Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel in Windsor Heights, IA

For gravel and aggregate delivery in Windsor Heights, IA, Iowa Rock Supply stocks the materials this market names itself. Class A roadstone is the crushed limestone base course a Windsor Heights driveway or parking pad is built on.

The same trucks bring black dirt for grading and bed prep, along with sand, washed stone and decorative rock.

Materials for Windsor Heights Projects

Grading and bed prep come first on most Windsor Heights lots. Screened topsoil, sold here as black dirt, goes down where a lawn needs repair or a bed needs raising.

Order Top Soil when the grade is already close and you just need a growing surface.

Garden soil is blended richer than plain black dirt. Raised beds, vegetable plots and planting areas take Garden Soil.

Where the grade itself has to come up, Fill Dirt builds it before any roadstone or topsoil goes on.

Class A roadstone, also called 3/4 inch roadstone, is crushed limestone with the fines left in, so it binds and compacts. Use Class A Roadstone for driveways, parking pads, shed bases and farm lanes.

A new drive or a soft spot that carries heavy equipment starts with the coarser 1 Inch Roadstone laid under a finer surface course.

For water that has to move, order clean rock: washed and open graded, so it drains instead of holding. Clean Rock backfills subdrains, drainage tile and retaining walls.

Limestone screenings, the 3/8 inch minus grade, bed pavers and flagstone and fill joints.

Sand covers bedding and leveling. Washed Sand goes under slabs and pavers, while Mason Sand mixes brick and block mortar and fills paver joints.

Decorative work takes rounded stone, like River Rock for beds and dry creek beds, or Natural Pea Gravel for walkways and play areas.

Ground and Conditions in Windsor Heights

Windsor Heights sits on the Des Moines Lobe, the youngest glacial ground in Iowa. The soil is thick, compact pebbly loam till, 45 to 60 feet deep, with sand and gravel along old meltwater channels.

That till holds water, and it does not give it up quickly.

This part of the state 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 while the ground below is still frozen.

That is why drainage matters as much as base on a Windsor Heights project. A driveway or pad that traps water over compact till softens and ruts.

Clean rock and washed stone let runoff move through instead of ponding against a structure or a slab edge.

Erosion here runs less to slope wash than to ditch and tile outlet scour and washouts where runoff concentrates. Riprap armors culvert outlets, pond edges and banks against spring runoff.

The working season is short. Compaction waits for 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.

Delivery to Windsor Heights and the Surrounding Area

Bulk material arrives by dump truck and is tipped in one pile at the delivery address. Have the drop area clear and reachable before the truck arrives, with room for the pile to sit where you want to work from.

The truck does not spread or place the load.

You order online. Quantities are chosen by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to help you size the load.

Pick a delivery date at checkout.

Windsor Heights sits in Polk County, and delivery reaches the rest of the metro, including Des Moines, Ankeny, Johnston, Altoona and Grimes. Addresses across the area are served from the same online storefront.

Order Grading, Bedding and Base Material in Windsor Heights

Iowa Rock Supply delivers black dirt and garden soil for grading and bed prep, fill dirt for raising grade, Class A roadstone for drives and pads, and clean rock and sand for everything under and around them. Order online by the ton or the yard and a truck brings it to your Windsor Heights address.