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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Fill dirt is sold by the cubic yard, and one yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth. Most structural fill jobs, like raising a low yard corner or backfilling around a foundation, run 6 to 12 inches deep, so a 200 square foot low spot at 8 inches will need somewhere around 3 to 4 yards. Measure the actual footprint you are raising and the depth you need before ordering, since fill is heavy and running short means a second delivery.
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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!
Fill dirt is sold by the cubic yard, and one yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth. Most structural fill jobs, like raising a low yard corner or backfilling around a foundation, run 6 to 12 inches deep, so a 200 square foot low spot at 8 inches will need somewhere around 3 to 4 yards. Measure the actual footprint you are raising and the depth you need before ordering, since fill is heavy and running short means a second delivery.
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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.
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 jobs around Lafayette finish with a layer of topsoil capping the fill once it is compacted, since fill dirt itself is not meant to grow anything. If the finished area needs to drain well given how flat and wet this region can get, some customers also bring in a bit of sand or gravel at the base before filling. Mulch on top of the topsoil layer is a natural next step if the area borders planting beds.
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Place fill dirt in lifts of 6 to 8 inches and compact each one before adding the next, this matters even more in Lafayette's silt loam because it holds moisture and compacts unevenly if you dump it all at once. A plate compactor or hand tamper run over each lift keeps the whole pad from settling unevenly over the following year, which is the most common complaint with fill dirt jobs done in a single pour.
The biggest mistake we see locally is people planting or sodding directly on fill dirt expecting it to perform like topsoil. It has no organic matter and compacts hard, so grass struggles or dies within a season. Always cap fill with 4 to 6 inches of actual topsoil once your grade is where you want it, and let that topsoil settle briefly before seeding or sodding over it.
If you are backfilling around a new pool or foundation, order fill and topsoil together rather than in two separate deliveries, it saves a truck trip and lets you sequence the compaction and capping in one work session. Pairing it with drainage gravel at the base is also worth considering here, since Lafayette's flat elevation and silt loam soil mean standing water is a real risk if the fill area does not slope away from structures.
Lafayette's silt loam holds water and sits low relative to the bayous and drainage canals that cut through the area, which means yards and foundation perimeters here settle and pond more than in sandier cities. Fill dirt is what people use to correct that, building the grade back up around a slab, a shed pad, or a low corner of the yard before anything else goes on top. Because this is subsoil, not topsoil, it is meant to be structural, you compact it in place and then cap it with topsoil or sod where you actually want grass or plants to grow. It is not weather sensitive the way mulch or compost is, so the job matters more than the season here.
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.
