Bulk Aggregates for Patios in Glenwood, MN

Order gravel and aggregate delivery in Glenwood, MN from Minnesota Rock Supply. Buy Class 5, stone, sand and black dirt online, by the ton or the yard, and a truck tips it on your site.

Glenwood sits in Pope County on the Central Minnesota moraine and granite belt. Loam over till holds water here, so low ground stays soft through the thaw.

Ground and Conditions in Glenwood

Patios and paver walks fail from the bottom up. A base laid thin over wet till moves when the ground heaves, and the surface follows it.

Till holds water across the Central Minnesota moraine and granite belt, and the ground here is pocked with lakes, sloughs and closed basins. Low spots pond through the thaw.

Frost drives the same problem. The Minnesota Residential Code footing table sets 42 inches of frost depth for its Zone II counties, and repeat freeze-thaw works hardest on loam over till.

So the bedding under a patio or walk needs a compacted course beneath it that will not pump when it is wet. Build the layers so water has somewhere to go, and set the surface on material that binds.

Timing the work

Base, drive and paver work runs from the thaw into late autumn. Spring load limits go up on Central zone roads in March and come off in late April or early May, which shapes when a load can reach a site.

Materials for Glenwood Projects

Bedding under pavers and flatwork carries the load, so it is where these projects are won or lost. Start with the base course, then match the bedding and the joint material to it.

Class 5 is the standard Minnesota base course. It goes down as a compacted base for drives, parking pads, shed and garage floors and road base.

Class 2, sold as Class 2 granite or Class 2 limestone, is the 3/4 inch minus surfacing class in the same spec. It finishes a drive or a paver base where you want a tighter crushed aggregate with fines.

Granite fines, also called screenings or stone screenings, bed pavers, flagstone and patio stone. They come from the Crushed Stone quarried in the St.

Cloud belt.

Washed sand, also sold as concrete sand, beds and levels under slabs, pavers and brick work. Mason sand does the same job on brick and block and in paver joints.

For drainage and edges, drainage rock handles French drains, drywells and downspout runs at a 1 1/2 inch clear size, and 3/4 clear rock works in drainage beds and trench backfill. Clear rock is the Minnesota way of saying washed with the fines taken out.

Under a slab, use clean washed rock as the gas-permeable layer the passive radon system needs in new Minnesota homes. Around the finished work, Minnesota River Rock beds and borders, and Top Soil, which Minnesota calls black dirt, rebuilds the lawn or bed after grading.

Delivery to Glenwood and the Surrounding Area

Order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator to size the load against your project.

A dump truck tips the material in one pile on site, so pick a spot that can take the whole load. Minnesota Rock Supply delivers across Pope County, including Starbuck, Lowry, Cyrus, Villard and Farwell.

Order Your Glenwood Aggregate Delivery

Size the load on the product page, pick your material by its Minnesota name, and choose a delivery date at checkout. Minnesota Rock Supply delivers Class 5, stone, sand and black dirt across Glenwood and Pope County.

Place your order online and a truck brings it to your site.