Should I order material by the ton or by the yard?

Both work, and the choice comes down to how you measured the job. Tons are a weight, yards are a volume, and the calculator on each product page lets you order in either unit. Decide the quantity first, then pick the unit you are comfortable with at checkout.

Which stone is best for drainage in Franklin County?

Drain rock is the clean angular rock for french drains, foundation drains, drywells, septic drainfields and downspout runs. It is washed, so water moves through it rather than pooling. It comes in 3/4 inch, 1 1/2 inch and 2 inch sizes.

What do I need to have ready for a bulk delivery?

Have the drop spot clear, reachable and open enough for a dump truck to tip its load. Keep vehicles, trailers and equipment out of that space. Then order online, choose your quantity by the ton or yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Gravel, Soil and Stone for Franklin County, ID

Idaho Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Franklin County, ID, and the material this ground asks for first is road mix. Road mix is crushed base with the fines left in, so it locks up under a roller and carries a drive, a parking pad or a shed slab.

Franklin County sits in the Southeast Idaho valleys and the Bear River country, where loess and silt loam cover limestone and older sedimentary rock. That ground drains slowly, which shapes what you put on top of it.

Materials delivered in Franklin County

Road mix, also called 3/4 road mix or 3/4 minus, is the base course under driveways, parking pads, shop floors and shed slabs. A contractor asking for 3/4 minus and a homeowner asking for road mix want the same load.

Order it at 3/4 Road Mix.

On public works plans in Idaho, that same base material is written as crushed aggregate, called out as Type I or Type II. State highway work follows the ITD Standard Specifications for Highway Construction, where Section 703.04 covers Aggregate for Untreated Base, Treated Base and Road Mix.

Section 703.11 covers aggregate for granular subbase. City, county and highway district work is usually written to the Idaho Standards for Public Works Construction, whose Section 802 covers crushed aggregate in Type I and Type II and Section 801 covers uncrushed aggregate.

Those are how material is described in Idaho, nothing more.

Choosing the right material

Franklin County's neighbours in Southeast Idaho, Bannock, Caribou and Bear Lake counties, share the same ground region: loess and silt loam over limestone, sandstone and older sedimentary rock, with deep valley alluvium and coarse gravel fans where the canyons open out.

The ground is the same across those county lines, so the same reasoning holds. A fines-bearing base like road mix compacts into a load-bearing course.

A clean washed stone like drain rock stays open so water passes through it.

Match the material to the job. Use Washed Sand for bedding under pavers and slabs, and Mason Sand for brick and block work and paver joints.

Use Stone Screenings for paver bedding and compacted pathway surfaces.

For a long rural approach, Driveway Gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops a compacted road mix base. For garden paths, Walkway Gravel gives a finer, walkable surface than a drive needs.

Ground conditions across Franklin County

Loess and silt loam over limestone and older sedimentary rock is the ground here, and it drains slowly. Water that gets through the silt loam meets rock and sits, so a thin base over this ground softens at the spring thaw and pumps under a truck.

The fix is a compacted base course that carries the load above the wet zone. Road mix is that course, and pit run below it fills holes and raises grade before the base goes on.

Water comes off the ranges onto the valley floors faster than silt loam can take it, and alluvial fans at the canyon mouths carry sudden flows across building ground. Low land stays wet into early summer.

Snowmelt and thunderstorm runoff cut canyon roads and alluvial fans, scour banks and gully grazed and cropped loess slopes. Rip rap armors creek banks, culvert outlets and cut slopes against that runoff.

Base and paver work runs from the spring thaw into the fall. Cold valley winters bring hard freezing and frequent swings either side of freezing, and heavy heaving on roads and drives at the thaw.

Delivery across Franklin County

Order online and a dump truck tips the load on site. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load.

Delivery covers Preston, Franklin, Clifton, Weston, Dayton and Thatcher. Pick a delivery date at checkout, and the truck tips the material in one pile where it lands.

Have the drop spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives. A bulk load needs room to tip, so keep vehicles, trailers and equipment out of the way.

Order road mix, stone and soil for Franklin County

Size your load with the calculator on each product page, then order the material by the ton or the yard and choose a delivery date at checkout. Idaho Rock Supply delivers road mix, drain rock, chips, sand, topsoil and rip rap across Franklin County, from Preston and Franklin to Clifton, Weston, Dayton and Thatcher.

Place your order online and a dump truck will tip it on site.

Road Mix, Sand and Gravel Delivery in Franklin County, ID