Bulk Material Delivery in Custer, WA

Washington Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Custer, WA, by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator, so you can size the load before you order.

Start with 5/8 minus if you are surfacing a drive or a parking pad. It is crushed rock with the fines left in, so it packs hard instead of soaking up water.

Materials for Custer Projects

This is wet country, and a lot of the work here is holding ground in place. That means coarse stone: sizes heavy enough to stay put when winter water comes off a slope, a swale or a bank.

Riprap is the big end of that range. It goes on shorelines, streambanks, culvert outfalls and cut slopes.

Quarry spalls are the smaller size class below them.

Large round rock, sold as 2 to 8 inch round, arms swales and ditches, protects bank toes and culvert outfalls, and builds feature beds where a smaller stone would be carried off. It is rounded stone, so it armours rather than locks together.

Below that, 3/4" Crushed Stone is washed and fines-free. It drains instead of compacting, which suits trench backfill, pipe surround, drain fields and under-slab drainage.

Railroad ballast is the heavy end for rail spurs, yard track and equipment pads. Say railroad ballast in full.

For the structure under a drive, 1 1/4 Minus is the base course, also called crushed surfacing base course or CSBC. It carries load and stays workable on soft wet ground.

Then 5/8 Minus, the crushed surfacing top course, or CSTC, caps the drive and sheds water. Finer still, Walkway Gravel packs tight underfoot on paths and side yards.

For water that needs to move sideways, Drain Rock, also called 7/8 clean, is washed with no fines, so it keeps its voids in footing drains and infiltration trenches. Washed Sand beds pipe and mixes concrete.

Delivery to Custer and the Surrounding Area

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load on your site in one pile.

Custer sits in Whatcom County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Bellingham, Lynden, Ferndale, Blaine and Everson. The driver tips the load and moves on, so the pile lands where the truck can reach.

Have the drop spot clear and firm before the truck arrives, with room to tip and a clear path in. Bulk loads are heavy, and soft ground in the wet months will not hold a truck.

Ground and Conditions in Custer

Puget Sound lowland ground is glacial: a dense till cap over outwash sand, with silt and clay below. Rain soaks the loose upper soil, hits the till and stops, so the water table sits close to the surface all winter.

That perched water is why anything built on till needs the water taken sideways to daylight. Footing drains and washed drain rock do that work here, and a fines-free stone is what keeps the voids open.

The wet season runs October through April. Under the state stormwater manual for western Washington, exposed soil must be stabilized within two days in that window against seven days in summer.

Base, paving and paver work gets scheduled for the dry months. Winter work needs the grade kept covered, because saturation rather than frost is what softens a base here.

A drive that was firm in August can rut in February.

Questions About Ordering Stone in Custer

What stone should I use for drainage in Custer?

Drain Rock, also called 7/8 clean, is washed with the fines taken out, so it keeps its voids in footing drains, French drains and infiltration trenches. For trench backfill and pipe surround, 3/4" Crushed Stone is the washed counterpart to a minus product.

Where a drywell or heavy drainage is going in, #4 Crushed Stone is the size for it.

What should I have ready when the truck arrives?

Have the drop spot clear, firm and reachable, with room for a dump truck to tip its load. The truck tips the material in one pile, so the ground under that spot needs to hold weight even after winter rain.

Keep the approach open and free of overhead lines or low branches.

Order Bulk Gravel and Stone for Your Custer Site

Washington Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, rock, sand, topsoil and mulch across Custer and the rest of Whatcom County. Pick your material, size the load on the product page, and choose a delivery date at checkout.

Your order arrives on site, ready to work.