isn’t full of that stuff, and shows no sign of real contamination — chemicals, fuel, or soil from a site you wouldn’t trust. Reasonable expectations both ways is what makes this work.
Listing on ReadyFill means your site gets seen by contractors on the app and by whoever’s scrolling the Facebook group that day — double the reach for the same one listing.
Got land that could take clean fill? List your tip site on ReadyFill and get matched with contractors near you — for free. Follow ReadyFill on Facebook for updates and free-fill opportunities.