3/8 Inch Crushed Stone for Patios in Placitas, NM

Order gravel and aggregate delivery in Placitas, NM and New Mexico Rock Supply tips it on your lot. Buy base course, sand, stone and soil online by the ton or by the yard.

Every product page carries a calculator and a delivery date you pick at checkout.

Placitas sits on the Middle Rio Grande valley and rift side of Sandoval County, where caliche hardens under a thin sandy surface. That ground shapes what you put under a patio and what you lay on top of it.

Ground and Conditions in Placitas

Pavers and flagstone fail from the bed, not the surface. On caliche ground the subgrade will not take water and will not yield, so a thin bed shifts and the joints open.

Wet the ground and the failure shows. Monsoon cloudbursts run off the mesas and down the arroyos, and caliche under a sandy surface stops that water soaking away.

Water that cannot drain finds the lowest corner of your flatwork.

Fix the bed and the edges.

Use washed sand or stone screenings as bedding under pavers and slabs, and keep a coarse drainage layer where water collects. Crusher fines pack to a firm crust, so they suit a patio surface or a joint fill in a dry setting.

Materials for Placitas Projects

Bedding is the material that decides whether flatwork stays flat. Under pavers and flagstone, washed sand levels the surface and holds a uniform bed that stone will not rock on.

Stone screenings do the same job on pavers and flagstone bedding and joint fill. #89 crushed stone reaches tight bedding and narrow paver joints where a coarser stone will not sit.

Base course, also called Type I or Type II base course or 3/4 minus, is the compacted lift under a driveway, a parking pad or a slab. It is what New Mexico calls road base.

Order Base Course for the layer under your flatwork.

On top of a compacted base, 3/8 inch crushed stone makes a topping course, and it also serves fine drainage, pipe bedding and patio edges. Order 3/8" Crushed Stone.

For sand under slabs and flatwork, washed sand is the bedding and leveling choice. Mason Sand covers paver joints, block work, stucco and plaster coats.

Finish the edges with crusher fines or Natural Pea Gravel, and hold the surface with Drain Rock where monsoon water has to move.

Delivery to Placitas and the Surrounding Area

Order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load before you check out.

Pick your delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the load on your site in Placitas. New Mexico Rock Supply delivers across Sandoval County, including Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, Corrales, Jemez Pueblo and Santo Domingo Pueblo.

Order Base Course and Bedding Sand for Your Placitas Project

Bedding material decides how your flatwork holds up on caliche ground. Size the load with the calculator, set your quantity, and choose a delivery date at checkout.

Order base course, washed sand, screenings and stone from New Mexico Rock Supply and get it tipped on your Placitas site.