Pea Gravel for Pathways in Mittie, LA

Louisiana Rock Supply sells gravel and aggregate delivery in Mittie, LA, and the orders that leave for this part of Allen Parish come from contractors building pads and homeowners finishing a path. Both end up asking for the same thing first: 610 limestone.

Ground here sits on a silt loam surface over dense clay, so a path is often a drainage decision before it is a paving one.

Ground and Conditions in Mittie

Across the southwest coastal prairie terraces, the silt loam surface lets rain through until it hits the dense clay subsoil below. Water perches in the top foot and the ground stays soft long after the rain has stopped.

On ground this flat there is no fall to carry that water away. A path or drive laid straight on the natural surface starts to rut and pump at the edges, because the base never dried out underneath.

The fix is a base course that bridges the soft layer instead of sitting in it. 610 limestone works because the stone dust and fines bind the crushed limestone together and it hardens as it is rolled.

Bare terrace ground also erodes in sheets and rills before anything covers it, and ditch and coulee banks scour in the same storms. Cover a fresh grade in the same season you cut it.

Work runs year round here, with wet spells rather than cold setting the schedule.

Materials for Mittie Projects

Paths and walkways are where fine material does its best work, and it is worth weighing fines against clean stone before you pick. Screenings pack and hold a surface.

Clean stone sheds water instead.

Stone Screenings are the crusher fines that pass the finest screen. They bed pavers, fill joints and give a walkway a firm packed top that stays put underfoot.

Walkway Gravel is the finer gravel for garden paths, sized to pack rather than roll. It suits a path that curves and a bed edge you walk along.

#89 Crushed Stone, also called #89, is a fine clean stone for paver joints and thin bedding layers. Pair it with screenings when the joints and the setting bed are separate jobs.

Natural Pea Gravel is rounded and pea sized, for paths, dog runs, play areas and pipe bedding. It stays loose and drains, so it moves a little under a wheelbarrow.

Shredded Mulch dresses beds, tree rings and slopes. It is a surface dressing, not a structural material, so it never goes under a path.

For the base beneath all of it, 610 limestone is the Louisiana size, with stone dust up to about two inches so the fines bind it.

Crushed Concrete, also called recycled base or 610 concrete, is recycled Portland cement concrete screened dense graded with the fines left in, and Louisiana permits it as a Class II base course material.

Delivery to Mittie and the Surrounding Area

Order online and choose your quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator, and sizing the load there is the step that keeps the pile close to the job.

A dump truck tips your material in one pile on the site. That is the whole of it, so the spot you leave open is the spot the pile lands in.

Mittie sits in Allen Parish, and delivery reaches the surrounding area, including Oakdale, Kinder, Oberlin, Reeves and Dry Creek. Pick a delivery date at checkout once the quantity is set.

Questions from Mittie Buyers

What should I have ready when the truck arrives?

Leave the drop spot clear and reachable, with room for a dump truck to back in and pull out. The truck tips the load in one pile, so the ground you leave open is where it lands.

Nothing else needs to be arranged in advance.

What is the best base under pavers in Mittie?

610 limestone is the base to build first, because the fines bind it and it hardens as it is rolled over soft terrace ground. Above that, stone screenings give a smooth setting bed and #89 crushed stone fills the joints.

Washed sand also works as a setting bed where you want a fine, clean layer.

Set Your Quantity, Then Set Your Date

Match the material to the job, then size the load with the calculator on the product page and order by the ton or the yard. Louisiana Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil to Mittie and the rest of Allen Parish.

Place your order online when you are ready.