I contacted Mulch Mound for #57 river rocks and it was easy and fast to get a delivery right before the holiday weekend. Stone was delivered as promised and place exactly where I asked. Excellent service! I will be ordering mulch next!
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Use 2 to 3 inches of decorative gravel for beds and pathways, and 4 inches of compacted base rock under driveways and patio areas. One ton of crushed stone covers about 80 to 100 square feet at 2 inches deep.
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I contacted Mulch Mound for #57 river rocks and it was easy and fast to get a delivery right before the holiday weekend. Stone was delivered as promised and place exactly where I asked. Excellent service! I will be ordering mulch next!
Use 2 to 3 inches of decorative gravel for beds and pathways, and 4 inches of compacted base rock under driveways and patio areas. One ton of crushed stone covers about 80 to 100 square feet at 2 inches deep.
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I contacted Mulch Mound for #57 river rocks and it was easy and fast to get a delivery right before the holiday weekend. Stone was delivered as pro...
I contacted Mulch Mound for #57 river rocks and it was easy and fast to get a delivery right before the holiday weekend. Stone was delivered as promised and place exactly where I asked. Excellent service! I will be ordering mulch next!
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Try Our CalculatorStone is sold by weight, so measure length, width, and desired depth in feet, divide by 27 for cubic yards, then multiply by roughly 1.4 tons per yard for crushed rock. Placerville driveways and paths are rarely perfect rectangles, so break curved or terraced areas into simple shapes and total them. Order 10 percent extra for settling into decomposed granite.
Add steel or stone edging to keep gravel from creeping into planting beds on sloped Placerville lots. Filter fabric and drain pipe round out any French drain or swale project before the winter rains arrive.
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Compact base rock in lifts, not all at once. Placerville decomposed granite subgrade is loose and forgiving, which means a thick uncompacted layer of stone will rut the first time a delivery truck rolls over it. Spread 2 inches, run a plate compactor or hand tamper, then spread the next 2 inches and repeat. The extra hour of work is the difference between a driveway that holds five years and one that fails by March.
Install drainage stone before the rains start, not during them. Placerville sees most of its 40 inches between November and March, and once the ground is saturated, digging a trench in decomposed granite turns into a slurry that will not hold a clean wall. September and October are the ideal months. The soil is dry, trenches cut cleanly, and your French drain is functional before the first real atmospheric river arrives.
Match stone color to Placerville's natural palette. The foothills read in warm golds, tans, and rust tones from the weathered granite and iron rich soil, so gold fines, tan cobble, and buff crushed rock look native. Bright white marble chips or black lava rock tend to fight the surroundings and show dust badly. Grab a sample and set it on the ground in full afternoon sun before you commit to a full load.
Placerville's steep terrain and 40 inches of winter rain make erosion control a genuine concern, and stone is the material that solves it permanently. Where organic mulch floats away in a January storm, gravel and cobble stay put and slow water down before it cuts channels through decomposed granite. Stone is also a fire smart choice, and with Placerville sitting in a high fire hazard area, replacing bark with gravel in the first five feet around a structure is one of the most effective defensible space moves a homeowner can make. Decomposed granite pathways and crushed base rock also handle the freeze thaw cycles we see between the November 9 first frost and the April 5 last frost far better than pavers set on soft ground. And on the hottest August afternoons, a gravel path does not decompose, fade, or need topping off. Stone is the once and done layer of a foothill landscape.
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