3/8 Chip for Patios in Lewisville, ID
Idaho Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Lewisville, ID to two kinds of buyers: contractors building pads and flatwork, and homeowners surfacing a drive or setting a patio. Both orders start in the same place, with road mix.
This is the Upper Snake River Plain, where young basalt sits close under thin soil. What you put over that ground decides how the surface above it holds up.
Ground and Conditions in Lewisville
Across the Upper Snake River Plain and the eastern farm valleys, thin soil over shallow basalt leaves water nowhere to go. On flatwork, that shows up as a paver or slab that rocks, dips or stands proud within a season.
The cause is usually the bedding layer, not the pavers. When the base under a patio or walkway is soft, wet or uneven, the bedding sand follows it and the surface moves with it.
Wind-laid silt and dune sand north of the river behave differently again. Silt holds water and pumps when it is wet, so bedding over it needs a base that is genuinely locked up before anything goes on top.
Canal seepage and heavy spring irrigation lift the water table under low farmed ground. Where that happens, drainage under the flatwork matters as much as the base itself.
The working season is short here. Frozen ground stops compaction from late fall to early spring, and the dependable base and paver window runs from late spring into early autumn.
Cold is the other factor. At Idaho Falls and through the upper Snake River towns, about 30 inches is the frost depth figure commonly used, and the local building official sets footing depth.
Materials for Lewisville Projects
Bedding is where flatwork is won or lost, and road mix is the layer that makes bedding work. Idaho yards call crushed base with the fines left in road mix, or 3/4 road mix, because those fines let it lock up under a roller.
Contractors here also order it as 3/4 minus, and on public works plans it appears as crushed aggregate, called out by type rather than by a class number. All three names mean the same load of 3/4 Road Mix.
Under pavers, road mix is the compacted base. On top of it, Washed Sand is the bedding layer.
Stone Screenings, also called crusher fines or chat, bed flagstone and fill paver joints. They also surface pathways where a tight, compacted finish is wanted.
Above the bedding, 3/8 Chip tops a compacted base on pathways and leveling courses. Chips are angular, so unlike Natural Pea Gravel they knit together and stay where they are put.
Where a base needs to come up before road mix goes down, Fill Dirt handles backfill and raising grade. It brings a low spot up so a base course has something to sit on.
Where pavers meet lawn or a bed, Top Soil finishes the grade over thin desert soil, basalt ground and stony mountain ground. It is sold screened and clean.
Delivery to Lewisville and the Surrounding Area
You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load on your site.
Each product page has a calculator, which is the fastest way to settle a quantity before you order. Decide between tons and yards first, since that choice shapes how the load is written.
Bulk delivery covers Lewisville and the rest of Jefferson County, including Rigby, Menan, Ririe, Roberts and Hamer. A truck reaches the site and tips the material in one pile.
Order Road Mix and Bedding Material for Your Lewisville Project
Settle your quantity first using the calculator on any product page, then choose tons or yards and a delivery date at checkout. Road mix, washed sand, screenings and topsoil all reach your site in Lewisville by dump truck.
Order online when your numbers are ready.