Riprap and Bulk Aggregates for Sandstone, WV

West Virginia Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Sandstone, WV, ordered online by the ton or the yard. Each product page carries a calculator for sizing a load.

Crusher run is the everyday base and drive material here, and on steep ground the coarse stone does the heavy work.

Sandstone sits in Summers County, where flat ground is scarce and a lot of what looks flat is fill. The loads that go out to this part of the state tend to be chosen for slope, swale and bank work before anything else.

Materials for Sandstone Projects

Coarse stone is where a Sandstone job usually starts. Banks, swales and culvert outlets take water off long slopes, and the stone that armours them is sized by how fast that water runs.

Coarse stone for slope and bank work

• Riprap, sold here as rip rap or channel stone, is bank and slope armour for creek banks, culvert outlets and toe protection under slipping fill.
• Railroad Ballast is coarse angular stone for track beds, hard standing and severe drainage.
• #4 Crushed Stone, also called 1-1/2 inch clean stone, goes on construction entrances, trench bottoms and the first lift over very soft ground.

These are clean, open materials. Water moves through them instead of pushing them out, which is what a bank or a swale needs.

Base and drainage stone

Under a drive, a pad or a shop floor, the base carries the load. Class 1 Base is the heavier base course, and it is the layer to build up when the subgrade is soft ground or old fill.

Crusher Run, also called crush and run or 3/4 inch crusher run, is the everyday base and drive material, with the fines left in so it locks up tight. Class 2 base is the finer crusher run class, for a tighter surface or a top course over Class 1.

For drainage, #57 Limestone, known locally as 57 stone or 1 inch clean stone, suits French drains, pipe bedding and construction entrances. #67 Stone is the 3/4 inch clean washed version for drainage beds and bedding where #57 runs a shade big.

#8 Limestone is a small washed chip for paver joints, fine drainage and a dressing over a compacted base.

Delivery to Sandstone and the Surrounding Area

West Virginia Rock Supply delivers across Sandstone and the rest of Summers County, including Hinton, Forest Hill, Jumping Branch, Meadow Creek and Nimitz. You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick your delivery date at checkout.

The truck tips the load in one pile on site. Have the spot reachable and clear before it arrives, because the driver does not place or spread material and takes no instruction on where it lands.

Ground and Conditions in Sandstone

Across the Allegheny Plateau coalfields, work runs most of the year and gets held up by long wet spells rather than cold. Saturated hillside fill will not compact, so it should not be built on until it drains.

Flat ground is scarce in this part of the state and much of what is flat is fill. Steep hillsides of acid, stony residuum over sandstone, shale and coal measures sit above deep colluvium in the hollows and narrow alluvial strips along the creek bottoms.

This is among the most landslide-prone ground in West Virginia, and mine regolith is the most slide-prone material in it. Unreclaimed workings, timber cutting, road cuts and sidecast fill are the usual triggers, and creek banks scour hard in a flash rise.

Rain off long, steep slopes funnels into one creek and one road, so a drive takes runoff gathered from well uphill. Culverts and ditches decide where that water ends up, and abandoned mine discharges leave some streams running acid, which is hard on metal pipe and on anything set in the water.

Frost depth is set by the county or municipal building official, so confirm the local figure before setting any footing depth. Repeated freeze-thaw through the winter shows up as drive damage during the spring thaw.

Order Bulk Aggregate Delivery in Sandstone

West Virginia Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, crusher run, riprap, sand and topsoil across Sandstone and Summers County. Size the load on the product page, choose your quantity, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Place your order online and the truck brings it to your site.