Should I order material by the ton or by the yard?

Both work, and the choice comes down to how you measured the job. If you worked from a weight figure, order by the ton. If you worked from a volume figure, order by the yard. Each product page has a calculator that helps you size the load either way, so you can settle the quantity before you check out.

Which stone is best for drainage in Lamoille County?

Use clean, washed stone that has no fines to hold water. 3/4 inch crushed stone suits drainage beds, curtain drains and pipe surround, and drain rock covers curtain drains, footing drains, dry wells and downspout runs. For heavy drainage and trench bottoms in soft ground, #4 crushed stone is the coarser option. Keep fines-bearing base material out of a drainage layer.

What do I need to have ready for a bulk delivery?

Have the drop spot clear and reachable by a dump truck, with room for the truck to tip the load in one pile. Know your quantity in tons or yards before checkout, and pick your delivery date there. The truck tips the material where it lands, so the spot you choose is where the pile stays.

Lamoille County Landscape Rock and Gravel, VT

If you are building a driveway, setting a patio base or cutting a drainage run, you need gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Lamoille County, VT. Vermont Rock Supply sells it in bulk and tips it on site.

Start with staymat. It is the Vermont yard word for a dense graded crushed base, and it is what most drives, parking pads and shed bases sit on.

Materials delivered in Lamoille County

Staymat is a crushed base running from about 3/4 inch or 1 inch down to dust, so it locks up tight under a roller.

In Vermont, base and subbase work is specified through VTrans Standard Specifications for Construction Section 301, Subbase, which draws its materials from Section 704: Gravel for Subbase (704.04), Crushed Gravel for Subbase (704.05) and Dense Graded Crushed Stone for Subbase (704.06).

Crushed gravel is the spec name behind the top course over a bank run subbase on town roads and long drives. Dense graded crushed stone is the spec name for a crushed stone base graded from 3 inches down to fines, used where a harder, more angular base than pit gravel is wanted.

Bank run gravel is gravel taken from a pit or bank and screened rather than crushed. Vermont road standards ask for a foot or more of it under a thinner crushed top course, which is why it suits subbase and bulk fill.

Stone dust is the New England default under flatwork: paver bedding, bluestone and flagstone, and a dust-binding topping on paths. Stone fill is the Vermont word for riprap, and VTrans grades it by type, with Type I running about 1 inch to 12 inches for steep ditches and culvert outlets.

Vermont buys washed stone by the inch far more often than by a number, so 3/4 inch crushed stone and 3/8 inch crushed stone cover drainage beds, pipe bedding and a tight topping over a compacted base.

Pea stone handles walkways, dog runs, play areas and dry wells, and drain rock covers curtain drains, footing drains and downspout runs.

For ground work, screened loam goes on lawns and beds, garden soil suits raised beds where loam alone sits too heavy, and fill dirt raises grade and backfills before the gravel goes on. Mason sand and washed sand serve brick and block work, paver joints and bedding under slabs.

Choosing the right material

Lamoille County sits in the Green Mountains, and so does the Green Mountains ground region. Chittenden County and Franklin County each span more than one zone: the Champlain Valley and the Green Mountains.

Washington County spans the Vermont Piedmont and the Green Mountains.

On the Green Mountains side the ground is the same thin, stony glacial till over schist and gneiss, so the base and drainage reasoning carries from one county to the next. The Champlain Valley ground is a different material setting, and a base choice made there does not transfer to a Green Mountains slope.

Pick by the job. A compacted drive or pad wants staymat over bank run gravel.

A drainage run wants clean washed stone, so 3/4 inch crushed stone or drain rock, never a fines-bearing base. Bedding under flatwork wants stone dust, and slope and culvert protection wants stone fill.

Ground conditions across Lamoille County

Across the Green Mountains, the ground is thin, stony glacial till over schist and gneiss on the slopes, with boulders and ledge close to the surface. Sand and gravel outwash sits on the valley floors.

That mix is why a base laid too thin shows up fast as a soft, pumping spot.

Rain and snowmelt run off steep, shallow soils quickly, so brooks rise fast and a drive on a grade sheds water down its own surface unless the crown and the ditch line are right. Steep-gradient streams scour banks, ditches and culvert outlets in heavy rain.

Stone fill at an outlet and clean stone in a drainage layer are the practical answers.

The working season is short. Mud season arrives later and lasts longer up high, and the ground freezes again sooner, so base and paver work is squeezed into late spring through early fall.

Winters are long and get colder with elevation, and frost stays in the ground well into spring, which heaves gravel drives and camp roads. Frost depth is set by the town, so confirm footing depth with the town office.

Delivery across Lamoille County

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

Pick a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the load on site in one pile.

Vermont Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregate across the county, including Stowe, Cambridge, Johnson, Hyde Park, Morrisville, Wolcott, Eden, Jeffersonville, Waterville, Belvidere Center and Eden Mills. Have the drop spot clear and reachable by a truck before the load arrives.

Order bulk aggregate for your Lamoille County job

Work out your quantity first. Each product page has a calculator, and you can order by the ton or by the yard once you know the figure.

Then choose your delivery date at checkout and Vermont Rock Supply sends a dump truck to tip the load on site.

Bulk Aggregate Delivery Across Lamoille County, VT