Great service. We ordered topsoil from Mulch Mound and the best experience. Thank you so much!
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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.
Great service. We ordered topsoil from Mulch Mound and the best experience. Thank you so much!
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How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
Fill dirt is sold by the cubic yard, and one yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, less if you're going deeper toward the 12 inch end of typical install depth. Measure the low area's square footage, decide how many inches you need to raise it, and that tells you the yardage. For anything beyond a small patch job, most Cookeville customers order more than they think they need because settling eats into it.
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Cookeville 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?
Fill dirt is sold by the cubic yard, and one yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, less if you're going deeper toward the 12 inch end of typical install depth. Measure the low area's square footage, decide how many inches you need to raise it, and that tells you the yardage. For anything beyond a small patch job, most Cookeville customers order more than they think they need because settling eats into it.
What is a Yard?
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
Fill dirt is a base layer, so most jobs cap it with a few inches of topsoil once the grade is where it needs to be and something has to grow on top. If the finished area needs drainage help before backfilling, a layer of gravel underneath is worth considering too. Think of the order as fill first, topsoil last, with whatever sits on top depending on what the space is for.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Don't dump fill dirt in one deep pile and call it done. Place it in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each one before adding the next, especially over Cookeville's silt loam, which compresses more than sandier soils once it's wet. Skip this step and you'll be watching that spot sink for two or three years, especially near a foundation or pool wall where uneven settling actually causes problems.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
The most common mistake we see is treating fill dirt like topsoil and trying to plant straight into it. It's subsoil, screened of debris but stripped of the organic matter that makes silt loam good for growing here. Always cap the finished, compacted fill with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil before seeding or planting anything, or you'll fight poor drainage and weak growth the whole first season.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
If your project spans multiple lifts, order the full yardage at once rather than in stages. It's more efficient to compact a known quantity in planned layers than to guess low, compact, and realize you're short by a yard with a half finished grade. Pair the order with topsoil delivery for the cap layer so you're not scheduling a second truck for a small finishing amount.
Grading and Filling in Cookeville
Cookeville's silt loam holds water well, which is good for lawns but bad news for a low spot that stays soft after every rain rolling off toward Cummins Falls. Fill dirt gives you a structural base to bring that grade up so water moves off the property instead of sitting in it. At 1100 feet of elevation with a fair amount of grade change across town, a lot of lots here need buildup around foundations or pool decks before anything else happens. This is not a growing medium, it is the layer that goes down first so the rest of the project has somewhere solid to sit.
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.