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    Chapel Hill Stone Delivery

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    #8 washed gravel: small angular crushed stone perfect for drainage, French drains, and concrete bases.
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    My experience with Mulch Mound was great and super easy. I ordered two yards of screened topsoil and was able to get it delivered within 2 days. They came in my requested time frame (afternoon) and dropped it off where I asked on my driveway. The topsoil was exactly what was a...

    Use two to three inches of stone for decorative beds and pathways, and four to six inches total for driveways and parking areas built over clay. One ton of crushed stone covers about 80 square feet at three inches deep.
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    A yard is approximately 27 cubic feet. As a general guideline, one yard of material can cover an area of about 100-160 square feet at a 2-3 inch depth.

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    Chapel Hill Stone Delivery

    Chapel Hill Stone Delivery

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    About this stone

    #8 washed gravel: small angular crushed stone perfect for drainage, French drains, and concrete bases.
    Emily Vertosick
    Emily Vertosick
    Google Review

    My experience with Mulch Mound was great and super easy. I ordered two yards of screened topsoil and was able to get it delivered within 2 days. They came in my requested time frame (afternoon) and dropped it off where I asked on my driveway. The topsoil was exactly what was a...

    Use two to three inches of stone for decorative beds and pathways, and four to six inches total for driveways and parking areas built over clay. One ton of crushed stone covers about 80 square feet at three inches deep.
    Use our free stone calculator

    A yard is approximately 27 cubic feet. As a general guideline, one yard of material can cover an area of about 100-160 square feet at a 2-3 inch depth.

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    Emily Vertosick
    Emily Vertosick

    My experience with Mulch Mound was great and super easy. I ordered two yards of screened topsoil and was able to get it delivered within 2 days. Th...

    Read full review

    My experience with Mulch Mound was great and super easy. I ordered two yards of screened topsoil and was able to get it delivered within 2 days. They came in my requested time frame (afternoon) and dropped it off where I asked on my driveway. The topsoil was exactly what was advertised, clean with no rocks or other debris. The price was reasonable. I plan to use them again in a couple weeks to order compost for my garden beds.

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    Measure length by width in feet to get square footage, then multiply by depth in feet and divide by 27 for cubic yards. Multiply cubic yards by roughly 1.4 to convert to tons for most crushed stone. Driveway and pad projects on Chapel Hill clay should include an extra ten percent for the base settling into soft spots.

    Complete Your Outdoor Stone Project

    Add woven geotextile fabric under any stone laid over clay, and finish with steel or paver edging to keep gravel from spreading into lawn and beds during heavy rain.

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    Mulch Mound Pro Tip

    Fabric is not optional on Chapel Hill clay. Woven geotextile under a driveway or pad keeps the stone from being pumped down into the subgrade every time a car rolls over wet ground, and it roughly doubles the life of the installation. Buy the heavier woven product for traffic areas rather than the thin nonwoven landscape cloth sold for flower beds, because the two perform very differently under load.

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    Grade before you gravel. Water always wins in a 47 inch rainfall climate, so shape the surface with a slight crown or a consistent one to two percent fall toward a swale before any stone goes down. Gravel spread on a flat or dished area will hold standing water, soften the clay underneath, and develop potholes by the second winter no matter how good the stone was.

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    Stone around your foundation is a smart move in Chapel Hill because it drains fast, discourages termite cover, and does not need annual replacement. Run a two foot band of washed 57 stone over fabric where downspouts discharge, and pitch the grade away from the house. It handles the concentrated flow from a summer thunderstorm far better than mulch, which simply floats away and clogs the drain path.

    The Unique Landscape of Chapel Hill

    With 47 inches of rain a year moving across Chapel Hill's rolling terrain, water management is the defining landscape problem, and stone is the most durable tool for solving it. Red clay sheds water fast once it crusts, so driveways rut, side yards channel, and downspout outlets carve trenches within a couple of seasons. Crushed gravel, river rock, and drainage stone give that water somewhere to slow down, spread out, and soak in instead of taking your topsoil to Morgan Creek. Stone also solves the maintenance problem in tight spots where mulch simply washes away, like narrow side yards and steep bank plantings. Unlike organic material it does not decompose in our warm humid summers, so a properly installed stone area is a one time investment. For the long gravel drives common on the rural edges of Orange County, it is really the only practical surface.

    Frequently Asked Questions

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    What size gravel is best for a Chapel Hill driveway?

    A base of crusher run compacted three to four inches thick, topped with two inches of 57 stone, is the standard that holds up here. Crusher run has fines that lock together and bind to the clay, while pure 57 stone alone will migrate and sink into soft red clay within a year or two.

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    Will gravel help my soggy backyard?

    It helps when installed as part of a French drain or dry well rather than just spread on the surface. Chapel Hill clay does not percolate well, so the stone needs a fabric lined trench and a perforated pipe with somewhere downhill to discharge. Loose gravel laid on wet clay will simply sink into it.

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    Why does my gravel keep disappearing into the ground?

    That is red clay doing what red clay does. Under load and rain, stone works its way down into soft clay unless there is a separation layer. Lay woven geotextile fabric first, then your stone, and the two stay apart. It is the single biggest difference between gravel that lasts five years and gravel that lasts twenty.

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    Does river rock work as mulch around plants?

    It works well in narrow side yards, along foundations, and on slopes where hardwood mulch washes out during Piedmont storms. Be aware that stone absorbs summer heat and radiates it, so keep it away from tender perennials and use it around tough evergreens, hollies, and ornamental grasses instead.

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    How do I keep weeds out of my stone beds?

    Install quality landscape fabric underneath and keep the stone at least three inches deep. Even then, Chapel Hill's long growing season means organic debris collects in the stone and weeds eventually sprout in it. Blowing leaves and pine straw out each fall is the maintenance that keeps stone beds clean.

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    How much does a yard of stone weigh, and how do I order?

    Most crushed stone runs about 1.4 tons per cubic yard, so stone is usually sold and delivered by the ton. Tell us your square footage and desired depth and we will convert it. A 12 by 30 foot parking pad at four inches deep needs roughly 5.5 tons.

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    Can stone fix erosion on my sloped yard?

    Yes, and it is common in Chapel Hill where lots pitch toward creeks and street swales. A dry creek bed lined with fabric and filled with mixed river rock catches concentrated runoff and slows it down. Size the channel for a heavy summer thunderstorm, not for average rainfall, because our worst erosion happens in single big events.

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