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 call for 6 to 12 inches depending on how much grade you are correcting. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your depth, then order in cubic yards rather than guessing, since underordering means a second delivery and a stalled project.
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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 call for 6 to 12 inches depending on how much grade you are correcting. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your depth, then order in cubic yards rather than guessing, since underordering means a second delivery and a stalled project.
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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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Sit back, wait, and let us work our magic to make sure the highest quality product is delivered to your driveway.
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 this area finish with a cap of topsoil once the fill is compacted, especially if grass or beds are going back on top. Some customers also order a bit of gravel for a base layer under patios or sheds built on the filled area. Nothing about fill dirt requires pairing, but almost no fill job ends with fill dirt as the last material placed.
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Bellefontaine's silt loam holds moisture longer than sandy soils, so fill placed in one thick lift traps water at the bottom and keeps settling for a season or more. Place fill in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each one with a plate compactor or hand tamper before adding the next. This matters most near foundations and pool decks, where uneven settling later means cracked concrete or a sunken edge instead of just a low patch of lawn.
The most common mistake we see locally is treating fill dirt like topsoil and planting straight into it. It has no structure for root growth and will compact hard under grass seed. Cap any area that needs to grow something with 4 to 6 inches of actual topsoil after the fill is settled and compacted, rather than trying to skip that step to save a delivery.
If your project spans both a low spot and a planting bed, order fill dirt for the structural volume and topsoil only for the final cap depth, rather than filling everything with topsoil. Fill dirt is subsoil, it costs less to produce and move by the yard, and using it for the bulk of the depth while reserving topsoil for the top few inches gets you the same result for less material overall.
Bellefontaine sits at the highest ground in Ohio, which sounds like good drainage but the silt loam underneath still holds water and settles unevenly once disturbed. That makes fill dirt a structural fix more than a landscaping one here, used to level low corners of yards, build up around new pool decks, and correct grading before a foundation pour. Because the native soil compacts slowly on its own, anyone filling low ground needs to compact in lifts rather than dump and walk away. This is not topsoil and it will not grow anything until it is capped.
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.
