Mason Sand for Patios in Bettendorf, IA

Iowa Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Bettendorf, IA, and the working season sets the schedule. Low ground waits for the spring river crest to pass before any base goes in.

Upland work follows the ordinary thaw to fall freeze pattern.

Class A roadstone is the base most drives and pads here start from, and it goes down over the right bedding. Order online when your site is ready.

Ground and Conditions in Bettendorf

Across the Mississippi River corridor, the ground runs to sand, gravel, silt and clay on the river terraces and floodplain. Sandy blow ground sits on the older terraces, with till and loess uplands rising behind the bluff line.

That mix matters under pavers and flatwork. A thin base on sandy terrace ground shifts and pumps, and the surface above it moves with the soil.

Sandy terraces drain fast. The floodplain barely drains at all, and backed up water sits in low ground well after local rain stops.

That is why a clean, open graded layer belongs under flatwork that has to stay put.

Cold winters bring repeated freeze-thaw here, milder than northern Iowa but still enough to heave a gravel drive each spring. The frost depth figure used locally is commonly 42 inches, and the local building official sets footing depth.

River bank cutting and flood scour work on the banks, and gully erosion works the loess covered bluffs above the valley. Bedding and base choices should account for both.

Materials for Bettendorf Projects

Bedding is what holds a patio, walkway or driveway surface flat. Get it wrong and the pavers rock, the joints open, and the flatwork cracks at the corners.

The materials below cover the bedding layer, the base under it, and the drainage and finishing work around it.

Mason Sand, also called masonry sand, is the standard bedding for brick and block mortar and for paver joints. It also works as play sand and horse arena footing.

Washed Sand, or washed fill sand, beds and levels under slabs and pavers. It also acts as sand fill where a clean, free draining grade is wanted.

Limestone Screenings, also called screenings or 3/8 inch minus screenings, bed pavers and flagstone, fill joints, and top dress a compacted roadstone base.

Class A Roadstone is the base course under all of it. This is crushed limestone with the fines left in, so it binds and compacts, and it carries driveways, parking pads, shed bases and farm lanes.

Clean Rock, or clean stone, is washed and open graded. Water moves straight through it, which suits subdrains, drainage tile backfill, pipe bedding and backfill behind retaining walls where the ground stays wet.

Around the edges, Top Soil, which Iowa yards call screened black dirt, repairs lawns and preps beds after the flatwork is finished.

Delivery to Bettendorf and the Surrounding Area

Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load. Choose your quantity, pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the material on site.

Bettendorf sits in Scott County, and delivery reaches the surrounding area, including Davenport, Eldridge, Le Claire, Walcott and Blue Grass. Order online whenever your site is ready.

Order Bedding, Base and Stone for Bettendorf

Start with the calculator on the product page, settle your quantity, and order online when your site is ready. Iowa Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Bettendorf and Scott County by the ton or the yard.