Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Kingston, ID
Idaho Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Kingston, ID, and the loads that start a site are fill dirt and road mix. Both go down before anything finished shows on top.
Each product page has a calculator so you can size the load before you order.
Delivery to Kingston and the Surrounding Area
You order online, pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and choose a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load on your site in one pile.
Kingston sits in Shoshone County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Kellogg, Pinehurst, Wallace, Smelterville and Mullan. Give the truck room to reach the spot where the pile should land.
Materials for Kingston Projects
Raising grade and building pads come first on most ground here, and that work starts with fill. Fill Dirt brings a low spot up and backfills against a foundation.
Pit run does the same job under a base course.
Pit Run is unprocessed gravel straight from the pit, rock and fines at whatever sizes the pit gives. It works as sub base, as structural fill and for filling holes and raising grade.
It is not a finished surface.
For a driveway, parking pad, shop floor or shed slab, the base course is 3/4 Road Mix. Yards here also call it 3/4 minus, road base or crushed base, and it is crushed base with the fines left in so it locks up under a roller.
On public works plans in Idaho, that same material is written as crushed aggregate and called out by Type I or Type II rather than by a class number. It is the same base, specified a different way.
For a patio, the bedding under pavers is Washed Sand. Stone Screenings bed pavers and flagstone and fill the joints between them.
For a drain, Drain Rock is the clean angular rock for french drains, foundation drains, drywells, septic drainfields and downspout runs. It comes in 3/4 inch, 1 1/2 inch and 2 inch sizes.
Ground and Conditions in Kingston
Across the Panhandle forest and glacial ground, the soil is volcanic ash over windblown loess, with a dense fragipan below it and glacial till on the ridges. That fragipan sits close to watertight.
Winter rain and snowmelt collect above it and sit near the surface through the wet months. A base laid on ground that has not drained will move, so the fill and sub-base have to be right before road mix goes down.
Wet ground from late fall through spring limits work here more than cold does. The dependable window runs from midsummer into early fall, once the ground has drained.
Frost depth is set by the local building official, and wet Pacific winters that freeze and thaw again and again heave gravel drives and break up unpaved surfaces each spring.
Questions About Ordering in Kingston
What is the best base under pavers in Kingston?
Road mix, sold here as 3/4 Road Mix, is the compacted base course under a paver patio, and it is the same material yards call 3/4 minus or crushed base. Above it, Washed Sand beds the pavers and Stone Screenings fill the joints.
On this ground, the fill and sub-base below the road mix have to be placed first, because the fragipan holds water near the surface through the wet months.
Do you supply contractors working in Kingston?
Yes. Idaho Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregate in Kingston and across Shoshone County, including Kellogg, Pinehurst, Wallace, Smelterville and Mullan.
Contractors order the same way a homeowner does: online, by the ton or by the yard, with a delivery date picked at checkout. Fill dirt, pit run, road mix, drain rock, sand and soil are all available in bulk.
Order Road Mix and Fill for Your Kingston Site
Road mix is the base that carries a drive, a pad or a shop floor in Kingston, and fill dirt and pit run go underneath it to bring the grade up. Size the load on the product page, order online, and Idaho Rock Supply delivers it to your site.