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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 weighs about 1.3 tons per cubic yard, so a load adds up fast once you're filling a low spot or backfilling around a foundation wall. One cubic yard covers roughly 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most jobs here call for 6 to 12 inches depending on how much grade you're recovering. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your depth, and order in cubic yards from there.
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West Allis Fill Dirt Delivery
West Allis 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 weighs about 1.3 tons per cubic yard, so a load adds up fast once you're filling a low spot or backfilling around a foundation wall. One cubic yard covers roughly 54 square feet at a 6 inch depth, and most jobs here call for 6 to 12 inches depending on how much grade you're recovering. Measure the low area in square feet, decide your depth, and order in cubic yards from there.
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What is a Yard?
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How It Works
Getting started is easy — just follow these simple steps
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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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Select a delivery date you'd like for the product to be dropped off at your home
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Sit back, wait, and let us work our magic to make sure the highest quality product is delivered to your driveway.
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
Most fill dirt jobs around West Allis finish with a few inches of screened topsoil on top wherever grass or plants need to grow, since the fill itself won't support them. If you're backfilling near a foundation or pool, a layer of crushed stone underneath can help with drainage before the dirt goes in. Pairing fill dirt with topsoil delivered on the same trip keeps a grading project moving without a second order.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Silt loam like what's under most West Allis yards holds water longer than sandy soil, so don't dump a full 12 inches of fill dirt in one pass. Spread it in 6 to 8 inch lifts and compact each layer with a plate compactor or hand tamper before adding the next. Skipping this step is the number one reason people call us back a year later wondering why their yard has a sunken patch near the foundation.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
A common mistake is treating fill dirt like topsoil and trying to seed grass straight into it. It's subsoil, screened of debris but stripped of the organic matter that actually feeds plants. Cap any area that needs to grow something with 4 to 6 inches of real topsoil after your fill has settled and compacted, otherwise you'll be reseeding a bare patch every spring.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
If you're filling a large low spot before Wisconsin's frost season locks up the ground in late October, order fill dirt and topsoil together in one delivery instead of two separate trips. It saves on truck access disruption to your driveway and lets you compact the fill and cap it with topsoil in the same work session, which matters when you're racing the calendar before winter.
Grading and Filling in West Allis
West Allis sits on silt loam that holds water and settles unevenly once you dig into it, which is exactly why raw fill dirt matters here for backfill around foundations near Wisconsin State Fair Park and in older neighborhoods with uneven yards. With a last frost around May 1 and first frost around Oct 23, most grading and backfill work happens in that window before the ground locks up. This dirt is a structural base, not a planting medium, so any lawn or bed work still needs a topsoil cap. Compacting in lifts matters more here than in sandier soils, since silt loam can trap moisture and keep settling if it is dumped in all at once.
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.