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Screened fill dirt free of debris, for raising low ground and backfilling. Structural material, place it in lifts and compact as you go.
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How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most projects call for 6 to 12 inches depending on how much grade you are correcting. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your depth, and that gives you the yardage. For anything deeper than 8 inches, plan on placing it in lifts rather than one pour.
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Altoona Fill Dirt Delivery
Altoona Fill Dirt Delivery
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About this fill dirt
Screened fill dirt free of debris, for raising low ground and backfilling. Structural material, place it in lifts and compact as you go.
Great service. We ordered topsoil from Mulch Mound and the best experience. Thank you so much!
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most projects call for 6 to 12 inches depending on how much grade you are correcting. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your depth, and that gives you the yardage. For anything deeper than 8 inches, plan on placing it in lifts rather than one pour.
What is a Yard?
What is a Yard?
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Adjust the quantity to match your project. One cubic yard covers about 100 to 160 square feet at a 2 to 3 inch depth.
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Select a delivery date you'd like for the product to be dropped off at your home
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Sit back, wait, and let us work our magic to make sure the highest quality product is delivered to your driveway.
One of the easiest customer service experiences I've had in a long time! Mulch Mound made it so simple. After putting it off for a while, I looked ...
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One of the easiest customer service experiences I've had in a long time! Mulch Mound made it so simple. After putting it off for a while, I looked at the weather and knew I needed to get to mulching ASAP before the rain came if I didn't want to wait another week. I put my order in for the next day online and they came right at 9 AM. The employee who dropped off the mulch did a great job, putting it right on the tarp I laid out, she even made sure none of it got on the yard and double checked the truck bed to make sure it all came out. The mulch was exactly what I needed and arrived right on time.
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We have always spread our own mulch for the past 24 years. This was our first time with the Mulch Mound - things I liked: they have online ordering and provide a digital receipt which means you can remember how much you ordered (I always forget for the next year!), they were on time, they were able to deliver in 48 hours, they were generous with the portion (we got 9 yards and it felt like a FULL nine yards!), the driver was polite! We have ordered from reputable places, and there is always a little trash in the mulch. The mulch we recv'd from Mulch Mound had barely any... we were pleasant surprised!!! Color was great! Not to mention - the price was competitive and LOWER than other mulch places around. We will use again !! Highly recommend! Thanks Mulch Mound!
Complete Your Outdoor Project
Most fill jobs finish with a few inches of topsoil capping the fill wherever grass, beds, or anything else needs to grow. If the area borders a slope or drainage path, some crushed stone or gravel at the base can help with settling and runoff before the fill goes in.
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Areas we deliver fill dirt in Altoona, Pennsylvania
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Fill dirt is not something you dump and walk away from. Place it in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each one before adding the next, especially with Altoona's silt loam base, which holds moisture and settles unevenly if it is not compacted in stages. Skip this and you will be watching that spot sink for the next two or three years, right when you thought the project was done.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
The most common mistake on hillside lots here is filling low ground without thinking about where water already runs. Silt loam sheds water slowly, so if your fill creates a new low pocket next to a downspout or slope runoff path, you have just built a mud problem. Walk the site after a rain before you order, and grade the fill slightly away from the house or any structure.
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Order slightly more than your calculated volume, five to ten percent extra, because compaction settles the pile and you will lose some material to that shrinkage as you build lifts. It is cheaper to have a little extra on site than to schedule a second small delivery for the last two yards you were short.
Grading and Filling in Altoona
Altoona sits at 1161 feet with a lot of sloped ground, and the silt loam that dominates local soil holds water and compacts unevenly if you do not do it right. Fill dirt is what you bring in to correct that, to raise a low corner of a yard or build a stable pad before anything else happens. This is structural material, not something you plant into, so it does the heavy work under a project rather than around it. With the frost line running from late October to mid May, most fill jobs here happen in the warmer stretch when the ground is workable and not frozen or saturated.
What Clean Fill Is
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 vs Topsoil
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.
Compact in Lifts
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.