We had a great experience with mulch mound! Our mulch arrived when we requested. The delivery fee was so reasonable. We’ll use them again for sure!
About this fill dirt
Screened fill dirt free of debris, for raising low ground and backfilling. Structural material, place it in lifts and compact as you go.
We had a great experience with mulch mound! Our mulch arrived when we requested. The delivery fee was so reasonable. We’ll use them again for sure!
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How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
One cubic yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, so a 10 by 10 foot low spot needs roughly two yards to bring it up to grade. For deeper fills, figure your cubic footage and divide by 27 to get yards, then add a bit extra since compaction will settle the pile lower than it looks on delivery day. Most foundation backfill or grade raising jobs in Portland run 3 to 8 yards depending on the depth needed.
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Portland Fill Dirt Delivery
Portland Fill Dirt Delivery
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The best local fill dirt, without the guesswork.
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About this fill dirt
Screened fill dirt free of debris, for raising low ground and backfilling. Structural material, place it in lifts and compact as you go.
We had a great experience with mulch mound! Our mulch arrived when we requested. The delivery fee was so reasonable. We’ll use them again for sure!
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
One cubic yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, so a 10 by 10 foot low spot needs roughly two yards to bring it up to grade. For deeper fills, figure your cubic footage and divide by 27 to get yards, then add a bit extra since compaction will settle the pile lower than it looks on delivery day. Most foundation backfill or grade raising jobs in Portland run 3 to 8 yards depending on the depth needed.
What is a Yard?
What is a Yard?
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How It Works
Getting started is easy — just follow these simple steps
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Choose your quantity
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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Select a delivery date you'd like for the product to be dropped off at your home
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Sit back, wait, and let us work our magic to make sure the highest quality product is delivered to your driveway.
First time going with this company for mulch and it was an efficient process from start to finish. Website was easy—I told them exactly where I wan...
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First time going with this company for mulch and it was an efficient process from start to finish. Website was easy—I told them exactly where I wanted the mulch put on my driveway, and it was delivered perfectly when I got home from work the next day. Best deal around when I compared it to competitors and I will definitely be becoming back.
Complete Your Outdoor Project
Once the fill is compacted to grade, most Portland jobs cap it with a few inches of topsoil so grass or beds actually have something to root into. If the area sits near a foundation or drains poorly through that rocky loam, a layer of crushed stone underneath the fill helps water move away instead of pooling against the wall.
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Areas we deliver fill dirt in Portland, Maine
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Do not dump fill dirt in one deep pile and walk away. Place it in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each layer with a plate compactor or hand tamper before adding the next. Skipping this step is the number one reason Portland yards develop sunken spots two winters later, especially once frost heave works through loose fill that was never packed down properly.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Fill dirt is not a growing medium, it is structural. If you are raising a bed or lawn area, always cap the compacted fill with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil before seeding or planting. Skipping the topsoil cap means whatever you plant sits in dense subsoil with poor nutrients and worse drainage, which shows up as patchy growth by midsummer.
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If you are backfilling around a new foundation or pool wall, order a little more than your calculation since compaction typically reduces volume by 10 to 15 percent. It costs less to bring extra yards on the same delivery than to schedule a second truck for a small top off, especially once you are past your first frost date in October and the ground starts working against you.
Grading and Filling in Portland
Portland sits on rocky loam that does not drain evenly, so low areas near foundations and pool decks tend to hold water after spring thaw. Fill dirt gives you a stable base to raise that grade before anything else goes on top. With the ground freezing hard by early winter and frost heave a real concern here, a properly compacted fill base matters more than in milder climates. Most jobs around the city use it to build up low yards before laying topsoil for lawn or beds.
What Clean Fill Is
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 vs Topsoil
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.
Compact in Lifts
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.