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One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most structural fill jobs run 6 to 12 inches deep depending on how much grade you're correcting. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your target depth, and order in cubic yards from there, rounding up rather than down since compaction will settle the lift some.
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I contacted Mulch Mound for #57 river rocks and it was easy and fast to get a delivery right before the holiday weekend. Stone was delivered as promised and place exactly where I asked. Excellent service! I will be ordering mulch next!
One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most structural fill jobs run 6 to 12 inches deep depending on how much grade you're correcting. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your target depth, and order in cubic yards from there, rounding up rather than down since compaction will settle the lift some.
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I contacted Mulch Mound for #57 river rocks and it was easy and fast to get a delivery right before the holiday weekend. Stone was delivered as pro...
I contacted Mulch Mound for #57 river rocks and it was easy and fast to get a delivery right before the holiday weekend. Stone was delivered as promised and place exactly where I asked. Excellent service! I will be ordering mulch next!
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I couldn't be happier with the speed and quality of the mulch delivery service of Mulch Mound. Every detail from ordering, to communication with on...
I couldn't be happier with the speed and quality of the mulch delivery service of Mulch Mound. Every detail from ordering, to communication with on time delivery, to perfect product placement was amazing. I needed more and I got it within 2 hours! I'm never doing this with bags again.
Most fill jobs around here finish with a cap of topsoil once the grade is where it needs to be, since fill dirt itself isn't meant to grow anything. If the area will see foot traffic or drainage stress, a layer of gravel or crushed stone underneath the fill can help where the clay loam is holding water.
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Farmington Hills clay loam holds water long after rain, so fill dirt placed without compaction will look fine for a season and then settle unevenly the next. Place it in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each one with a plate compactor or hand tamper before adding the next layer. Skipping this step is the single most common reason people end up with a sunken patch near a foundation or pool deck two years later.
Don't plant directly into fill dirt. It's subsoil, screened of debris but stripped of the organic content that lets roots and water move, so grass or shrubs planted straight into it will struggle. Cap the finished, compacted grade with 4 to 6 inches of actual topsoil before seeding or planting, and keep that boundary in mind when you're calculating total material for the job.
If you're both raising grade and improving drainage on a clay loam lot, it's worth ordering fill dirt and a load of coarse gravel together rather than as separate deliveries. Gravel under the fill near a foundation or low spot gives water somewhere to go instead of sitting against the clay, and combining orders saves a truck trip compared to scheduling them weeks apart.
With clay loam as the base soil around Farmington Hills, water tends to sit rather than move through, so low spots near foundations and pool decks stay soft well into spring. Fill dirt is the structural fix for that, packed in to raise the grade before anything else goes on top. At 850 feet elevation the area doesn't see dramatic runoff from higher ground, but heavy clay still holds moisture long after a storm, which makes compaction technique matter more here than the volume itself. This is a job material, used to solve a grading problem, not something tied to a planting season.
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.
