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One cubic yard covers roughly 324 square feet at a 1 inch depth, and most paver joint or bedding work only calls for 1 to 2 inches. For a typical patio or walkway project, measure your square footage first, then decide if you need the thinner 1 inch fill or the fuller 2 inch layer for pool base or mortar prep work. Sold strictly by the cubic yard, so partial loads are easy to size once you know your depth.
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Really appreciate the care and follow thru that this company had with our order. A hiccup came up but they were quick to respond and address all concerns, which made our garden day a success! Thank you for your prompt care.
One cubic yard covers roughly 324 square feet at a 1 inch depth, and most paver joint or bedding work only calls for 1 to 2 inches. For a typical patio or walkway project, measure your square footage first, then decide if you need the thinner 1 inch fill or the fuller 2 inch layer for pool base or mortar prep work. Sold strictly by the cubic yard, so partial loads are easy to size once you know your depth.
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Really appreciate the care and follow thru that this company had with our order. A hiccup came up but they were quick to respond and address all co...
Really appreciate the care and follow thru that this company had with our order. A hiccup came up but they were quick to respond and address all concerns, which made our garden day a success! Thank you for your prompt care.
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Most hardscape jobs around Pocatello pair this sand with paver base gravel underneath and clean chip stone for the top bedding layer, since chip stone resists pumping better than sand alone under freeze thaw pressure. If you are doing mortar work, a separate load of masonry cement or a portland cement mix rounds out the order. Pool installers often add a compactable base material below the sand layer for extra stability.
Mason sand dries out fast at this elevation, especially on a windy spring afternoon near the ISU campus. If you are mixing mortar on site, keep the pile lightly covered with a tarp between batches so it does not lose the moisture content that makes it workable. A sand pile that dries out unevenly gives you inconsistent mortar strength from batch to batch, which shows up later as cracking.
A common mistake on paver jobs here is using this mason grade sand as the bedding layer under the pavers themselves. It is too fine and uniform for that job, it pumps and washes out under freeze thaw cycling at our elevation. Save this sand for joint filling and mortar work, and use a coarser chip stone or concrete sand for the actual bedding layer beneath the pavers.
If your project needs both bedding material and mason sand for joints, order them as separate loads rather than trying to make one material do both jobs. It costs a little more in delivery coordination but saves you from redoing joint work or bedding failures within a season or two, which costs far more in labor than the second delivery ever would.
Pocatello sits on sandy loam already, so this sand is not fighting your native soil, it is a construction material for a specific job, not a soil amendment. Around Idaho State University and the older brick neighborhoods nearby, a lot of the masonry work still calls for a true mason sand for tuckpointing and small mortar batches. At 4462 feet the freeze thaw cycle here is real, so pool bases and paver joints packed with this sand need to be compacted well before the first frost sets in. Elevation and dry air also mean sand dries out fast on site, so plan your mixing accordingly.
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.
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.
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.
