Gravel and Aggregate Delivery in Cambridge, ID
Idaho Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Cambridge, ID to the job you are planning, whether that is a driveway, a parking pad or a drainage run. If the work needs a base, it starts with road mix.
Road mix is crushed base with the fines left in, so it locks up under a roller. Contractors in this part of Idaho also call it 3/4 road mix or 3/4 minus, and it is the same load either way.
Materials for Cambridge Projects
Base and driveway surfacing carry the heavy work here. Road mix is the base course under driveways, parking pads, shop floors and shed slabs, and it is what a yard in Idaho means when it says crushed base.
On public works plans in Idaho, that same base is called out as crushed aggregate by type rather than by a class number. A homeowner asking for road mix and an inspector reading Type II crushed aggregate are looking at one material.
Pit run is unprocessed gravel straight from the pit, rock and fines mixed at whatever sizes the pit gives. Idaho uses it as sub base under road mix, as structural fill and for filling holes and raising grade.
It is not a finished surface.
For the drive itself, driveway gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops a compacted road mix base on a long rural approach. Walkway gravel gives garden paths and walkways a finer, walkable surface than a drive takes.
Washed stone handles water. Drain rock, also called washed rock or 3/4 clean, is clean angular rock for french drains, foundation drains, drywells, septic drainfields and downspout runs, and Idaho yards sell it in 3/4 inch, 1 1/2 inch and 2 inch sizes.
Where an angular rock that stays put is wanted, 3/4 inch crushed rock covers drive surfacing, pipe bedding and drainage. Idaho says crushed rock far more often than crushed stone, and 3/4 chip or 3/4 clean chips mean the same thing.
Sand and soil finish the job. Washed concrete sand beds pavers and slabs and backs concrete work.
Mason sand is the finer, even sand for brick and block work and paver joints.
Screened topsoil goes over thin desert soil, basalt ground and stony mountain ground for lawns and bed prep.
Garden soil fills raised beds and planting areas where the native ground is too thin, too stony or too alkaline to plant into, and fill dirt brings a low spot up before a base course goes on top.
Decorative work is round rock country. Snake River rock, which Idaho yards list as river rock or round rock, fills decorative beds, borders, dry creek beds and water features.
Cobble, sold as large river rock in the 2 inch to 10 inch range, takes dry creek beds, drainage swales and heavier borders.
Ground and Conditions in Cambridge
Water drives the material choice on the Treasure Valley and the western Snake River Plain side of Idaho. Old lake silt, sand and clay sit over basalt, with hard caliche layers under thin desert soils on the benches and out into the Owyhee country.
Caliche layers, clay lenses and shallow basalt perch water under yards and drives. Water that gets down through the sand and silt stops at one of those layers and sits, which is why a base course has to shed water rather than trap it.
Summer cloudbursts run straight off crusted desert soil instead of soaking in. On irrigated ground, canal and ditch bank scour and furrow erosion move soil every season, and spring wind lifts dry bare soil off anything left uncovered.
The working season here is the longest in Idaho, running from an early spring thaw into late fall. Canal water running from spring to autumn governs when work along ditches and laterals can happen, so plan that work around the water schedule.
Winter brings many shallow freeze and thaw cycles on cold nights and mild days rather than one deep freeze. Frost depth is about 24 inches in Boise and the surrounding Treasure Valley cities, and the local building official sets footing depth.
Delivery to Cambridge and the Surrounding Area
Order online and a dump truck tips your load on site in one pile. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout.
Have the drop spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives. Bulk material comes off the back of the truck in a single pile, so the spot you choose is where the pile stays.
Cambridge sits in Washington County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Weiser and Midvale. Pick your delivery date at checkout and the truck brings the load to the address you give.
Questions from Cambridge Buyers
Do you supply contractors working in Cambridge?
Yes. Idaho Rock Supply supplies bulk material to contractors and homeowners working in Cambridge and across Washington County.
Base, washed stone, sand, soil and decorative rock are all ordered online by the ton or by the yard, and the load is tipped on site. Public works work is specified in Idaho as crushed aggregate by type, and road mix is the same base material under its local name.
Do you deliver road mix to Cambridge, ID?
Yes. Road mix, also called 3/4 road mix, road base or 3/4 minus, is delivered in bulk to Cambridge and the surrounding area.
Choose your quantity by the ton or by the yard, pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load in one pile at the address you give.
Order Base, Stone and Soil for Your Cambridge Job
Driveways, parking pads, shop floors, shed slabs, drainage runs, patios, paths and planting beds all take bulk material, and Idaho Rock Supply delivers it to Cambridge and the surrounding area. Order road mix, washed stone, sand or soil online by the ton or by the yard and set your delivery date at checkout.