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 300 square foot low spot at that depth runs close to 6 yards. If you are going deeper, say 12 inches to correct a real dip near a foundation, plan on roughly double that volume for the same footprint. Measure the area and the depth you need filled, then order by the cubic yard rather than guessing at bags.
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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 300 square foot low spot at that depth runs close to 6 yards. If you are going deeper, say 12 inches to correct a real dip near a foundation, plan on roughly double that volume for the same footprint. Measure the area and the depth you need filled, then order by the cubic yard rather than guessing at bags.
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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 few inches of topsoil capping the fill dirt, since fill on its own will not support grass or plantings. If you are backfilling around a pool or foundation, some crews layer in a bit of coarse gravel first for drainage before the fill goes on top. Ask about topsoil delivery in the same order if you know the finish grade needs planting.
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Fill dirt is a structural material, not something to dump in all at once. Place it in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each layer with a plate compactor before adding the next. Skip this on a South Bend lot with sandy loam underneath and you will watch the fill settle unevenly over a wet spring, leaving low spots right back where you started, sometimes worse near foundation walls.
The most common mistake with fill dirt is expecting to plant into it. It has no organic matter and compacts hard, which is exactly what you want structurally but the opposite of what grass or shrubs need. Always cap finished fill with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil before seeding, sodding, or planting anything, especially with our frost date running from October into May, when root establishment time is already short.
If you are filling a large low area, order fill dirt for the bulk of the depth and save topsoil for just the top few inches, since topsoil costs more per yard and does nothing structurally that fill dirt does not already do better. Pairing the two this way gets you a stable, well graded yard without overpaying for material where it is not doing any extra work.
South Bend sits on sandy loam, which drains well but does not always solve grading problems on its own, especially in older neighborhoods near Notre Dame where lots were leveled decades ago and have settled unevenly since. Fill dirt gets used here to correct that, raising sunken patches, filling around new pool walls, and building a stable base before a final layer of topsoil goes on. Because the ground freezes by mid October and does not fully thaw until around May 1, most fill projects get scheduled in the warmer months so compaction actually holds. This is subsoil, not something you plant into directly, so it needs a cap of real topsoil wherever grass or beds are going in.
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.
