Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Arco, ID
Idaho Rock Supply sells gravel and aggregate delivery in Arco, ID by the ton or the yard. Road mix is the base this part of Idaho builds on, and it is what a driveway, a shop pad or a shed slab starts from.
Arco sits in Butte County, on ground that is thin over young basalt across much of the Upper Snake River Plain. That changes what you order before it changes anything else.
Delivery to Arco 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.
Pick your delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material on your site in one pile. That is the whole of it, so plan where the pile should sit before the truck arrives.
Idaho Rock Supply delivers bulk material across Arco and Butte County, including Moore and Howe. If your site is outside town, the same order works the same way.
Materials for Arco Projects
Much of the ground here needs fill before it needs a surface. A low spot, a pad that has to come up to grade, or a building site on uneven basalt ground starts with material placed underneath.
Fill Dirt is structural fill for backfill, raising grade and bringing a low spot up before a base course goes on top. Pit Run is unprocessed gravel straight from the pit, rock and fines mixed at whatever sizes the pit gives.
It works as sub base under road mix, as structural fill and for filling holes and raising grade. It is not a finished surface.
Once grade is set, the base course goes down. 3/4 Road Mix is crushed base with the fines left in, so it locks up under a roller.
A contractor ordering 3/4 minus is asking for the same load.
Drain Rock is clean angular rock for french drains, foundation drains, drywells, septic drainfields and downspout runs. It is sold in 3/4 inch, 1 1/2 inch and 2 inch sizes.
For a patio, 3/8 Chip is angular, so it knits together and stays where it is put. 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is round and uncrushed, which is why it rolls underfoot.
Where a lawn or a bed has to go in over thin desert soil, basalt ground or stony mountain ground, Top Soil is screened and clean. Garden Soil is for raised beds and planting areas where the native ground is too thin, too stony or too alkaline to plant into.
Ground and Conditions in Arco
Across the Upper Snake River Plain and the eastern farm valleys, young basalt flows sit close to the surface with thin soil over them. Water has nowhere to go on ground like that.
That is the reason an under-built base shows itself here. A drive or a footing on thin ground over rock moves when the ground under it holds water.
Spring runoff off the Caribou and Centennial ranges, wind moving dune sand and dry field soil, and canal bank and culvert washouts during snowmelt all work on grade and edges. RipRap armors creek banks, culvert outlets, canal banks, pond edges and cut slopes against that runoff.
The working season is short. Frozen ground stops compaction from late fall to early spring, and the dependable base and paver window runs from late spring into early autumn.
Winters here are the coldest sustained in settled Idaho, with long hard freezes at 4,500 feet and above and a sharp heaving thaw in spring. About 30 inches is the frost depth figure commonly used at Idaho Falls and through the upper Snake River towns.
The local building official sets footing depth.
Questions About Ordering in Arco
What is the best base under pavers in Arco?
Road mix, sold here as 3/4 Road Mix, is the compacted base under pavers. It is crushed base with the fines left in, so it locks up under a roller.
Bed the pavers themselves in Stone Screenings or Washed Sand, and set the base on ground that has been brought up to grade first.
Do you supply contractors working in Arco?
Yes. Idaho Rock Supply sells bulk gravel, crushed rock, sand, topsoil and aggregates to contractors and homeowners in Arco and across Butte County.
You order online by the ton or the yard, pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load on site.
Order Road Mix and Base Material in Arco
Road mix is the base course under driveways, parking pads, shop floors and shed slabs in this part of Idaho, and it is where most ground here starts. Idaho Rock Supply delivers it to Arco and Butte County by the ton or the yard.
Choose your material and quantity online, then pick a delivery date at checkout.