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 10 by 20 foot low spot at that depth runs close to 4 cubic yards. For deeper builds, foundation backfill or pool surrounds at 12 inches, plan on roughly double that per square foot. Measure the area first, decide your depth based on what's going on top, then order 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 10 by 20 foot low spot at that depth runs close to 4 cubic yards. For deeper builds, foundation backfill or pool surrounds at 12 inches, plan on roughly double that per square foot. Measure the area first, decide your depth based on what's going on top, then order 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 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!
Fill dirt is a base, not a finish, so most jobs cap it with a few inches of topsoil once grade is set, especially anywhere grass or beds are going in. Some pool and patio jobs layer compactable gravel over the fill for extra stability before pavers or a hardscape surface goes down. If you're building up a large low area, ordering both fill and topsoil at once means one delivery instead of two.
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Don't dump fill dirt in one thick pile and call it done. Spread it in lifts of 6 to 8 inches and compact each one with a plate compactor or by hand tamping before adding the next layer. Skipping this step is the number one reason people end up with a sunken patch two years later, especially over glacial till where the base underneath is already uneven and won't forgive shortcuts.
Fill dirt is not a growing medium, it has none of the organic matter or nutrients that topsoil carries. If anything in the filled area will grow grass, shrubs, or garden beds, plan on capping the compacted fill with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil before you plant. Skip this and you'll spend a season wondering why nothing takes root.
If you're filling a large low spot or backfilling a long foundation run, order fill dirt for the bulk of the volume and save topsoil for just the top few inches. It's a more efficient use of material since fill handles structure and topsoil handles growth, and you're not paying for organic content in a layer that's getting buried anyway.
Glacial till under St. Cloud yards tends to be compacted and rocky, which means low spots don't drain the way you'd expect and new foundation backfill needs a consistent material to settle evenly. Fill dirt gives you that consistency, something uniform to build grade with before topsoil or turf goes on top. With frost reaching deep into the ground here by winter, poorly compacted fill can heave or settle unevenly come spring thaw. Getting the lifts right matters more in this climate than in milder ones.
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.
