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!
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One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most structural jobs here call for 6 to 12 inches depending on how low the area is. Measure your low spot in square feet, decide your target depth, and work backward from there rather than guessing. For anything past a small patch job, ordering by the yard and having it delivered saves a lot of truck trips.
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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!
One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most structural jobs here call for 6 to 12 inches depending on how low the area is. Measure your low spot in square feet, decide your target depth, and work backward from there rather than guessing. For anything past a small patch job, ordering by the yard and having it delivered saves a lot of truck trips.
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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!
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 ...
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.
Most fill dirt jobs around Apex finish with a layer of topsoil on top, since this material is a base, not something you plant into. If the finished area needs a lawn, screened topsoil and grass seed suited to zone 8a go on last. Some customers also grab crushed stone for a compacted base under patios or sheds built on the newly raised ground.
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Apex's red clay base doesn't forgive shortcuts. If you dump fill dirt in one thick pour, it settles unevenly for years as the layers compress at different rates, and you'll see dips show up after the first hard rain. Place it in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each one with a plate compactor or hand tamper before adding the next. It's slower, but it's the difference between a yard that holds its grade and one you're patching every spring.
The most common mistake we see is people trying to seed or plant directly into fill dirt. It's subsoil, stripped of the organic matter that makes topsoil work, so grass struggles and shrubs sit in compacted ground with poor drainage. Always cap finished fill with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil before anything goes in the ground, especially given how slow Apex's clay already drains on its own.
If you're raising a large area, it's worth pricing fill dirt and topsoil separately rather than trying to do the whole job in topsoil. Fill dirt handles the bulk of the volume for a fraction of the material cost, and topsoil only needs to cover the top few inches. Order fill dirt for the structural base and finish thin with topsoil, it stretches your budget further on bigger jobs.
Apex sits on heavy red clay that already drains slow, so a lot of fill dirt jobs here are about correcting grade before water becomes a foundation or crawlspace problem. With an elevation around 499 feet and rolling lots common near the Apex Historic District, uneven yards are the norm rather than the exception. This dirt is meant to be compacted in place to build structure, not to feed anything growing. Cap it with topsoil once the grade is where you want it.
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.
