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 covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, so a 10 by 10 foot low spot needs roughly two cubic yards at that depth, more if you're going deeper. Fill dirt is typically installed 6 to 12 inches deep depending on what you're building up to, so measure your target grade first and work backward. Order by the cubic yard and round up rather than short, a second delivery costs more in time than material.
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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 covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, so a 10 by 10 foot low spot needs roughly two cubic yards at that depth, more if you're going deeper. Fill dirt is typically installed 6 to 12 inches deep depending on what you're building up to, so measure your target grade first and work backward. Order by the cubic yard and round up rather than short, a second delivery costs more in time than material.
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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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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.
Fill dirt gets you to grade, but nothing grows in it long term, so plan on capping the finished surface with topsoil before seed or sod goes down. If you're building up around a pool or foundation, a layer of gravel underneath the fill helps with drainage before you start piling dirt. Compaction equipment, even a hand tamper for small jobs, is worth having on site.
Southfield's clay loam does not forgive shortcuts. Place fill in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each one before adding the next, whether that's with a plate compactor or just heavy foot and wheel traffic over a few days. Skip this and the ground keeps settling for a year or two, especially near foundations where water table and freeze thaw cycles work against you. A rented plate compactor for a weekend costs far less than redoing a sunken patch later.
The most common mistake we see is people trying to plant directly into fill dirt. It's subsoil, stripped of the organic matter and microbial life that topsoil has, so grass and plants struggle or fail outright. Always cap finished fill with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil before seeding, sodding, or planting anything. If the area is just for a shed pad, patio base, or driveway extension, this doesn't apply, but for any living landscape it's non negotiable.
If you're filling a large low area, consider mixing fill dirt for the bulk of the depth with a thinner topsoil cap rather than paying for topsoil the whole way down. Fill dirt is cheaper to produce since it skips screening for organic content, so using it for structural depth and saving topsoil for the top few inches stretches your project budget further without compromising what actually needs to grow.
Southfield sits on clay loam that compacts hard when it's dry and turns to soup when it's wet, which is exactly why fill dirt jobs here go sideways if you skip compaction. With freeze depth reaching well below grade before the May 3 thaw, loose fill under a patio or shed pad will heave and settle for a couple seasons if it isn't compacted in lifts. Most of our Southfield orders are backfill around new foundations near the Town Center corridor, or low yard corners that pond after spring rain. This is structural material, treat it that way.
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.
