Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
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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, or roughly 27 square feet if you are going a full 12 inches. Most structural fill jobs, like raising a low corner of a yard or backfilling around a foundation wall, land somewhere in that 6 to 12 inch range depending on how much grade change you need. Measure your low area in square feet first, then decide your target depth before ordering.
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Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
Fill dirt is sold by the cubic yard, and one yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, or roughly 27 square feet if you are going a full 12 inches. Most structural fill jobs, like raising a low corner of a yard or backfilling around a foundation wall, land somewhere in that 6 to 12 inch range depending on how much grade change you need. Measure your low area in square feet first, then decide 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.
Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will de...
Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
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!
Most fill dirt jobs finish with a topsoil cap, since fill is a structural base and not something anything will grow in on its own. If the finished area is going to be lawn or garden, plan on 4 to 6 inches of topsoil over the compacted fill. Some jobs also pair fill with gravel for a drainage layer underneath decks or sheds built on the softer silt loam common around here.
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Do not dump fill in one deep pile and call it done. Spread it in lifts of 6 to 8 inches and compact each one with a plate compactor or by hand tamping before adding the next layer. Skipping this step is the single biggest reason people call us back a year later asking why their yard has a sunken spot, especially on silt loam ground that already holds moisture and settles unevenly under uncompacted fill.
With first frost arriving by mid October in Jamestown, try to get fill placed and compacted before the ground starts freezing at night, since compacting frozen or half frozen soil does not pack the same way and leaves voids that show up as settling in spring thaw. Late summer through early fall is a practical window for foundation and grading work here before the weather turns.
If your project needs both structural height and something to grow on top, order fill and topsoil as separate deliveries rather than trying to blend them yourself. Fill compacts best when it is just subsoil, and mixing in topsoil weakens the structural layer while wasting good growing soil underneath where roots will never reach it.
Jamestown sits on silt loam that already holds water well, which means low spots and drainage swales around the city tend to stay soft into late spring. Fill dirt gives you a structural base to raise that ground above the water table before anything else gets built or planted on it. With frost reaching into mid October and lingering into May, projects here often get squeezed into a shorter window, so getting fill delivered and compacted early matters. It is common in this area to see fill used around foundations on the older housing stock near downtown, where grading has settled unevenly over decades.
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.
