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 jobs here run 6 to 12 inches deep, so a 200 square foot low spot at 6 inches needs roughly 4 cubic yards, and doubling the depth roughly doubles the yardage. Measure the actual low area first, not the whole yard, since fill dirt is usually spot work, not a blanket layer.
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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 jobs here run 6 to 12 inches deep, so a 200 square foot low spot at 6 inches needs roughly 4 cubic yards, and doubling the depth roughly doubles the yardage. Measure the actual low area first, not the whole yard, since fill dirt is usually spot work, not a blanket layer.
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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.
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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 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 dirt jobs in Oroville finish with a topsoil cap once the structural depth is compacted, especially if lawn or planting beds go on top. If you are backfilling around a pool or foundation, a layer of compactable gravel underneath the fill can help with drainage given how fast our sandy loam moves water. Neither is required, but both come up often on real jobs.
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Sandy loam like ours compacts differently than clay, it settles faster under load but can also wash out at the edges if you leave a raw slope exposed through a wet winter. Build your fill in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each one with a plate compactor before adding the next, and taper the edges rather than leaving a vertical cut so runoff does not undercut the new fill during our rainy months.
The most common mistake we see locally is people filling a low spot in one pass and calling it done. Uncompacted fill over sandy loam keeps settling for a full year or more, so a patio or shed pad poured too soon will crack or tilt. Compact in lifts, let it sit through at least one rain cycle if you can, then check the grade again before building anything permanent on top.
If your project needs both structural fill and a growing layer on top, order them separately rather than trying to make one material do both jobs. Fill dirt has no nutrient value and compacts hard on purpose, so cap it with a few inches of real topsoil where grass or plants are going in. This two layer approach costs less overall than buying premium topsoil for a job that is mostly just raising grade.
Oroville sits at 167 feet with sandy loam soil that drains fast but shifts and settles more than people expect once you start adding fill. That matters for anything built up near the Dam area or on the lower ground toward the river, where a foundation or pool deck needs real structural backfill underneath it, not just loose dirt tossed in. Because the native soil here is already loose and sandy, uncompacted fill on top of it moves even more over time. Compacting fill dirt in lifts is not optional in this soil, it is the difference between a patio that stays flat and one that dips in two years.
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.
