Bulk Aggregates for Patios in Bigelow, AR

Ground and Conditions in Bigelow

A thin base fails the same way every time. The pavers rock, the joints open, and the surface dips where a truck crossed it.

Across the Arkansas River Valley, clay subsoils let go of water slowly. Wet clay softens and pumps under traffic all winter, so a base course has to carry the load on its own.

Work here runs nearly all year. A wet late winter and spring is the real limit, and summer heat can dry a surface before it can be rolled.

Plan your delivery around that window. Material that lands on saturated ground has nowhere good to sit.

Materials for Bigelow Projects

Bedding is where a paver or flagstone job is won. The bedding layer has to hold a true plane, stay put when it gets wet, and let you set each piece without fighting the material underneath.

Screenings, also called limestone fines or crusher fines, are the Arkansas bedding material for pavers, flagstone and brick. They also fill the joints and give you a tight walking surface.

Under the bedding, you want a base that locks up. SB-2 base is the standard Arkansas base material, a dense-graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone with the fines left in.

When you are building to a written standard, that same material is specified as Class 7 base, or Class 7 aggregate base course. Cities and engineers write it into street, sidewalk and parking standards.

Where a finer dense-graded material that binds and compacts is wanted, crusher run does the same work. Arkansas usually reaches for SB-2 first.

For drainage beside a patio, #57 limestone is the workhorse washed size. It goes into French drains, foundation and pipe drainage, and concrete aggregate.

Sand sets the finish. Mason sand handles brick, block and stone work, paver joints and play sand.

Washed sand is the bedding, leveling and sand under slabs and pools.

Where ground has to come up before anything goes down, fill dirt raises low ground and builds a pad up out of the wet first.

Delivery to Bigelow and the Surrounding Area

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator if you need to size the load.

Bulk delivery means a dump truck tips the load in one pile at your site. Have a clear spot in mind, because the pile lands where the truck can reach.

Bigelow sits in Perry County. Arkansas Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand, soil and mulch to sites in Bigelow and to Perryville, Perry, Houston, Casa and Adona.

Size the Load Before You Order

Start with the calculator on the product page, then order the quantity it gives you by the ton or by the yard. If bedding is the job, screenings are the material to look at first.

Arkansas Rock Supply delivers bulk material across Bigelow and Perry County, so pick a delivery date at checkout and the truck will tip your load on site.