About this sand
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?
At a 1 inch depth, one cubic yard covers about 324 square feet, so a small paver patio project might only need a fraction of a yard while a full mortar mixing job for a larger stone wall could run higher. Typical install depth for this sand runs 1 to 2 inches, so cut that coverage number roughly in half if you're going with 2 inches. Measure your square footage first, then match it against the depth you actually plan to use.
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Rock Island 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?
At a 1 inch depth, one cubic yard covers about 324 square feet, so a small paver patio project might only need a fraction of a yard while a full mortar mixing job for a larger stone wall could run higher. Typical install depth for this sand runs 1 to 2 inches, so cut that coverage number roughly in half if you're going with 2 inches. Measure your square footage first, then match it against the depth you actually plan to use.
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
Most jobs pairing this sand also need a base material like crushed limestone or gravel underneath for drainage, and pavers or natural stone on top. If you're pointing mortar joints on brick, a bagged mortar mix and this sand together get you most of the way there without extra trips to a supply yard.
Service area
Areas we deliver sand in Rock Island, Illinois
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
For mortar work in Rock Island's climate, mix small batches if you're working outside once temperatures start dropping toward first frost in mid October. Sand and mortar both set slower and behave differently below 50 degrees, and a batch that sits too long before use can lose workability fast in cold, damp fall air. Spring and summer give you a wider working window, so plan big mortar pours for warmer months if you have flexibility.
Mulch Mound Pro Tip
A common mistake on paver patios is using this sand as the bedding layer under the pavers themselves rather than just in the joints. Fine sand under pavers can shift and allow water to pump up through joints over time, especially in silt loam areas where drainage is already slow. Many installers now use a clean chip stone for bedding and save this finer sand strictly for filling joints after pavers are set.
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If you're doing both a paver patio and a mortared wall in the same project, order your base gravel, this sand, and your pavers together so everything arrives in one trip instead of several. Staging materials close to each other before you start also saves time once you're compacting base and setting stone, since you won't be walking back and forth across the yard for each step.
Working With Sand in Rock Island
Rock Island sits on silt loam, which drains slowly and holds moisture longer than sandy soil, so a lot of hardscape work here is really about managing water at the base of a patio or walkway before the sand and pavers ever go down. This sand is not a soil amendment, it is a construction material, and around here it shows up most in mortar for stone work near the Arsenal's older brick and limestone buildings, plus paver joints on new patios going in during the spring building rush. Because our winters bring hard freezes down to the low 20s and below by January, anything set in sand needs a compacted, well drained base underneath or it will heave.
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.