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!
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One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, so a small low spot or backfill job might only need 1 to 2 yards, while a full pool surround or grade correction can run 10 yards or more. Measure the area in square feet, decide how many inches deep you need to fill, and scale from there since coverage drops as depth increases. Fill dirt runs about 1.3 tons per cubic yard, so factor that weight into where the truck can access your property.
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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!
One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, so a small low spot or backfill job might only need 1 to 2 yards, while a full pool surround or grade correction can run 10 yards or more. Measure the area in square feet, decide how many inches deep you need to fill, and scale from there since coverage drops as depth increases. Fill dirt runs about 1.3 tons per cubic yard, so factor that weight into where the truck can access your property.
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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.
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.
Very easy to place order online for our exact needs and very flexible for when we needed
Most fill dirt jobs finish with a topsoil cap, especially if lawn, beds, or sod are going in on top. If the area holds water during heavy rain, a layer of gravel or crushed stone underneath the fill can help with drainage before you build up grade. For pool or foundation backfill, some contractors alternate fill dirt with gravel lifts for extra compaction and stability.
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Fill dirt is not something you dump and walk away from. Place it in lifts of 6 to 8 inches and compact each layer with a plate compactor or hand tamper before adding the next. Skipping this step is the number one reason yards in this area develop sinkholes or soft spots near foundations two or three years after backfilling, once rain and freeze thaw cycles work through uncompacted fill.
A common mistake is planting or seeding directly into fill dirt. It is subsoil, not topsoil, so it lacks the organic matter and structure plants need. Always cap finished fill with at least 4 to 6 inches of screened topsoil before grass, beds, or sod go in. Skipping the cap usually means patchy growth and a second delivery later to fix what should have been done right the first time.
If your project needs both structural fill and a finished growing layer, order them as separate deliveries rather than trying to blend one product for both jobs. Fill dirt is priced and handled differently than screened topsoil, and keeping them separate on site also makes it easier to place each in the right lifts without mixing subsoil into your topgrowth layer.
North New Hyde Park sits on sandy loam, which drains well but also settles and shifts more than clay over time, especially around foundations and pool decks near the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway corridor. Fill dirt gives you a stable subsurface layer to build on before that sandy loam takes over again closer to the surface. Homes in this area often deal with uneven yards from older construction or utility work, and fill dirt is the practical fix for bringing those low spots back to grade. Because it is not a growing medium, it needs to go down in the right lifts here just like anywhere else, but the sandy base underneath means drainage generally is not the enemy it can be in heavier soils.
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.
