Bulk Aggregates for Patios in Prentiss, MS

Mississippi Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Prentiss, MS for two kinds of buyers: crews building flatwork and homeowners finishing a patio or walk. Both end up asking about the same thing, what goes under the pavers.

Around here that answer starts with 610 limestone.

Prentiss sits in Jefferson Davis County, in the Pine Belt, where sandy ground on the hills gives way to tight clay a few feet down. That mix decides how a base behaves.

Ground and Conditions in Prentiss

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. Water soaks in, meets the clay and runs sideways.

Under a patio or a walk, that sideways movement is what a thin base cannot handle. The sand washes out from under the pavers and the surface starts to move.

High rainfall, including tropical rain moving inland, keeps that cycle going. On graded drives it shows up as material leaving the crown and soft ground at the toe of a slope.

Cleared slopes gully, and banks scour on the feeder creeks after heavy rain. Erosion control is a real line item on lot work here, not an afterthought.

Frost is not the driver. Freezes are brief and shallow, and the footing depth the building official sets is a separate matter from how you build a patio base.

The working season runs nearly year round. Late summer rain and tropical systems are the interruption, not cold.

Materials for Prentiss Projects

Bedding under pavers and flatwork is where the material choice shows up first. Get the layer under the pavers right and the surface stays put.

610 Limestone is the local base term.

Mississippi yards sell it as compacting base, and it is what goes under a patio, a parking pad or a shed pad.

Above that base, Stone Screenings bed the pavers themselves. Screenings also fill the joints and top a compacted base.

Masonry Sand is the other bedding choice, sold locally as mason sand. Brick and block work, paver joints and play sand all draw on it.

Where water needs to move instead of sit, #57 Limestone handles French drains, foundation drains and drive surfacing. Size No.

For tight bedding and joints, #89 Crushed Stone is the smaller washed stone.

On soft ground where a graded, compacting surface is wanted, Clay Gravel is the long-standing Mississippi drive and farm-road material. It is pit-run gravel with enough clay and fines to bind and pack.

Delivery to Prentiss and the Surrounding Area

You order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout.

A dump truck tips the material on site in one pile. From there it is your project and your crew.

Delivery covers Prentiss and the rest of Jefferson Davis County, including Bassfield, Carson and Oak Vale.

Order Your Patio and Flatwork Material

Start with the quantity, since that decides the load. Each product page has a calculator, and you choose tons or yards at checkout.

Mississippi Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregate across Prentiss and Jefferson Davis County, so place your order online when your measurements are ready.