Gravel, Stone and Soil for Orange County, VT

Vermont Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Orange County, VT. If you are building a drive, a pad or a shed base, start with staymat, the yard word here for a dense graded crushed base.

Staymat runs from about 3/4 inch or 1 inch down to dust, so it locks up tight under a roller. Sizing a load is easy: each product page carries a calculator, and you order by the ton or by the yard.

Delivery across Orange County

You order online, pick your quantity, and choose a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load on site as one pile.

Delivery covers Randolph, Williamstown, Bradford, Newbury, Corinth, Tunbridge, Brookfield, Chelsea, Topsham, Strafford, Washington, Fairlee, Vershire and West Fairlee. Have the drop spot clear and reachable by a truck before the date you pick.

Materials delivered in Orange County

Order by project. A driveway, a patio and a drain each want a different material, and the local names below are what to ask for.

Staymat carries the most weight for base work. Base and subbase in Vermont is specified through VTrans Standard Specifications for Construction Section 301, 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).

That is how material is described and ordered in this state.

Town road standards call for a crushed gravel surface course, specified under 704.05, laid over a bank run subbase. Crushed gravel is the top course, bank run is the screened fill below it.

Ground conditions across Orange County

Orange County spans more than one ground region, so the soil under a job changes with the town. In the Vermont Piedmont (Randolph, Williamstown, Corinth, Tunbridge) you are on rolling upland of stony glacial till over schist, phyllite and Barre granite, with ledge near the surface on the hilltops.

In the Connecticut River Valley (Bradford, Newbury, Fairlee, Wells River) the ground is sand, silt and gravel river terraces and floodplain, with glacial lake silt and clay in the flats.

In the Piedmont, dense hardpan till perches water and hillside seeps keep a cut bank wet all season. That wet ground is why an under-built base fails: the subbase has to carry the load before the surface goes on.

In the Valley, sandy terraces drain fast while the silt and clay flats hold water. Tributaries coming off the hills drop onto the valley floor quickly after heavy rain, so ditch and culvert work matters here.

Frost is a factor across the county. Frost depth is set by the town, so confirm footing depth with the town office, and expect a deeper figure on the hills than in the river valleys.

Choosing the right material

Caledonia County sits in the Northeast Kingdom, on stony glacial till over granite and schist, with peat and wet organic ground in the basins. That organic ground is the difference: it is softer and wetter than the till and terrace ground here, so it asks for more fill and a heavier drainage layer.

Windsor County spans the Connecticut River Valley, the Vermont Piedmont and the Green Mountains. Addison County spans the Champlain Valley and the Green Mountains.

Where those counties sit on the same ground regions as Orange County, the base and drainage choice is the same.

Order staymat and base material in Orange County

Staymat is the base material for drives, pads and shed floors across Orange County, and it is what the yards here call a dense graded crushed base. Size your load on the product page, pick your quantity, and choose a delivery date at checkout.

Vermont Rock Supply delivers staymat, crushed stone, sand and soil across the county, and you can place your order online today.