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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One cubic yard of this fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and at 1.3 tons per yard it is heavy enough that most projects call for a real delivery rather than a few bags. Measure the low area in square feet, decide whether you are filling 6 or 12 inches, and that tells you the yardage. For a pool backfill or a large grade raise, sketch the footprint first, since these jobs eat more material than people expect.
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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!
One cubic yard of this fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and at 1.3 tons per yard it is heavy enough that most projects call for a real delivery rather than a few bags. Measure the low area in square feet, decide whether you are filling 6 or 12 inches, and that tells you the yardage. For a pool backfill or a large grade raise, sketch the footprint first, since these jobs eat more material than people expect.
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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.
Most fill dirt jobs finish with a cap of topsoil once the structural fill is compacted, especially if turf or planting beds go on top. Some Palmdale customers pair a fill order with decomposed granite or gravel for pathways and drainage runs cut into the same grading project. If the area will see any planting, budget for topsoil on top rather than trying to grow anything in the fill itself.
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Do not dump this fill dirt and walk away thinking it is done. It needs to go down in 6 to 8 inch lifts, each one compacted with a plate compactor or hand tamper before the next layer goes on top. Skip that step and you will watch the area sink unevenly over the next year or two as it settles on its own, which is a real problem on Palmdale's sandy loam once irrigation or rain starts working through it.
A common mistake is trying to plant directly into fill dirt. It is subsoil, stripped of organic matter, and it will not support root growth or drainage the way topsoil does. Always cap fill with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil before seeding lawn or setting in shrubs, otherwise you are fighting compacted, nutrient poor ground from day one.
If your project needs both fill and finish material, order them as separate deliveries timed a few days apart rather than mixing them on site. That gives you time to compact and check grade on the fill before topsoil goes down, which saves you from having to dig back into a capped area to fix a low spot underneath.
Palmdale sits on sandy loam at over 2600 feet, ground that drains fast but also settles unevenly once you disturb it for a pool cut or a foundation trench. That native soil does not stay put well when it is loose, so fill dirt gives you a structural base you can actually compact in lifts. With the freeze window running November through mid March, most backfill and grading work here happens outside that stretch when the ground is workable. Aerospace Valley properties with pool installs or additions near Air Force Plant 42 commonly need this exact material to bring low areas up to grade before finish soil goes on.
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.
