Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
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One cubic yard covers about 324 square feet at a 1 inch depth, and most mortar and joint work only calls for 1 to 2 inches, so a single yard often handles a modest patio or a run of paver joints. For mortar mixing, base your order on batch volume rather than square footage, since you are blending it with cement rather than spreading it flat. If you are doing both mortar work and joint fill on the same project, order them as separate calculations and combine at delivery.
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Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
One cubic yard covers about 324 square feet at a 1 inch depth, and most mortar and joint work only calls for 1 to 2 inches, so a single yard often handles a modest patio or a run of paver joints. For mortar mixing, base your order on batch volume rather than square footage, since you are blending it with cement rather than spreading it flat. If you are doing both mortar work and joint fill on the same project, order them as separate calculations and combine at delivery.
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Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will de...
Wonderful experience! They put the mulch exactly where we wanted. This mulch spread very easily and didn’t have the usual “mulch smell.” We will definitely use again!
Placing an order online was so easy. Delivery was on time. When the driver realized we had a newly poured driveway they erred on the side of cautio...
Placing an order online was so easy. Delivery was on time. When the driver realized we had a newly poured driveway they erred on the side of caution and opted not ti drive in it. The company even sent me a message explaining that call. Would recommend!
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Most paver jobs around Stevens Point pair this sand with a compacted base layer of crushed stone underneath and either mortar or polymeric jointing on top. If you are doing a pool deck, a layer of screened gravel below the sand base helps with drainage given our freeze thaw cycles. Some crews are shifting paver bedding over to clean chip stone since it will not pump under pressure the way sand can.
For mortar work in this climate, keep your sand covered and dry before mixing, especially in spring when Stevens Point gets a lot of freeze thaw moisture in the ground. Wet sand throws off your water to cement ratio and weakens the bond. If you are working outdoors between April and June, tarp the pile overnight even if rain is not in the forecast, morning dew alone can shift your mix.
A common mistake with paver joints is packing sand in too dry and too shallow, then watching it wash out after the first hard rain. Compact in thin lifts, dampen slightly, and sweep in a second pass a few days after the first to fill settling gaps. This matters more here than in drier climates because our spring rains are frequent and heavy enough to test joint fill fast.
If you are running both a mortar mix and a paver base on the same job, order them together and have the crew stage them in separate piles on delivery day, it saves a second trip. Chip stone is worth asking about too, more contractors here are switching bedding materials away from sand toward angled stone since it locks together and will not pump out from under pavers over a Wisconsin winter.
Stevens Point sits on sandy loam already, so this material is not fighting your native soil, it is supplementing a specific building task rather than amending a bed. With hardscape season running spring through fall here and a growing zone of 5a, most orders come in for patio and paver projects timed around the frost free stretch between mid May and early October. Because our native ground drains well already, this sand is almost always going into a structural role, mortar mix, joint fill, or a pool base, not garden soil work. That focus matters when you are sizing an order since you are measuring a defined area, not guessing at a bed.
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.
