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 ba...
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Fill dirt is sold by the cubic yard, and one yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth. Most fill jobs in Jacksonville run 6 to 12 inches to bring a low area up to grade, so a 200 square foot low spot at 6 inches needs roughly 4 cubic yards, and double that if you're going 12 inches. Measure the low area in square feet first, then match it to your target depth before ordering.
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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 time delivery, to perfect product placement was amazing. I needed more and I got it within 2 hours! I'm never doing this with ba...
Fill dirt is sold by the cubic yard, and one yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth. Most fill jobs in Jacksonville run 6 to 12 inches to bring a low area up to grade, so a 200 square foot low spot at 6 inches needs roughly 4 cubic yards, and double that if you're going 12 inches. Measure the low area in square feet first, then match it to your target depth before ordering.
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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.
Select a delivery date you'd like for the product to be dropped off at your home
Sit back, wait, and let us work our magic to make sure the highest quality product is delivered to your driveway.
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.
We had a great experience today. This was our first time using Mulch Mound, and I found the price competitive and the online ordering very easy. ...
We had a great experience today. This was our first time using Mulch Mound, and I found the price competitive and the online ordering very easy. We are impressed with the quality of the mulch, too! It is covering well - a great value!
Delivery was smooth and on time!
The triple shredded mulch was great quality and just what we were looking for.
Most fill jobs finish with a cap of topsoil once the grade is where you want it, since fill dirt itself isn't meant to grow anything. If the finished area will see grass or planting beds, order topsoil for the top few inches after the fill is compacted. Some jobs also pair fill with gravel for drainage layers under patios or sheds.
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Jacksonville's sandy native soil doesn't compact the same way clay-heavy fill does, so don't assume your existing ground will hold a new fill layer without prep. Scarify or loosen the top few inches of native soil before placing fill, this gives the new material something to key into instead of sitting as a separate layer that shears apart later. Skipping this step is one of the more common reasons fill jobs settle unevenly within the first year.
The biggest mistake on fill jobs is dumping the full depth in one pass. Place fill in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each one with a plate compactor or hand tamper before adding the next. Skip this and the ground keeps settling for years, showing up as dips near foundations or pool decks well after the job looked finished.
Fill dirt is a structural material, not a growing medium, so don't waste money capping the whole depth with topsoil. Bring fill up to within 3 to 4 inches of final grade, compact it fully, then finish with a thinner topsoil layer only where grass or plants need to root. This keeps the higher cost material where it actually does something.
At 25 feet of elevation and with sandy soil underneath, Jacksonville doesn't drain the way you'd hope, and low spots near driveways, sheds, and pool decks tend to hold water after a storm rolls through off the coast. Fill dirt is how you fix that, not by amending the soil but by physically raising the grade with compactable material. Because the native soil is sandy, it doesn't offer much structure on its own, so bringing in a denser subsoil for backfill around foundations gives you something that will actually hold shape once compacted. This is a structural fix, not a planting one.
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.
