Screenings for Patios in Kresgeville, PA

Pennsylvania Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Kresgeville, PA for two kinds of buyers: contractors running paver patios and flatwork on a schedule, and homeowners building one patio or refreshing a drive. Both need the same thing up front, a base that compacts hard. That is why 2A modified leads most orders here.

The ground in this part of Monroe County decides how the base has to go down, and we can help you match the material to the job before you order.

Ground and Conditions in Kresgeville

Folded bedrock shapes the ground around Kresgeville. Long sandstone ridges stand above valleys floored by shale, limestone or dolomite that weathers to clay. In the anthracite coal fields nearby, old strip mines and waste piles break the ground up further.

A thin base shows its failure fast here. After a few freeze-thaw cycles, a patio or drive laid over soft, wet or frozen ground heaves, cracks and loses its grade, because cold winters with repeated freezing and thawing work on any base that holds water.

Frost depth is commonly about 36 inches, set by each municipality, so check the local requirement before you plan a footing. For a patio base, the practical answer is to start on ground that has thawed and drained, then compact in lifts.

Water is the other half of the job. Rain and snowmelt run off the steep ridge slopes into the valleys, and in the limestone and dolomite valleys, runoff concentrated from roofs, gutters and drives can open sinkholes. That runoff also scours roadside ditches, culvert outlets and gravel drives, and it cuts back stream banks during heavy rain and snowmelt.

Base, driveway and paver work here runs from spring, once the ground has thawed and dried, into late fall. Base stone should not go down on frozen, soft or muddy ground.

Materials for Kresgeville Projects

Patio bedding is the piece that decides whether a paver surface stays flat, so start there. Under pavers and flagstone, Screenings, also called stone dust or #10 screenings, are fine crushed stone dust and chips under a quarter inch that pack firm and hold a bedding course without shifting.

For the structural base under that bedding, 2A Modified is the standard Pennsylvania base stone. It is crushed stone with the fines left in, so it compacts hard, and it carries driveways, parking pads, shed and patio bases. Pennsylvania buyers usually ask for 2A modified for this job rather than Crusher Run, which does the same work with fines mixed in.

Drainage behind a retaining wall or under a wet patio pad calls for clean stone. 2B Stone is washed crushed stone with no fines, so water moves through it and it does not pack hard. #57 Stone is the same size many yards call 2B, and #8 Crushed Stone, or 1B, is the small half-inch-and-down chip used for walkways and decorative topping.

Around the patio, Mason Sand handles brick and block mortar and paver joints, while Washed Sand works for leveling and bedding under pavers and slabs. If you are raising grade before any of it goes down, Fill Dirt fills low spots and backfills ahead of the base.

Delivery to Kresgeville and the Surrounding Area

You order online and choose your quantity by the ton or by the yard, whichever you think in. If you are not sure how much a patio base or a drive top-up takes, the calculator on the product page sizes the load for you, so you can enter your project and see the figure before checkout.

Pick your delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck brings the material to your site in Kresgeville. Tell us where the truck can back in and where you want the pile dropped, since a load placed close to the work saves a lot of moving.

Kresgeville sits in Monroe County, and we also deliver to East Stroudsburg, Tobyhanna, Stroudsburg, Mount Pocono and Effort.

Order Your Patio Material

Start with the calculator to size your base and bedding, then choose your material and your delivery date at checkout. Pennsylvania Rock Supply delivers 2A modified, screenings, clean stone, sand and fill across Kresgeville and Monroe County. Place your order when you are ready and we will bring it to your site.