3/8 Inch Crushed Stone for Patios in Felton, DE

If you are setting a patio, a walkway or a shed pad, you need gravel and aggregate delivery in Felton, DE that starts with the right base. Delaware Rock Supply sells GABC.

This is flat, sandy ground with a high water table, so what you put under flatwork matters as much as what you see on top.

Order by the ton or by the yard, sized to the job.

Ground and Conditions in Felton

Across the Central Coastal Plain and the Delaware Bay shore, the ground runs deep sand and silt, with silt-capped loams on the farmland uplands. Flat land and a high water table leave very little fall to the bay, and much of Kent County drains through tax ditches.

Standing water after heavy rain is the usual problem rather than fast runoff.

Base failures here show up as ruts, pumping and a soft spot that keeps coming back. The reason is usually a base laid too thin over sand that never got the water away from it.

The fix is a compacting base course with enough thickness to bridge soft ground, plus a clean stone layer where water has to move. Saturated ground in late winter and after summer downpours is the usual hold-up on a job, not frost.

Kent County sets footings shallower than New Castle does, and the frost depth figure for Kent County is 24 inches.

Materials for Felton Projects

Bedding under pavers and flatwork is where a patio either holds its grade or starts stepping. The base goes down first, then the bedding layer, then the surface.

Get the layers right and the patio stays put.

GABC, also called graded aggregate base course or GABC Type B, is the Delaware base material for driveways, parking pads, shed bases and any layer that has to compact and hold. It binds under compaction, which is what you want beneath a patio or a slab.

Stone Dust, also called screenings or Delaware No. 10 stone, is the bedding layer.

It beds pavers, flagstone and brick, and fills the voids in a compacted base.

10 stone.

#8 Crushed Stone, also called Delaware No. 8 stone, works as concrete aggregate, paver joints and fine drainage, and as a topping over a compacted base.

For tighter joints, #89 Crushed Stone is a small washed stone for tight bedding and paver joints.

Where water has to leave the patio edge, #57 Stone is the drainage stone, also called Delaware No. 57 stone.

3/8" Crushed Stone handles fine drainage, pipe bedding and topping where a smaller stone is wanted.

Sand and soil finish the job. Concrete Sand beds pavers and slabs, levels, and mixes into concrete.

Mason Sand handles brick and block work, paver joints and play boxes. Top Soil brings a lawn or bed back after the work is done.

Delivery to Felton and the Surrounding Area

You order online, pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and choose a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load.

A dump truck then tips the material in one pile on site.

Felton sits in Kent County, and delivery covers Dover, Smyrna, Clayton, Harrington and Frederica as well. Bulk loads go to driveways, farm lanes and job sites across the area.

Order Your Base and Bedding Material

Start with the calculator on the product page to size your quantity, then place your order for delivery in Felton. GABC, stone dust, #57 stone and the sand and soil to finish are all available by the ton or the yard.

Delaware Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregate across Kent County.