Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
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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 might only take a yard or two, while backfilling around a foundation or leveling a larger section of yard can run into double digits fast. Measure the low area in square feet, decide whether you need 6 or 12 inches based on how much you are raising the grade, and size your order from there since it is sold by the cubic yard.
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Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
One cubic yard of fill dirt covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, so a small low spot might only take a yard or two, while backfilling around a foundation or leveling a larger section of yard can run into double digits fast. Measure the low area in square feet, decide whether you need 6 or 12 inches based on how much you are raising the grade, and size your order from there since it is sold by the cubic yard.
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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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Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will de...
Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
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!
Most fill jobs finish with a topsoil cap since fill dirt is not meant to grow anything on its own. If you are leveling ground for lawn or garden afterward, pair your fill order with topsoil for the top few inches, and consider gravel if the area needs drainage before backfilling.
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Pullman's silt loam is fine and light compared to clay heavy soils, which means it can settle more than people expect if fill goes in all at once. Place it in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each layer with a plate compactor before adding the next. Skipping this step is the number one reason people end up with a sunken patch two years later, right where the old low spot used to be.
Because fill dirt is not a growing medium, do not skip the topsoil cap if grass or plants are going anywhere near it. A common mistake is spreading fill right up to final grade and seeding straight into it. Cap with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil first, especially with Pullman's short growing window between the May 5 last frost and the fall.
If you are filling a large low area, it often makes sense to order fill dirt for the bulk of the depth and finish with a thinner topsoil layer, rather than paying for topsoil the whole way down. This is standard practice on foundation backfill and bigger grading jobs, and it keeps the structural fill doing the job it is meant for.
Pullman sits on silt loam over rolling Palouse topography, which means a lot of properties have uneven grade before you even start building. That loose, wind deposited silt loam compacts differently than clay, so fill needs to go down in real lifts and get compacted deliberately or you will see settling for seasons. With frost coming early here, around October 5, and staying until May, anyone backfilling a foundation before winter needs the fill compacted and capped well ahead of freeze up. This is common ground preparation work before a build near campus or a new grade change on a hillside lot.
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.
