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 most structural fill jobs run 6 to 12 inches deep depending on how much grade you're correcting. Measure the low area's square footage, decide your target depth, and order in cubic yards from there rather than guessing bags, since bagged dirt isn't practical at this scale.
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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 most structural fill jobs run 6 to 12 inches deep depending on how much grade you're correcting. Measure the low area's square footage, decide your target depth, and order in cubic yards from there rather than guessing bags, since bagged dirt isn't practical at this scale.
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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 in Plainfield finish with a cap of topsoil once the fill is compacted, since nothing grows well straight in subsoil. If the finished area will see foot traffic or drainage concerns, a layer of gravel underneath doorways or low spots can help. Mulch or sod usually comes last, once the grade is set and stable.
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Compact in 6 to 8 inch lifts, not all at once. Dumping a full 12 inches and walking away looks fine for a season, then Plainfield's silt loam settles unevenly once it takes on moisture from spring rain or the freeze thaw cycle. A plate compactor rented for an afternoon after each lift saves you from a sunken patch showing up next to your foundation a year later.
The most common mistake we see locally is treating fill dirt like topsoil and planting straight into it. It's subsoil, screened of debris but stripped of the organic matter that makes silt loam workable here. Cap it with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil before grass, beds, or anything with roots goes in, or you'll be fighting poor drainage and compacted ground all season.
If you're filling a large low area, order the full volume in one delivery rather than staging multiple small loads. It's more efficient to spread and compact once, and you avoid mismatched material consistency between loads. Pair the order with topsoil delivered the same trip if your timeline allows, since both are priced by the yard and it saves a second delivery fee.
Plainfield sits on silt loam, which drains fine on the surface but holds water and shifts once it's saturated, so low areas near the river corridor and older parts of town settle over time. Fill dirt is how you correct that grade before anything else goes in, whether that's a patio slab, a shed pad, or the yard around a new pool. Because it's structural, not topsoil, it needs to be compacted in stages here rather than dumped and left, especially with our freeze thaw cycle running roughly October through late April. Skip the compaction step and you'll be watching that spot sink again by next spring.
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.
