Bulk Aggregates for Patios in Melrose, MN

If you are building a patio, you are really ordering two materials: the bedding under the pavers and the Class 5 base below it. Minnesota Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Melrose, MN, so both arrive by the ton or the yard and get tipped on site.

This part of Stearns County sits on moraine and granite belt ground, so what you put under flatwork matters as much as what you set on top.

Ground and Conditions in Melrose

Across the Central Minnesota moraine and granite belt, a patio fails at the edges first. Till holds water, and the ground here is pocked with lakes, sloughs and closed basins, so low spots pond through the thaw.

Set pavers on too thin a base over that wet subgrade and the surface rocks, dips and opens at the joints. Deep frost and repeated freeze-thaw finish the job, with heaving worst on loam and clay loam over till.

An open, clean stone under the bedding lets water move instead of sitting against the slab. Edges and low corners are where you see the problem first, and where the repair starts.

Timing counts too. Base, paver and drive work runs from the thaw into late autumn, and spring load limits go up on Central zone roads in March and come off in late April or early May.

Materials for Melrose Projects

Bedding is the layer your pavers actually sit in, so it has to be fine, angular and able to compact flat. That is the job Granite Fines do, and Minnesota granite fines come from the Crushed Stone quarried in the St.

Cloud belt.

Around the bedding, Washed Sand beds and levels slabs and pavers, and it is also sold as concrete sand. For the walkway that leads to the patio, Walkway Gravel gives a finer, walkable, compacting surface.

Everything above the bedding rests on a base. That base is Class 5, also called Class 5 gravel or Cl 5.

Class 5 keeps its fines, so it binds and compacts. It carries driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and road base, and it is the right choice under a patio or any flatwork that needs a firm platform.

Where water needs to pass instead of sit, 3/4 Clear Rock is washed with the fines taken out. It goes into drainage beds, trench backfill and construction entrances, and it is the clear rock answer as against Class 5, which keeps them.

Delivery to Melrose and the Surrounding Area

Every product page has a calculator, and that is where a patio order starts. You choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, then pick a delivery date at checkout.

Sizing a patio load is the part buyers get wrong, because the bedding and the base are measured separately. The calculator exists so you can put your own figures in rather than guessing from a pile you saw once.

Melrose sits in Stearns County, and we deliver to sites across the city and the surrounding area, including St. Cloud, Sartell, Waite Park, St.

Joseph and Sauk Centre. A dump truck tips your material on site.

Questions About Gravel in Melrose

What gravel is best for a driveway in Melrose?

Class 5 is the standard base for a driveway here, and it is the same material called Class 5 gravel or Cl 5.

For the surface layer, Class 2 is the 3/4 inch crushed surfacing class, sold as Class 2 granite or as buff or red limestone.

How much material will my project need?

Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator so you can size the load from your own project figures. Base and bedding are separate layers, so work them out one at a time.

Put your numbers into the calculator, choose the quantity, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Order Your Melrose Patio Material

Start with the calculator on the product page for the material you need, size the base and the bedding, and choose a quantity by the ton or the yard. Minnesota Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregates across Melrose and Stearns County, and a dump truck tips your load on site.

Place your order online when you are ready.