1 1/4 Minus, Stone and Soil Delivery in Fife, WA

Washington Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Fife, WA, sold in bulk by the ton or the yard. Size the load with the calculator on each product page, then pick the material: 5/8 minus for a drive or pad, washed stone where water has to move.

Fife sits on Puget Sound lowland ground, where a dense till cap stops winter rain from draining away. That is why washed stone does so much of the work on a Fife drainage job.

Materials for Fife Projects

Washed stone is the first call for anything that has to move water. Fines are taken out, so the voids stay open and the stone drains instead of packing into a sealed layer.

• Drain Rock, also called 7/8 clean: footing drains, French drains, curtain drains and infiltration trenches.
• 3/4" Crushed Stone: trench backfill, pipe surround and under-slab drainage.
• #4 Crushed Stone: drywells and heavy drainage, where a coarse open stone is what the pit needs.
• Washington River Rock: downspout splash pads, dry creek beds and rain garden armour.

A downspout run or a French drain is only as good as the stone in it. Put a minus product in the trench and the fines fill the voids, which is the opposite of what a perched water table asks for.

Once drainage is handled, build back up with the structural and surfacing courses. 1 1/4 Minus, the local name for crushed surfacing base course, carries load under a drive or slab.

5/8 Minus, or CSTC, is the top course most drives and parking pads finish with.

Sand and soil round out an order. Washed Sand goes into concrete mixes and pipe bedding, while Mason Sand handles mortar, stucco and paver joint sweeping.

Delivery to Fife and the Surrounding Area

Order online, choose your quantity by the ton or the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load at your site in Fife.

Coverage runs across Pierce County, including Tacoma, Lakewood, Puyallup, Graham and University Place. If your job sits in Fife, it sits inside that area.

Have the drop spot clear before the truck arrives. The load comes off in one pile, so a firm, open spot near the work keeps the material where you want it.

Ground and Conditions in Fife

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

That is why a Fife drainage layer has to take water sideways to daylight. Perched water also undercuts cut slopes and fill on a smaller scale, which matters on any site where the grade has been changed.

The wet season runs October through April. In that window, exposed soil on a western Washington site has to be stabilized within two days, against seven in summer, so plan base, paving and paver work for the dry months and keep the grade covered if you build through winter.

Ground seldom freezes deep here, so it is saturation rather than frost that softens a base. A drive that was firm in August can rut in February, and that is a drainage question, not a cold-weather one.

Order Gravel and Aggregate Delivery in Fife

Washington Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, washed stone, sand and soil across Fife and Pierce County. Size the load with the calculator on the product page, order by the ton or the yard, and choose your delivery date at checkout.

Place your order for Fife and the truck brings it to the site.