Stone Screenings for Patios in Kokomo, MS

Mississippi Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Kokomo, MS, from 610 limestone base to the fine stone that beds a patio. The ground here is sandy and gravelly on top, with tight clay a few feet down, so what you put under flatwork matters as much as what you put on it.

Order by the ton or the yard and a dump truck brings it to your site.

Ground and Conditions in Kokomo

Across the Piney Woods and Southern Pine Hills, the surface is often loose and free draining while the ground a few feet down is tight. Heavy rain soaks straight through the sand, meets the clay, and runs sideways.

Under a patio or a walkway, that sideways water is what a thin base fails to handle. The slab rocks, the joints open, and the pavers settle at different rates.

The fix is a base that starts below the loose surface and a bedding layer that stays put. That is where screenings and a compacted course earn their place.

Work here runs nearly year round. The heaviest rainfall and tropical systems late in summer are the interruption, not the cold, so a wet spell is the window to plan around rather than a season to wait out.

Materials for Kokomo Projects

Bedding is the layer that decides how a patio, walkway or slab pad looks after a few wet seasons. Stone screenings are the fine material for paver and flagstone bedding, joint filling and topping a compacted base.

Screenings are also named among the fine materials used for top dressing, which is why they finish so well over a firm course.

Under that bedding, 610 limestone is the base to build on. Size No.

Where the native ground is soft or holds water, clay gravel is the pit-run material with enough clay and fines to bind and pack. It has been the Mississippi drive and farm-road surface for a long time, and it works under a patio where a graded, compacting layer is wanted over soft ground.

Drainage around flatwork is a separate job from the base. #57 limestone is clean, free-draining stone for French drains, foundation drains and drive surfacing, and #8 crushed stone handles finer drainage, pipe bedding and paver joints.

For sand bedding and joints, masonry sand is the material for brick and block work and paver joints, sold locally as mason sand.

Delivery to Kokomo and the Surrounding Area

Order online and choose your quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you order.

Kokomo sits in Marion County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Columbia, Foxworth and Sandy Hook. Pick your delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the load in one pile at your site.

Bulk material arrives as a tipped pile, so have the spot clear before the truck reaches you. From there the material is yours to move and place.

Questions About Gravel and Stone in Kokomo

What gravel is best for a driveway in Kokomo?

It depends on what the drive sits on. 610 limestone is the compacting base for a drive that needs a firm, graded course, and clay gravel binds and packs where the ground is soft.

For the surface itself, driveway gravel tops a compacted base, and #57 limestone suits a drive where clean, free-draining stone is wanted.

How much material will my project need?

Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to help you size the load. Have your project measurements ready before you order so the quantity matches the area you are covering.

Order Base and Bedding Material for Your Kokomo Project

Start with the calculator on the product page and settle your quantity, then place the order online and pick a delivery date. Mississippi Rock Supply brings 610 limestone, screenings, sand and drainage stone to sites in Kokomo and across Marion County.