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 of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most projects run 6 to 12 inches deep depending on how much grade you need to correct. Measure the low area's square footage, decide your target depth, and work backward from there rather than guessing. For anything deeper than 8 inches, plan on placing it in lifts rather than one big pour.
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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 of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most projects run 6 to 12 inches deep depending on how much grade you need to correct. Measure the low area's square footage, decide your target depth, and work backward from there rather than guessing. For anything deeper than 8 inches, plan on placing it in lifts rather than one big pour.
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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 dirt jobs finish with a cap of topsoil once the grade is set, especially anywhere grass or beds are going in on top. If you're backfilling around a foundation or pool wall, a layer of gravel underneath for drainage is worth considering before the fill goes in. Mulch or additional topsoil can follow once the structural work is done and the area's ready to plant.
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In Columbia's clay-heavy ground, fill dirt that goes in dry compacts poorly and keeps settling for months. Lightly wet each 6 to 8 inch lift before tamping, enough to darken the soil without pooling water, then compact with a plate tamper or hand tamper for smaller areas. Skipping this step is the number one reason people end up with a sunken patch a year later where they thought the job was done.
Do not plant directly into fill dirt and expect anything to grow well. It is subsoil, stripped of the organic matter and nutrients that topsoil carries, so cap it with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil before seeding or laying sod. Skipping the cap is the most common mistake we see, usually followed by a call asking why the grass never took.
If you're backfilling a large area, it's often more efficient to order fill dirt for the bulk of the depth and finish with a thinner topsoil layer, rather than using topsoil the whole way down. Topsoil costs more per yard and offers no benefit buried under 8 inches of ground. Save the topsoil for the top few inches where roots actually live.
Columbia sits on clay that drains slow and holds water long after a storm, which is exactly why low spots stay soggy and foundations settle unevenly. Fill dirt gives you a structural base to correct that grade before anything else happens on the site. It is not a growing medium, so it will not feed plants or hold nutrients like topsoil does, but that is the point when you need something that compacts and stays put. Most jobs here involve leveling a yard before building on top of it, not planting straight into 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.
