Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Irasburg, VT

Vermont Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Irasburg, VT, by the ton or by the yard. Each product page carries a calculator to size the load before you order.

Around here the yard word is staymat, the dense graded crushed base that locks up tight under a roller. It goes under drives, parking pads and shed bases across the Northeast Kingdom.

Delivery to Irasburg 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 in one pile at your site.

Irasburg sits in Orleans County, and delivery reaches the surrounding towns, including Derby, Newport, Barton, Troy and Craftsbury. Bulk loads go straight to the job address.

Materials for Irasburg Projects

Raising grade and building pads start with the fill and sub-base layers, before any surface material goes down. Get those right and the rest of the build sits on something solid.

Fill dirt, also called common fill, raises grade and backfills around a foundation. It shapes the ground away from the building before gravel goes on top.

Bank run gravel, which Vermont yards also call pit gravel or gravel borrow, is gravel screened from a pit or bank rather than crushed. It works as subbase and bulk fill under a thinner crushed top course.

Staymat is the dense graded crushed base that finishes a drive, a parking pad or a shed base. It runs from about 3/4 inch or 1 inch down to dust, so it locks up tight under a roller.

For a driveway, start with bank run gravel as subbase and cap it with staymat. For a patio, stone dust beds the pavers over a compacted base.

For a drain, 3/4 inch crushed stone fills the trench, with drain rock for curtain drains and dry wells.

Ground and Conditions in Irasburg

Across the Northeast Kingdom the uplands are stony glacial till over granite and schist, with ledge close to the surface on the hills. Basins hold peat and wet organic ground.

That dense hardpan till holds water instead of letting it through. A base built too thin over it pumps and rutts once the thaw starts.

Snowpack lasts, and the long thaw runs over ground that is still frozen underneath. Water has nowhere to go, so it sheets across the surface and cuts at weak spots.

Spring runoff scours ditches and culverts on long gravel road grades, and stream banks cut after heavy rain or a fast thaw. Stone fill, the Vermont word for riprap, lines steep ditches and armours culvert inlets and outlets.

This is the shortest build window in Vermont. Mud season runs late, the ground freezes early, and much of the road network is unpaved.

Frost goes deep and comes out late in the coldest corner of the state. Footing depth is set by the town, so confirm it with the Irasburg town office.

Order Staymat and Base Material in Irasburg

Staymat is the base most Irasburg drives, pads and shed floors are built on, and it is the material to start with when you raise grade. Order online by the ton or by the yard and pick your delivery date at checkout.