Rip Rap and Bulk Aggregates for Tensed, ID
Idaho Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Tensed, ID, and the ground here asks for stone that holds. Rain on snow and spring melt cut steep banks and logging roads across the Panhandle forest and glacial ground.
Coarse rock answers that.
Start with road mix for the base under a drive or pad. Then arm the slopes, swales and outlets with rip rap before the wet season returns.
Materials for Tensed Projects
Bank protection comes first on a Tensed property. Moving water takes soil, and ash-capped ground moves fast once the forest litter is stripped off it.
Size the stone to the energy of the water it faces.
Coarse stone for slopes, swales and banks
RipRap is the heavy answer. It armors creek banks, culvert outlets, canal banks, pond edges and cut slopes against snowmelt and cloudburst runoff.
Large River Rock suits dry creek beds, drainage swales and borders where you want the water to slow down and the look to stay round. It runs from 2 inch to 10 inch rock.
#4 Crushed Stone covers heavy drainage, construction entrances and trench bottoms. Idaho yards ask for it by inch size, so it is also 1 1/2 inch crushed rock.
Drainage and base stone
Drain Rock is clean, angular and washed. Use it for french drains, foundation drains, drywells, septic drainfields and downspout runs.
3/4 Road Mix is the base course under driveways, parking pads, shop floors and shed slabs. It is crushed base with the fines left in so it locks up under a roller, and a contractor ordering 3/4 minus is asking for the same load.
Pit Run is unprocessed gravel straight from the pit and is not a finished surface. Use it as sub base under road mix, as structural fill, or to raise grade and fill holes.
Delivery to Tensed and the Surrounding Area
Order online and pick a delivery date at checkout. Choose your quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load first.
A dump truck tips the load in one pile at the address you give. Tensed sits in Benewah County, and delivery reaches the surrounding area, including St.
Maries, Plummer, Fernwood and De Smet.
Have the pile spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives. Bulk stone comes off the bed in one drop, so the site needs room for it.
Ground and Conditions in Tensed
Timing matters more here than cold does. Wet ground from late fall through spring limits work, and the dependable window runs from midsummer into early fall.
Across the Panhandle forest and glacial ground, ash and loess sit over a dense fragipan that is close to watertight. Winter rain and snowmelt collect above it and stay near the surface through the wet months.
That is why drainage stone and armoring earn their place on a Tensed site. A wet winter that freezes and thaws again and again heaves gravel drives and breaks up unpaved surfaces every spring.
No frost depth was researched for Tensed. Frost depth figures belong to the places that published them, such as about 24 inches in Coeur d'Alene and Kootenai County, with deeper figures used in colder northern and higher valley towns.
Your local building official sets footing depth.
Questions About Stone in Tensed
What stone should I use for drainage in Tensed?
Start with Drain Rock for french drains, foundation drains, drywells and downspout runs. It is clean and angular, so water moves through it instead of sitting.
For heavy flow at a culvert outlet, a swale or a cut slope, step up to RipRap. For trench bottoms and construction entrances, #4 Crushed Stone works.
What should I have ready when the truck arrives?
Clear the drop spot and make sure a loaded dump truck can reach it. The truck tips the whole load in one pile, so leave room for the stone to spread where it lands.
Mark nothing for the driver and expect no spreading. Order your quantity by the ton or the yard, and pick your delivery date at checkout before the day arrives.
Order Rock and Gravel for Tensed
Idaho Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil to Tensed and the rest of Benewah County. Arm the banks and swales with rip rap, put road mix under the drive, and let drain rock handle the water.
Choose your material and quantity online, then pick your delivery date at checkout.