Stone Screenings for Patios in Magnolia, MS

Mississippi Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Magnolia, MS for two kinds of buyers: contractors working a schedule and homeowners finishing one project. Both usually start with the same question about the base under the work.

For a driveway, a parking pad or a building pad, that base is 610 limestone. In this part of the state the soils run silty on the ridges and sandy on the slopes, so a base has to hold up on ground that changes under it.

Ground and Conditions in Magnolia

Across the Southwest Loess Hills and Gravel Country, sandy surface soil sits over tighter clay at depth. Heavy rain moves fast on the surface and then perches, because the water has nowhere to go once it reaches the clay.

That is what a thin base shows you. The surface material shifts, the edges break down, and the flatwork above it starts to move.

The fix is a base that is thick enough and graded to shed water rather than hold it. A crowned drive with a shoulder and a place for the water to run gives the rain somewhere to go.

Cleared slopes in this belt also gully and rill, and sand and gravel wash out of drives built on grade. On the flatwork side, that means the bedding layer under a patio or walkway has to stay put while water moves past it.

Work runs nearly year round here. Wet ground after a run of winter rain is the practical limit, and hard freezes are brief and shallow enough that they do not drive base depth.

Materials for Magnolia Projects

Under pavers, flagstone and flatwork, the bedding layer is the material that decides how the finished surface sits. Stone Screenings are the fine material for that job: paver and flagstone bedding, joint filling, and topping a compacted base.

Below the bedding, the base itself is 610 Limestone. Size No.

Where the ground is soft and you want a graded surface that packs rather than a clean stone, Clay Gravel is the long-standing Mississippi drive and farm-road material. It is pit-run gravel with enough clay and fines in it to bind.

For drainage beside or under the work, #57 Limestone is clean, free-draining stone for French drains, foundation drains and drive surfacing. Drain Rock does the same job on ground that holds water, including downspout runs and drywells.

Where a tight bedding or joint is wanted, #89 Crushed Stone is small washed stone for that purpose. Masonry Sand beds brick and block work and fills paver joints.

Delivery to Magnolia and the Surrounding Area

You order online, and quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator, so you can size the load before you check out.

Pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. Magnolia sits in Pike County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including McComb, Summit and Osyka.

Order Bedding and Base Material for Magnolia

Start with the calculator on the product page and settle your quantity, then choose a delivery date at checkout. Mississippi Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Pike County, and a dump truck tips your load on site.

Place your order online when your numbers are ready.