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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 jobs run 6 to 12 inches depending on how much grade you're correcting. For a foundation backfill or a low yard needing 8 inches over 300 square feet, you're looking at roughly 5 to 6 cubic yards, plus more if you're building up in stages. Measure the low area in square feet and decide your target depth before ordering.
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Boston Fill Dirt Delivery
Boston Fill Dirt Delivery
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The best local fill dirt, without the guesswork.
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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 jobs run 6 to 12 inches depending on how much grade you're correcting. For a foundation backfill or a low yard needing 8 inches over 300 square feet, you're looking at roughly 5 to 6 cubic yards, plus more if you're building up in stages. Measure the low area in square feet and decide your target depth before ordering.
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What is a Yard?
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How It Works
Getting started is easy — just follow these simple steps
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Choose your quantity
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.
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...
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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 on top if anything needs to grow, since fill dirt itself won't support turf or plantings. Some jobs also call for crushed stone underneath for drainage before the fill goes in, especially on the wetter, low lying lots common around Boston. Both pair easily with a fill delivery if you're planning the whole build up at once.
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Areas we deliver fill dirt in Boston, Massachusetts
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Boston's silty loam subsoil doesn't drain fast, so fill dirt placed against a foundation without a slight slope away from the house can trap water right where you don't want it. Grade the finished fill so it pitches away from any structure, even a gentle 2 percent slope helps. This matters more here than in sandier regions because the local soil already holds moisture longer than most.
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The most common mistake on fill jobs is dumping the whole depth at once and calling it done. Fill dirt needs to go down in 6 to 8 inch lifts, compacted between each layer, or it keeps settling for a year or two as it works itself down under its own weight. Skipping this step is why so many yards develop a sunken patch exactly where fill was added.
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If your project also needs topsoil on top for grass or beds, order both at once and have the fill delivered first so it has time to compact before the topsoil layer goes down. Trying to combine them into one thin layer defeats the purpose of either material and usually means redoing the work within a season.
Grading and Filling in Boston
Boston's silty loam holds water and compacts unevenly, which is part of why so many older properties near Faneuil Hall and the surrounding neighborhoods have settled low spots along fences and foundations. Fill dirt gives you a stable base to correct that, but it has to go down in lifts and get compacted, not dumped and leveled. With frost coming by mid October and staying possible into late April, projects that need the ground to hold shape through winter should get compacted well before the first freeze. Rushed fill jobs here are the ones that heave or sink once the frost line moves through.
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.