Bulk Gravel Delivery to Townshend, VT

Vermont Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Townshend, VT to homeowners, contractors and town crews working on Windham County ground. Staymat, bank run gravel, stone dust and screened loam all arrive in bulk by the ton or by the yard.

The valley floor here runs sandy in places and heavy in others, so the material under your pavers matters as much as the pavers themselves.

Ground and Conditions in Townshend

Across the Connecticut River Valley, the ground splits between fast-draining sand and gravel terraces and silt or clay flats that hold water long after rain. Stony till covers the hills that rise straight off the valley floor.

That mix shows up under flatwork as a base that moves. Sand shifts, clay swells, and a thin layer of either lets a patio or walk rock out of level within a season or two.

Freeze-thaw heaves drives, walks and road shoulders every spring in this part of Vermont. Tributaries coming off the hills drop onto the valley floor quickly after heavy rain, and bank scour on the valley's rivers has cut channels and washed out road crossings before.

The valley towns do give one of the longer working seasons in Vermont, opening earlier in spring and holding later into fall than the hill towns a few miles west. That extra window helps when you are bedding flatwork before the ground locks up.

Frost depth is set by the town. Confirm footing depth with the Townshend town office, and expect a deeper figure on the hills than on the valley floor.

Materials for Townshend Projects

Bedding under pavers, bluestone, flagstone and slab flatwork is where the material choice decides how the finished surface holds up. Stone dust, also called screenings or crusher dust, is the New England default under flatwork.

It compacts tight, beds a paver evenly and binds into a firm surface on paths.

Stone Dust is what you order for paver bedding and for a dust-binding topping on a garden path. For finer joint fill and tight bedding, #89 Crushed Stone works where you want small washed stone instead of dust.

Under the bedding, the base course has to lock up. Staymat, the Vermont yard word for a dense graded crushed base running from about 3/4 inch or 1 inch down to dust, is what most Vermont yards call road base.

Staymat compacts hard under a roller and carries a drive, a parking pad or a shed base.

Where you want a harder, more angular base than pit gravel gives you, dense graded crushed stone is the spec name for the same idea graded from 3 inches down to fines. Vermont town road standards call for a crushed gravel surface course over a bank run subbase, and VTrans specifies it under 704.05.

Bank run gravel, also called pit gravel or gravel borrow, is gravel screened from a pit or bank rather than crushed. It goes in as subbase and bulk fill, which is why Vermont road standards ask for it under a thinner crushed top course.

Order Bank Run Gravel for that lower layer.

For drainage around a footing, a curtain drain or a downspout run, Drain Rock and 3/4" Crushed Stone both move water. 3/4 inch clean stone also gives you hardstanding through mud season.

For sand under slabs and flatwork, Washed Sand beds and levels. Mason Sand handles brick and block work, paver joints and fine levelling.

Where the ground is stony till or heavy clay, Top Soil and Garden Soil finish the beds and lawn.

Delivery to Townshend and the Surrounding Area

You order online and a dump truck tips the load on site. Quantities are ordered 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 your delivery date at checkout. Townshend sits in Windham County, and Vermont Rock Supply delivers across the county, including Brattleboro, Westminster, Bellows Falls, Putney and Wilmington.

If your site is on a hill road or a long drive, order the quantity you need and let the truck tip it where it can reach.

Order Your Load for Townshend

Size your load with the calculator on the product page, then order by the ton or the yard and pick a delivery date at checkout. Vermont Rock Supply tips bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil on site in Townshend and across Windham County.

Place your order online when you are ready.