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Screened fill dirt free of debris, for raising low ground and backfilling. Structural material, place it in lifts and compact as you go.
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How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
Fill dirt is sold by the cubic yard and typically goes down in 6 to 12 inch lifts. One cubic yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, so a 10 by 20 foot low spot at 6 inches needs roughly 4 cubic yards, and you'd double that for a 12 inch fill. Measure the low area in square feet and match it to your target depth before ordering.
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Warwick Fill Dirt Delivery
Warwick Fill Dirt Delivery
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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.
Great service. We ordered topsoil from Mulch Mound and the best experience. Thank you so much!
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
How Much Fill Dirt Do I Need?
Fill dirt is sold by the cubic yard and typically goes down in 6 to 12 inch lifts. One cubic yard covers about 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, so a 10 by 20 foot low spot at 6 inches needs roughly 4 cubic yards, and you'd double that for a 12 inch fill. Measure the low area in square feet and match it to your target depth before ordering.
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What is a 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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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 ...
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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.
We have always spread our own mulch for the past 24 years. This was our first time with the Mulch Mound - things I liked: they have online ordering...
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We have always spread our own mulch for the past 24 years. This was our first time with the Mulch Mound - things I liked: they have online ordering and provide a digital receipt which means you can remember how much you ordered (I always forget for the next year!), they were on time, they were able to deliver in 48 hours, they were generous with the portion (we got 9 yards and it felt like a FULL nine yards!), the driver was polite! We have ordered from reputable places, and there is always a little trash in the mulch. The mulch we recv'd from Mulch Mound had barely any... we were pleasant surprised!!! Color was great! Not to mention - the price was competitive and LOWER than other mulch places around. We will use again !! Highly recommend! Thanks Mulch Mound!
Complete Your Outdoor Project
Fill dirt is structural, so it's rarely the last material on the job. Most Warwick projects cap it with a few inches of topsoil once the grade is set, especially if lawn or planting beds go on top. If you're building up around a pool or foundation, a layer of crushed stone under the fill can help with drainage before you backfill.
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Areas we deliver fill dirt in Warwick, Rhode Island
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Fill dirt is not something you dump and walk away from. Spread it in lifts of 6 to 8 inches and compact each one with a plate compactor or hand tamper before adding the next layer. Skip this step and you'll be watching your yard sink for years as the loose soil settles under its own weight, especially in low areas near Warwick's higher water table where moisture works into the fill from below.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
The most common mistake we see is people trying to grow grass straight into fill dirt. It's subsoil, screened of debris but stripped of the organic matter and nutrients that topsoil has. Cap any finished grade with 3 to 4 inches of actual topsoil before seeding or sodding, otherwise you'll get thin, patchy growth no matter how much fertilizer goes down.
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If you're backfilling around a pool or foundation, put down a layer of crushed stone first for drainage, then fill dirt on top, then cap with topsoil if anything needs to grow there. Doing it in that order once, in the right sequence, is cheaper than fixing drainage problems after the fact, and it matters more here given how quickly Warwick's sandy loam can move water toward a foundation wall.
Grading and Filling in Warwick
Warwick sits low, only 64 feet of elevation, and a lot of the native ground is sandy loam that drains fast but can still pool in low corners of a yard or around a foundation. Fill dirt is the structural fix for that, not a growing medium, it builds the ground back up so water moves where you want it to. With the freeze thaw swing between the October and May frost dates, ground here shifts, so compacted lifts matter more than they would somewhere with a shorter winter. Most calls we get in Warwick are for backfill around pools and foundations or leveling a yard before a patio or shed pad goes in.
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.