Mason Sand for Patios in Ogden, IA

If you are planning a patio, a paver walkway or a shed pad, gravel and aggregate delivery in Ogden, IA starts with the bedding under the flatwork. Iowa Rock Supply carries the Class A roadstone, sand and clean stone that job takes.

This is pothole country on the Des Moines Lobe, so the ground under your patio matters as much as the pavers on top.

Ogden sits in Boone County, where the soil is thick, compact glacial till. A base built right keeps a patio flat through the spring thaw.

Ground and Conditions in Ogden

Across the Des Moines Lobe, the youngest glacial ground in Iowa runs deep. It is compact pebbly loam till, 45 to 60 feet of it in places, with sand and gravel along old meltwater channels.

Flat ground here drains poorly on its own.

This is pothole country. The drainage network is young and inefficient, kettles and closed depressions hold water, and most ground only drains because it is tiled.

Snowmelt and spring rain sit on the surface where the ground below is still frozen.

A paver patio laid over a thin base shows the problem first at the edges. The bedding washes, the pavers rock, and the joints open.

The fix is a compacted roadstone base that carries the load and a bedding layer that holds the pavers steady on top of it.

Compaction waits for the frost to come out and for the flat ground to shed its spring water. Base and paver work runs from late spring to the fall freeze, and a wet spring shortens that window.

Long, cold winters bring repeated freeze-thaw that heaves gravel drives and field entrances as the ground lets go in spring.

Materials for Ogden Projects

Bedding is where a patio or walkway is won. Limestone screenings, also called 3/8 inch minus screenings, are the fines left after crushing.

They bed pavers and flagstone, fill joints, and top dress a compacted roadstone base.

Limestone Screenings pack tight and hold a paver flat, which is what you want under a patio or a walkway.

Class A roadstone is the standard Iowa base course, 3/4 inch crushed limestone with the fines left in so it binds and compacts. It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed bases and farm lanes, and it is what a paver patio sits on before the bedding goes down.

Class A Roadstone is the layer that carries the load. Under a soft spot or a lane that sees heavy equipment, a coarser 1 inch roadstone goes in first.

Where the patio edge meets a downspout or a low corner, water needs a place to go. Clean rock is washed and open graded, so water moves straight through it.

It suits subdrains, drainage tile backfill and pipe bedding.

Clean Rock and Washed Sand handle the wet side of a flatwork job. Washed sand beds and levels under slabs and pavers where a clean, free draining grade is wanted.

Around the rest of the yard, Top Soil repairs lawns and preps beds, and Shredded Mulch holds moisture through a dry Iowa August.

Delivery to Ogden and the Surrounding Area

You order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load before you check out.

Choose a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material on your site.

Iowa Rock Supply delivers bulk material across Boone County. Along with Ogden, that covers Boone, Madrid and Pilot Mound.

If your project is out past the city limits on a farm lane, the same bulk delivery applies.

Ordering by the ton or the yard is the main choice to make. Sand and roadstone both move that way, and the calculator is there to help you match the quantity to the job.

Order Bedding and Base Material for Your Ogden Project

Work out your quantity with the calculator on the product page, then place your order online and pick a delivery date. Iowa Rock Supply brings Class A roadstone, limestone screenings and sand to sites across Ogden and Boone County.

Order the material your patio, walkway or driveway needs and get the load on the ground.