Standard Mulch Material Cost Calculation

on about bidding mulch we're going to break mulch down into its two basic components materials and labor what we're going to focus on for this video is the material cost of the mulch I want you to be very careful because the material cost of the mulch will stay cemented as one cost but how far that material goes will depend on how deep you place the mulch and today's example we're going to focus on spreading and laying down mulch with fabric at three inches deep now why is that important let's get into the numbers one cubic yard of mulch will technically cover 108 square feet but just for round numbers we're going to make it a hundred square feet even so when you have a cubic yard of mulch going a hundred square feet and your average cost for mulch is twenty-five dollars in this example mulch $25 per cubic yard what you do is you divide that by 100 and what you come up with is 25 cents per square foot that's an important number to remember you also have to have that bulk mulch delivered whether that's by a pickup truck a dump trailer a dump truck you're going to find that the average cost at 2015 rates is about 15 cents per square foot now I'm breaking everything down in today's example into a per square foot basis we want to have a universal way of measuring our mulch quantity the other factor to this material cost is fabric underneath the fabric generally costs about 10 cents per square foot so let's add up those three components 25 cents per square foot for mulch yeah we're going to add up those three numbers 25