Gravel and Aggregate Delivery in Hortonville, WI

If you are building a driveway, setting a patio base, or cutting in a drainage run, gravel and aggregate delivery in Hortonville, WI starts with the base. Around here the base is traffic bond, the crushed dense-graded material that packs hard and stays put.

Wisconsin Rock Supply delivers it across Outagamie County. The clay ground in the Fox Valley decides how deep that base needs to go.

Materials for Hortonville Projects

Most jobs here are a driveway or a pad, and the material list usually starts with the same five items. Base first, then the stone and sand that finish the work.

Base and driveway

3/4" Traffic Bond is the one to start with. It is a crushed dense-graded base that locks together under a plate compactor or a loaded truck, and Wisconsin suppliers sell it under that name for a reason.

Where the ground is soft or the fill is deep, put Breaker Run down first. It is coarse stone with the fines still in it, so it bridges over wet clay before you cap it with traffic bond.

Once the base is compacted, finish with Driveway Gravel for a clean running surface, or Walkway Gravel where you want a finer, walkable top.

Drainage stone

Clay holds water, so drainage stone matters as much as base here. Drain Rock goes in French drains, foundation drains and downspout runs. 3/4" Crushed Stone, sold in Wisconsin as clear stone, works for backfill around foundations and pipe.

Sand, soil and decorative

Mason Sand beds brick and block and sweeps into paver joints. Washed Sand levels under slabs. For lawns and beds, Top Soil comes pulverized so it spreads fine, which is what most buyers mean by black dirt.

Ground and Conditions in Hortonville

Rain and snowmelt soak in slowly through the clay-rich till under Hortonville. Water ponds on flat ground, runs to the ditches, and cannot drain down at all while the subsoil is still frozen.

That drives base depth. Wet clay over frozen ground turns soft, and a thin gravel base will heave and rut. Frost reaches at least 48 inches under pavement by late winter, so a driveway here needs enough compacted traffic bond to spread the load instead of pumping into the mud.

Timing matters just as much. Clay sites stay soft after the thaw and after heavy rain, so base and paver work goes best once the ground has drained, from late spring into fall. Class II state highways and posted county and town roads carry spring weight limits while frost comes out, which can change how a load reaches your site.

Runoff off slow-draining ground also scours ditches and stream banks. RipRap armors culvert outlets and slopes against that, and a drainage layer of clear stone keeps water moving away from a foundation instead of sitting against it.

Delivery to Hortonville and the Surrounding Area

Bulk material arrives by the truckload, tipped where you want it. Order online and pick your material and quantity by the ton or the yard, then tell us where the truck can back in.

Have the drop spot clear before the load lands. A driveway job usually wants the pile near the work, not on the lawn, and a soft yard in spring may not take a loaded truck. A little planning saves a lot of raking.

Wisconsin Rock Supply delivers across Hortonville and Outagamie County, including Appleton, Kaukauna, Greenville, Little Chute and Kimberly.

Order Base, Stone and Topsoil for Your Hortonville Job

Driveways, parking pads, patio and shed bases, drainage runs, lawns and beds all start with the right material. Order traffic bond, breaker run, clear stone, sand or topsoil online and we will deliver it to your site in Hortonville.