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!
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One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, so a 10 by 20 foot low spot needing 6 inches of fill runs close to 4 cubic yards. If you are going deeper, closer to 12 inches for a foundation backfill or major regrade, plan on roughly double that per square foot. Order by the cubic yard and round up slightly, since compaction will eat into your final depth.
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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!
One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, so a 10 by 20 foot low spot needing 6 inches of fill runs close to 4 cubic yards. If you are going deeper, closer to 12 inches for a foundation backfill or major regrade, plan on roughly double that per square foot. Order by the cubic yard and round up slightly, since compaction will eat into your final depth.
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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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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!
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 ...
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.
Most fill dirt jobs around Farmington finish with a layer of topsoil on top wherever grass or plants need to establish, since fill dirt itself is a structural material, not a growing medium. If the finished area will see foot traffic or drainage, some customers also order a load of gravel for a base layer before the fill goes in. Mulch or compost comes later, once the topsoil cap is down and planting starts.
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Fill dirt is a structural material, not something you dump in one deep pile and walk away from. Place it in lifts of 6 to 8 inches and compact each layer before adding the next, either with a plate compactor or by wetting and tamping if you are working by hand. Skip this step and the ground will keep settling for years, which shows up later as a sunken patch near a foundation or patio edge.
A common mistake in Farmington is filling a low spot right before planting grass and expecting it to hold. Fill dirt has no nutrients and drains differently than the silt loam around it, so anything planted directly into it struggles. Always cap with a few inches of real topsoil once your grade is set and compacted, then seed or sod into that layer instead of the fill itself.
If your project needs both fill and topsoil, order the fill dirt first and let it compact for a few days before bringing in topsoil, rather than trying to do both in one visit. This avoids mixing the two layers together during placement, which weakens the structural base you just built and wastes the topsoil's value as a growing layer.
Farmington sits at 948 feet with silt loam soil underneath most yards, which holds water and compacts unevenly if you build on top of it without proper prep. That makes fill dirt a common need for leveling low areas before a patio, shed, or addition goes in, especially on older lots near Courthouse Square Historic District where grading has shifted over decades. This is subsoil, not topsoil, so it is meant to build structure underneath, not to grow anything in directly. Cap it with real topsoil once the grade is where you want it.
Fill dirt is inorganic subsoil sold for volume and grade, not for growing. Small rocks and bits of stick or root are normal in the mix. 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.
