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!
Thanks! We received your request.
Something went wrong. Please try again.
One cubic yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, which is the minimum working depth for fill dirt, and 12 inches is common where you are correcting a real low spot or building a base. For a typical 10 by 10 foot low area at 8 inches deep, plan on roughly 2.5 cubic yards. Measure the actual low or backfill area in square feet, decide your depth, and order in full yard increments since it is sold by the cubic yard.
Couldn't load pickup availability
We hand-pick and partner with the best yards in your region, keep only the ones our buyers rate well, and back each load with our guarantee.
If your fill dirt isn't the quantity or quality you ordered, we'll make it right.
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 covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, which is the minimum working depth for fill dirt, and 12 inches is common where you are correcting a real low spot or building a base. For a typical 10 by 10 foot low area at 8 inches deep, plan on roughly 2.5 cubic yards. Measure the actual low or backfill area in square feet, decide your depth, and order in full yard increments since it is sold by the cubic yard.
Thanks! We received your request.
Something went wrong. Please try again.
Getting started is easy — just follow these simple steps
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.
Fill dirt is almost never the last material on a job. Once you have compacted your base, cap it with a few inches of topsoil if grass, beds, or anything else needs to grow there, since fill dirt on its own will not support root growth well. For pool backfill or foundation work, some jobs also call for a layer of gravel underneath for drainage before the fill goes in.
Service area
Do not dump fill dirt in one deep pile and call it done. Place it in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each layer before adding the next, ideally with a plate compactor rather than just tamping with a boot. In Naperville's silt loam, uncompacted fill will keep settling through freeze thaw cycles for a year or two, and you will end up with the same low spot you started with, just a season later.
The most common mistake we see is people trying to grow grass or plants directly in fill dirt. It is subsoil, stripped of the organic matter that plants need, so it will not hold a lawn well on its own. Always cap finished, compacted fill with 4 to 6 inches of actual topsoil before seeding or planting anything, even if that means a second delivery.
If you are backfilling around a pool or foundation in Naperville, plan the fill work for a stretch without heavy rain, since silt loam turns slick and hard to compact properly when wet. Late spring after the last frost on May 15 through early fall before the October frost gives you the widest window of workable, dry conditions for compacting in lifts.
Naperville sits on silt loam that compacts unevenly and holds moisture longer than sandy soil, which is part of why so many yards develop low spots near foundations and patios over a few years. Fill dirt is the structural fix, not a growing medium, so it goes down first and gets compacted before anything else happens. With frost reaching down through winter and the ground heaving some years, uncompacted fill will settle and reopen the low spot by spring. Most of the calls we get are backfill around new pools, foundation regrading, or building a base before topsoil goes on for a lawn or bed.
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.
