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Washed and finely screened masonry sand for mortar, paver joints, and pool bases. Consistent grain, ready to screed.
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How Much Sand Do I Need?
How Much Sand Do I Need?
One cubic yard covers about 324 square feet at a 1 inch depth, so a small patio or walkway base often needs just a partial yard, while mortar mixing for a full brick chimney repair can use up a yard fast depending on batch size. Typical install depth runs 1 to 2 inches, so figure your square footage first and adjust from there. Because this material is dense at 1.35 tons per cubic yard, even a modest order adds up in weight, which matters if you are hauling it yourself in a truck bed.
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Akron Sand Delivery
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About this sand
Washed and finely screened masonry sand for mortar, paver joints, and pool bases. Consistent grain, ready to screed.
How Much Sand Do I Need?
How Much Sand Do I Need?
One cubic yard covers about 324 square feet at a 1 inch depth, so a small patio or walkway base often needs just a partial yard, while mortar mixing for a full brick chimney repair can use up a yard fast depending on batch size. Typical install depth runs 1 to 2 inches, so figure your square footage first and adjust from there. Because this material is dense at 1.35 tons per cubic yard, even a modest order adds up in weight, which matters if you are hauling it yourself in a truck bed.
What is a Yard?
What is a Yard?
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Adjust the quantity to match your project. One cubic yard covers about 100 to 160 square feet at a 2 to 3 inch depth.
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Complete Your Outdoor Project
Sand pairs naturally with paver base gravel underneath and edging to hold the joints in place once they are swept in. For mortar work, crews usually already have cement and lime on hand, they just need the sand delivered in bulk to avoid running out mid mix. If you are leaning toward pavers instead of a poured patio, ask about chip stone too, since it is increasingly used in place of sand for joint fill.
Service area
Areas we deliver sand in Akron, Ohio
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Washed mason sand can still hold moisture when it arrives, especially during Akron's wetter spring stretch. If you are mixing mortar the same day, account for that extra water in your mix or the batch will run too wet and weak. Letting the pile sit uncovered for a day in dry weather, or spreading it out, helps it dry to a more workable consistency before you start troweling brick or block joints.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
A common mistake on paver projects is using this fine sand for joint fill and then watching it wash out after a hard rain, which happens more than people expect given Akron's clay loam runoff patterns. Polymeric sand or chip stone holds up better in joints exposed to weather. Save the washed sand for mortar mixing or as a leveling bed under pavers, not as the final joint filler if you want it to last.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
If your project needs both a paver base and mortar for a retaining wall cap, order enough sand for both uses at once instead of two separate deliveries, since it saves a trip and lets you keep leftover material on site for touch ups. Cubic yard pricing scales better in one larger order than in repeated small ones, and excess sand stores fine in a covered pile until the next phase.
Working With Sand in Akron
Akron sits on clay loam soil that drains slowly, which is exactly why sand shows up in so many hardscape plans here, it gives water somewhere to go under a patio or paver base instead of pooling against the clay. With a growing season bounded by a May 5 last frost and an October 5 first frost, most sand deliveries land between late spring and early fall when masonry and hardscape crews are actually working. Contractors around Rubber City still spec this finer sand for mortar mixing on brick repairs, since coarser material makes the mix hard to trowel. For paver joints, some crews are switching to chip stone instead, since it does not wash out or pump up between the pavers the way sand can.
Masonry vs Fill Sand
Masonry sand is washed and finely screened, the right choice for mortar work, paver joints, and sandboxes. Fill sand is coarser and less processed, better suited to leveling, bedding pipe, and filling low spots.
Bedding and Leveling
For pavers, screed a 1 inch sand bed over a compacted base rather than using sand to fix deep grade problems. A thin, even bed locks pavers in place. A thick one shifts underfoot.
Working With Moisture
Slightly damp sand spreads, screeds, and compacts far more easily than bone dry sand, which just flows back into your screed lines. Lightly wetting the pile before you work it saves real effort.