Stone Screenings for Patios in Isola, MS

Order gravel and aggregate delivery in Isola, MS online, by the ton or by the yard, and Mississippi Rock Supply tips it on your site. Start with 610 limestone for anything that has to carry weight.

For patios and flatwork, the bedding under the slab matters as much as the slab. That is where screenings and sand come in.

Ground and Conditions in Isola

Across the Delta, the ground is deep alluvial silt, silt loam and heavy clay. Sand and gravel sit tens of feet down, not at the surface.

Backswamp ground runs gray to black clay that swells wet and cracks dry.

That clay moves. A thin base over it shows the failure fast: pavers rock, joints open, a slab edge drops.

The fix is a base built up and crowned, not dug deeper.

Flat ground with almost no fall is the other half of it. Tight clay subsoil takes water slowly, so water stands rather than runs off.

A drive or patio pad needs a surface that sheds, and a drainage layer under it that gives standing water somewhere to go.

Erosion here comes as sheet flow across flat fields and floodwater cutting at drive edges and culvert outlets. Bank caving on rivers and bayous is the same water doing the same work.

Work runs nearly year round. Saturated ground in late winter and early spring is the real limit, not frozen ground.

Freezes are short and shallow. Frost heave is not what breaks a drive here.

The ground moving as saturated clay dries and wets again is.

Materials for Isola Projects

Bedding is the whole game under pavers and flatwork. Get it wrong and the surface above it fails, no matter how well the pavers are laid.

Start with Stone Screenings. Screenings bed pavers and flagstone, fill joints, and top a compacted base.

They pack tight and hold a paver true.

Under the screenings, the base course does the structural work. 610 Limestone, also called 610 or crushed limestone base, is what Mississippi yards sell as compacting base.

It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads, and patio sub-base.

Where the native ground is soft and a graded surface is wanted, Clay Gravel is the long-standing Mississippi choice. Pit-run gravel carries enough clay and fines to bind and pack.

Say gravel, not crushed stone, because nearly all Mississippi pit gravel is chert.

Clean stone handles water. #57 Limestone goes in French drains, foundation drains, and concrete.

#8 Crushed Stone covers fine drainage, pipe bedding and paver joints. Drain Rock suits French drains, drywells and downspout runs on ground that holds water.

For the sand layer, Masonry Sand beds brick, block and paver joints. Washed Sand levels and beds under slabs and pavers where a clean sand is wanted.

Delivery to Isola and the Surrounding Area

Order online. Choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, then pick a delivery date at checkout.

Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile on your site. Isola sits in Humphreys County, and delivery covers the county, including Belzoni, Silver City and Louise.

Order Bedding and Base Material for Your Isola Project

Size the load on the product page calculator, then order online by the ton or by the yard. Mississippi Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Humphreys County.

Get your quantity right and place the order.