Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
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One cubic yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most structural fill jobs here run 6 to 12 inches depending on how much grade you are correcting. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your depth, and order in cubic yards from there. For anything deeper than 8 inches, plan on placing it in lifts rather than one thick dump.
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Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
One cubic yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most structural fill jobs here run 6 to 12 inches depending on how much grade you are correcting. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your depth, and order in cubic yards from there. For anything deeper than 8 inches, plan on placing it in lifts rather than one thick dump.
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Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will de...
Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
Placing an order online was so easy. Delivery was on time. When the driver realized we had a newly poured driveway they erred on the side of cautio...
Placing an order online was so easy. Delivery was on time. When the driver realized we had a newly poured driveway they erred on the side of caution and opted not ti drive in it. The company even sent me a message explaining that call. Would recommend!
Great service. We ordered topsoil from Mulch Mound and the best experience. Thank you so much!
Most fill jobs in Alpharetta get capped with a few inches of topsoil once the grade is set, especially if grass or beds are going back in. If you are backfilling around a pool or foundation, a layer of gravel underneath for drainage before the fill goes in helps with that clay's tendency to hold water. Mulch comes in later for the finished beds, but that is a separate step from the structural work.
Do not dump fill dirt in one deep pour if you are going past 8 inches. Spread it in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each one with a plate compactor or even by driving equipment over it before adding the next layer. Skipping this step is why people end up with a sunken patch two years later, the dirt keeps settling under its own weight and whatever is built on top follows it down.
On red clay lots like most of Alpharetta, wait for a dry stretch before placing fill if you can. Compacting fill dirt over wet clay traps moisture underneath and it never firms up right, it just stays soft and springy. Check the ground a day or two after rain, if it is still sticky and clumping to your boots, give it more time before you start building up the grade.
Fill dirt is not the material to buy for anything that needs to grow, it is priced and handled as bulk subsoil, not a growing medium. Order your structural fill first, get the grade right, then order topsoil separately as a thin cap layer. Trying to make one material do both jobs usually means paying for more topsoil grade material than the structural work actually needed.
Alpharetta sits on red clay that already drains slowly, so a lot of fill dirt jobs here are about correcting grade so water moves away from the house instead of pooling against a foundation or a pool deck. With elevation around 1063 feet and a good number of sloped lots, people use fill to level building pads and patio areas before construction. This is subsoil, not topsoil, so it will not support planting on its own, it is meant to be capped once the grade is right. Given the wet spring stretch before the March 28 last frost, getting drainage correct with fill before planting season matters more here than in flatter, sandier ground.
Clean fill is screened subsoil free of debris, roots, and contaminants. It is made for volume and grade, and it compacts predictably, which is exactly what you want under slabs, in trenches, and behind walls.
Fill dirt builds the shape of the ground, topsoil grows things on top of it. Bring the grade up with fill, then cap it with 4 to 6 inches of topsoil anywhere grass or plants are going in.
Place fill in layers of 4 to 6 inches and compact each one before adding the next. Dumping the full depth at once leaves voids that settle later, and settling is the one problem fill is supposed to solve.
