Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Prole, IA

Iowa Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Prole, IA, and Class A roadstone is the base this market builds on. It is crushed limestone with the fines left in, so it binds and compacts under a drive, a parking pad or a shed base.

The ground here is old till under a loess cap, and it holds water in ways that punish a thin base. Start with the right fill and sub-base and the rest of the job gets easier.

Delivery to Prole and the Surrounding Area

You order online, pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and choose a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load on your site in one pile.

Each product page has a calculator if you need to size the load before you order. Prole sits in Warren County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Indianola, Norwalk, Carlisle, Milo and Hartford.

Materials for Prole Projects

Raising grade and building pads start with fill and sub-base. Fill dirt is clay or sandy fill used to bring low ground up to level and to backfill before a roadstone course goes down.

Get the grade where you want it first, then cap it.

For a new driveway or a lane that carries heavy equipment, start with 1 Inch Roadstone. It is the coarser roadstone, laid under a finer surface course.

Class A Roadstone is the 3/4 inch crushed limestone base that binds and compacts for drives, pads and farm lanes.

A drive that has thinned out takes Driveway Gravel as a topping over a compacted roadstone base. For a patio, Limestone Screenings bed pavers and flagstone and fill the joints.

Where water has to move, use Clean Rock. It is washed and open graded, so it drains instead of holding, and it suits subdrains, pipe bedding and backfill behind a retaining wall.

Ground and Conditions in Prole

This part of the state sits on the Southern Iowa Drift Plain, where old pre-Illinoian till lies under a windblown loess mantle. Beneath that is a thick grey clay paleosol that water will not move through.

So the ground drains at the surface and then perches. On rolling land the water runs off and leaves drives soft at the bottom of a grade, and spring rain on saturated clay is the worst of it.

This is also the state's most eroded landscape. Streams cut deep, hillslopes carry rills, and gully and stream bank erosion after heavy rain is why rock goes in on slopes and at culvert outlets.

Riprap armors those spots.

Clay soils need to dry before anything gets compacted, so a wet spring pushes base work back several weeks. Cold winters bring repeated freeze-thaw that heaves gravel drives and lanes.

Frost depth is commonly 42 inches, and the local building official sets footing depth.

Questions from Prole Buyers

What is the best base under pavers in Prole?

Start with a compacted roadstone base, then bed the pavers in limestone screenings. The screenings are the 3/8 inch minus fines that level the bedding course and fill the joints once the pavers are set.

Under that, Class A roadstone gives you a firm, bound layer that will not shift under the load.

Do you supply contractors working in Prole?

Yes. Iowa Rock Supply sells bulk gravel, crushed stone, sand, topsoil and aggregates to contractors and homeowners in Prole and across Warren County.

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout for a dump truck to tip the load on site.

Order Roadstone and Fill for Your Prole Project

Class A roadstone is the base this market builds on, and it is the right place to start whether you are raising grade, building a pad or rebuilding a drive. Order online for delivery in Prole and the surrounding Warren County area.