I needed 3 yards of top soil and that's what I got! Right on time and right where I asked it to be placed (Order# 2041).
About this sand
Washed and finely screened masonry sand for mortar, paver joints, and pool bases. Consistent grain, ready to screed.
I needed 3 yards of top soil and that's what I got! Right on time and right where I asked it to be placed (Order# 2041).
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How Much Sand Do I Need?
How Much Sand Do I Need?
One cubic yard of this sand covers about 324 square feet at a 1 inch depth, and typical install depth for bedding or mortar work runs 1 to 2 inches. For a paver patio bed, figure your square footage, decide whether you are going 1 or 2 inches deep, and order accordingly since going to 2 inches roughly halves that coverage number. Because it is sold by the cubic yard, round up rather than down, a short load mid project means a delayed pour or a delayed set.
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Effingham 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.
I needed 3 yards of top soil and that's what I got! Right on time and right where I asked it to be placed (Order# 2041).
How Much Sand Do I Need?
How Much Sand Do I Need?
One cubic yard of this sand covers about 324 square feet at a 1 inch depth, and typical install depth for bedding or mortar work runs 1 to 2 inches. For a paver patio bed, figure your square footage, decide whether you are going 1 or 2 inches deep, and order accordingly since going to 2 inches roughly halves that coverage number. Because it is sold by the cubic yard, round up rather than down, a short load mid project means a delayed pour or a delayed set.
What is a Yard?
What is a Yard?
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How It Works
Getting started is easy — just follow these simple steps
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Choose your quantity
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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Select a delivery date you'd like for the product to be dropped off at your home
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Sit back, wait, and let us work our magic to make sure the highest quality product is delivered to your driveway.
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Complete Your Outdoor Project
Most paver jobs around Effingham pair this sand with a base layer of crushed limestone or road base for structural support, since sand alone will settle under vehicle weight or heavy foot traffic. Pool base installs often call for a compacted stone layer first as well. If you are doing mortar work, keep your cement and lime on hand separately, we deliver the sand, not the bagged goods.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Because this sand is finer and more uniform than concrete sand, it packs into paver joints tighter and resists washout better in a heavy rain, which matters in a spring like ours with real storm cells rolling through the Crossroads. For bedding, though, many installers here have shifted to clean chip stone instead, since it does not pump moisture up through joints the way sand can under freeze thaw cycles.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
Do not install paver bedding sand right before a hard freeze. With our first frost typically landing around October 15, projects started in late September need enough dry, settled days before ground temperatures drop, or the bedding layer can shift once it freezes and thaws again in spring.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
If your project needs both a structural base and this sand, order the crushed stone base and the sand at the same time so both loads land on the same delivery day. It saves a second trip to the site and lets you build the base, compact it, and screed the sand in one continuous work session instead of losing a weekend waiting on a second delivery.
Working With Sand in Effingham
Effingham sits on silt loam, a soil that already holds moisture well, so this sand is doing a job the ground behind it cannot, giving you a clean, drainable base under pavers or a workable blend for mortar and mason work. With a growing zone of 6b and a real freeze window between mid October and late April, anything set on an unstabilized base here is at risk of frost heave if the bedding layer is wrong. Most calls we get from the Crossroads of Opportunity area are for patio and walkway projects near new builds off the by-pass, or small mason jobs finishing brick and block. This is not a lawn material, it is a build material, and it behaves the same whether you are near the Cross at the Crossroads or out on a county road.
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.