3/8 Clean for Patios in Orting, WA

Order gravel and aggregate delivery in Orting, WA by the ton or the yard. Washington Rock Supply delivers bulk material across Pierce County, and the order happens online.

Start with 5/8 minus, the crushed rock with the fines left in that packs hard under a patio and a driveway. The same ground that makes a base work here is the ground that makes drainage matter.

Ground and Conditions in Orting

Orting sits in the Puget Sound lowland, on glacial ground laid down by the Vashon ice sheet. A dense till cap sits over sand, and its lower part is hard enough that crews call it hardpan.

Rain soaks the loose upper soil, reaches that till and stops. The water table then sits close to the surface all winter instead of draining away.

That perched water is what a thin base shows you. A patio or a drive built over a shallow layer of rock moves and ruts once the ground under it stays wet.

The fix is to take the water sideways to daylight before it can pool. A footing drain or a curtain drain of washed rock gives it a path out.

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

Schedule base, paving and paver work for the dry months. Winter work needs the grade kept covered between passes.

Materials for Orting Projects

Bedding is where a paver or flagstone job is won or lost. The stone under the surface has to compact tight and stay put, so the flatwork above it does not rock.

Use crusher dust, also called 3/8 minus or screenings, for paver and flagstone bedding and for joint filling. It is a minus product, so it compacts rather than drains.

For a setting bed that has to pass water instead, use 3/8" Crushed Stone. This is 3/8 clean, washed and fines-free, and it suits permeable paver beds and small drain runs.

Below the bedding, build the structural course from 1 1/4 Minus. Also called CSBC or base course, it carries load and stays workable on soft, wet ground.

Top a driveway or parking pad with 5/8 Minus, the local name for crushed surfacing top course. The fines left in let it pack hard and shed water instead of soaking it up.

Where water has to move, Drain Rock does the work. This is 7/8 clean, washed with no fines, so it keeps its voids in a footing drain or an infiltration trench.

Delivery to Orting and the Surrounding Area

Order by the ton or by the yard, whichever suits how you have measured the job. Each product page carries a calculator for sizing the load.

Pick a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material on site in one pile. From there it is yours to move and place.

Washington Rock Supply delivers to Orting and to the rest of Pierce County, including Tacoma, Lakewood, Puyallup, Graham and University Place.

Order Your Bedding and Base Material

Size the load with the calculator on the product page, then place the order online. Washington Rock Supply delivers 5/8 minus, crusher dust and drain rock to Orting and across Pierce County.