Bulk Aggregates for Patios in Dresser, WI

Planning a patio, a driveway or a drainage run in Dresser? Wisconsin Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Dresser, WI, and most of these jobs start with traffic bond. It is the crushed dense-graded base this market calls traffic bond, and it packs hard under pavers and flatwork.

You are working over glacial till and outwash here, so what sits under the base matters as much as the base itself.

Materials for Dresser Projects

Pavers and flatwork depend on a firm, level bedding layer. Get it right and the patio stays flat through the thaw. Get it wrong and you are resetting stone in two summers.

Start with Screenings under pavers and patio slabs. Screenings, which many yards call stone dust, are fine crushed stone that screeds to a flat bed and locks up tight. About an inch is the usual bedding depth over a compacted base.

That base is 3/4" Traffic Bond. It is the same thing some yards sell as road gravel. Compact it in lifts and it carries the load so the bedding layer does not pump.

For the sand side, Mason Sand works for paver joints and brick and block work. Washed Sand is the leveling and bedding sand that goes under slabs and patio edges.

Where a patio meets a downspout or a retaining wall, run Drain Rock behind it. Drain rock, also called clear drain stone, moves water instead of holding it.

Ground and Conditions in Dresser

Around Dresser, a patio that heaves at the edge or dips in the middle after one spring is a familiar sight. That is usually a base that was too thin over wet, silty ground, not a bad paver.

Dresser sits on glacial till and outwash. Sandy outwash drains fast, but dense till slows water down, so snowmelt and heavy rain pool in low spots and flat fields. While the subsoil is still frozen, that water has nowhere to go.

Frost goes at least 48 inches for footings under the Uniform Dwelling Code, and it leaves the ground later here than in southern Wisconsin. Wet, silty spots heave and soften under a thin base as the ground thaws.

A deeper base and drainage correct it. Dig out the soft material, put down a compacted traffic bond base in lifts, and add a drain rock layer where water collects.

Delivery to Dresser and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick your material by the ton or the yard. Bulk material is sold by weight, and a yard of traffic bond weighs more than a yard of mulch, so the two do not convert evenly.

Estimate quantity from the area you are covering and the depth you need. Length times width times depth gives you cubic feet, then you convert to yards or tons. The calculator on the product page does that math for you before you order.

Delivery covers Dresser and Polk County, including Amery, Osceola, St. Croix Falls, Luck and Frederic. We drop bulk loads where the truck can reach, so tell us about a soft drive or a low wire before the day of delivery.

Questions Dresser Buyers Ask

What gravel is best for a driveway in Dresser?

Traffic bond is the base for most drives here. It is a crushed dense-graded material that compacts hard and sheds water, and it is sold as 3/4" Traffic Bond. On soft or clay ground, put breaker run down first as a heavy sub-base, then cap it with traffic bond. Top the finished drive with driveway gravel if you want a finer surface.

How much material will my project need?

Measure the area and decide your depth first. A patio base is a thick layer of compacted traffic bond, with a thin layer of screenings on top. Multiply length by width by depth in feet, divide by 27 for cubic yards, then convert to tons. The product page calculator handles the conversion.

Get Your Patio Base Sized Right

Run your patio or driveway numbers through the calculator on the product page, and it will tell you the tons or yards to order. Then place the order online and we will deliver traffic bond, screenings and drain rock to your site in Dresser.