Staymat, Sand and Gravel Delivery in Windham County, VT
Vermont Rock Supply brings gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Windham County, VT to jobs in Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Wilmington, Putney and the towns between. Start with the calculator on any product page to size the load, then order by the ton or the yard.
Staymat is the base most of this work sits on, and it is the word your crew already uses for it.
Ground Conditions Across Windham County
Windham County spans two kinds of ground. The Connecticut River Valley towns (Brattleboro, Westminster, Bellows Falls, Putney) sit on sand, silt and gravel river terraces and floodplain, with glacial lake silt and clay in the flats and stony till on the hills that rise straight off the valley floor.
In the Green Mountains towns (Wilmington, Londonderry, Whitingham, Jamaica), the ground is thin, stony glacial till over schist and gneiss on the slopes, with boulders and ledge close to the surface and sand and gravel outwash on the valley floors.
That difference decides how a base behaves. Sandy terraces drain fast while the silt and clay flats hold water, and tributaries coming off the hills drop onto the valley floor quickly after heavy rain.
On the mountain side, rain and snowmelt run off steep, shallow soils fast. Brooks rise quickly, and a drive on a grade sheds water down its own surface unless the crown and the ditch line are right.
Erosion follows the same split. In the valley, expect bank scour and channel cutting along the West, Saxtons, Williams, Black, Ottauquechee, White and Waits rivers, and washouts where a hillside tributary crosses a road.
Timing matters too. The valley towns give one of the longest working seasons in Vermont, opening earlier in spring and holding later into the fall than the hill towns a few miles west.
Frost is set by the town. Confirm footing depth with the town office, and expect a deeper figure on the hills than on the valley floor.
Materials Delivered in Windham County
Order by the job you are doing. A driveway, a patio and a drain each take a different material, and the local names below are how you order them.
Staymat carries the most weight in this county, and it is worth knowing what you are ordering. It is a dense graded crushed base running from about 3/4 inch or 1 inch down to dust, and it locks up tight under a roller.
Crushed gravel and dense graded crushed stone are the spec words standing behind it. Base and subbase work in Vermont 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).
For a patio or walkway, bed the flatwork on stone dust over a compacted base, and finish paths with walkway gravel where you want a finer, walkable surface than drive gravel.
For a drain, drain rock handles curtain drains, footing drains, dry wells and downspout runs, and VTrans carries the same idea as Drainage Aggregate under 704.16. #57 stone suits drainage trenches and French drains.
For ground that has to move before anything else, fill dirt raises grade and backfills, and garden soil gives raised beds a mix that screened loam on its own sits too heavy for.
Choosing the Right Material
Windham County shares its ground with Windsor County, which also spans the Connecticut River Valley, the Vermont Piedmont and the Green Mountains. Where the ground is the same, the base and drainage choices are the same, and there is no reason to treat a Windsor County job differently.
Bennington County is the one to think about. It spans the Taconics and the Valley of Vermont along with the Green Mountains, so it carries ground this county does not have.
Within Windham County, the split is simpler. On the valley terraces and floodplain, sandy ground drains fast but the silt and clay flats hold water, so the subbase has to carry the load.
Delivery Across Windham County
Order online and pick your quantity by the ton or the yard. Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load.
Vermont Rock Supply delivers across the county, including Brattleboro, Westminster, Bellows Falls, Putney, Wilmington, Vernon, Londonderry, Newfane, Whitingham, Townshend, Jamaica, Wardsboro, Grafton and Saxtons River.
Think about where the pile lands before the truck arrives. A load tipped on a soft shoulder in mud season can sink, and a pile dropped on a lawn leaves a mark.
Questions About Material in Windham County
When is the best time of year to order base material in Windham County?
It depends on which side of the county you are on. The valley towns give one of the longest working seasons in Vermont, opening earlier in spring and holding later into the fall.
What is the difference between topsoil and fill dirt?
Fill dirt is common fill. It raises grade, backfills and shapes ground away from a foundation before the gravel goes on.
What is staymat and what is it used for in Windham County?
Staymat is Vermont's yard word for a dense graded crushed base running from about 3/4 inch or 1 inch down to dust, so it locks up tight under a roller. It is the everyday term for road base, and it goes under driveways, parking pads and shed bases.
Order Staymat and Aggregate for Your Windham County Job
Staymat is the base to start from on a drive, a pad or a shed floor in Windham County, and the rest of the load follows from the job: stone dust under flatwork, drain rock in a curtain drain, screened loam over stony till.
Size the load with the calculator, order by the ton or the yard, and pick your delivery date at checkout.