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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 backfill or grade raising jobs run 6 to 12 inches deep. For a small area like backfilling around a foundation wall, a few yards often does it, but leveling a low section of yard or building up before topsoil can run into double digits, so measure the low area's square footage and multiply by your target depth in feet.
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Hillsdale Fill Dirt Delivery
Hillsdale 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?
One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most backfill or grade raising jobs run 6 to 12 inches deep. For a small area like backfilling around a foundation wall, a few yards often does it, but leveling a low section of yard or building up before topsoil can run into double digits, so measure the low area's square footage and multiply by your target depth in feet.
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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 dirt jobs finish with a few inches of topsoil capping the fill wherever grass, garden beds, or sod need to grow, since fill dirt itself is not a growing medium. If the area near a foundation or pool is prone to standing water, a layer of gravel underneath the fill can help with drainage before you build up grade.
Service area
Areas we deliver fill dirt in Hillsdale, New Jersey
- Bergenfield, Jersey
- Bogota, Jersey
- Closter, Jersey
- Cresskill, Jersey
- Dobbs Ferry, York
- Dumont, Jersey
- Emerson, Jersey
- Greenville, York
- Harrison, York
- Hastings-on-Hudson, York
- Leonia, Jersey
- Maywood, Jersey
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Do not dump fill dirt in one deep pour and walk away. Place it in lifts of 6 to 8 inches and compact each layer before adding the next, especially over Hillsdale's clay loam base which already holds moisture. Skipping compaction is the number one reason yards here see sinking and puddling a year or two after a fill job, right around a foundation or patio edge.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Fill dirt is not something you plant into, it is a structural base. Once you have your grade built up and compacted, cap it with several inches of real topsoil before seeding or laying sod. People who skip this step end up with bare, compacted patches that grass never takes to, no matter how much they water or fertilize.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
If you are backfilling around a foundation or pool wall, order slightly more fill than your flat math suggests, compaction eats volume as the material settles into itself. It is more efficient to have a little extra on site than to schedule a second small delivery for one more yard, especially with clay loam underneath that is unforgiving of shortcuts.
Grading and Filling in Hillsdale
Hillsdale sits at a modest 62 feet elevation with clay loam soil underneath, which means water does not move through the ground fast once it hits low areas of a yard. A lot of the fill dirt jobs we see here are foundation backfill on older homes near Hillsdale Train Station, or leveling yards before a patio or shed goes in. Because the base soil is clay heavy, getting the grade right with fill before topsoil matters more here than in sandy areas, since poorly compacted fill on top of clay loam will hold water and settle unevenly. This is structural material, not something you plant into directly.
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.