21A and Bulk Aggregates for Clintwood, VA

How do you keep water off a driveway that drops down a steep hollow? You order the right washed stone, and you start with gravel and aggregate delivery in Clintwood, VA from Virginia Rock Supply. In these narrow hollows, runoff moves fast and it takes your base with it.

That is why so much of what we send into Dickenson County is 21A for a packed base, and clean stone for the drains that carry water away.

Materials for Clintwood Projects

On ground this steep, drainage is the job. Water has to leave the site somewhere, and the stone you pick decides how fast it moves. Here is how our sizes run, from coarsest to finest, and what each one does.

For heavy water, start coarse. RipRap armors ditch lines, culvert outlets and slope toes where storm runoff hits hardest. #4 Crushed Stone goes down as a trench bottom or a construction entrance that stands up to trucks.

For French drains, drywells and downspout runs, the washed sizes do the work. #57 Stone is the standard around 3/4 inch, clean and free-draining, and it is what most Clintwood crews want around a perforated pipe. Drain Rock covers the same ground when you are filling a drywell or running drainage behind a retaining wall.

Where the space is tighter, step down a size. #8 Crushed Stone beds pipe, fills paver joints and backfills behind walls. #89 Crushed Stone is smaller still, good for joints and tight bedding. 3/8" Crushed Stone tops a compacted base or beds a line without shifting.

Then the base and the finish. 21A is the Virginia driveway base, a dense-graded mix with enough fines to pack hard under a drive, a parking pad or a shed. 21B is the coarser, lower-fines option that drains a little better but packs less tightly. Top either one with Driveway Gravel for the wearing surface.

Ground and Conditions in Clintwood

Your working season sets the schedule. Snow and ice on steep grades stop work more than anything in winter, and a heavy storm any month can wash out ground you left bare. Order your stone before you open the ground, not after.

The soil here is thin and rocky over flat-lying sedimentary rock and coal beds, and past coal mining has disturbed ground in places. That means shallow cover, fast runoff and little room for error. Dig a base deeper than you would on level ground and compact it in lifts.

Cold high-country winters bring frequent freeze-thaw, harsher on the ridgetops than in the valley bottoms. Frost depth is set by each county, so check locally, since frost goes deeper at high elevation. Steep slopes with shallow soil over fractured rock are prone to slides and washouts, and road cuts, fills and old mine ground erode fastest.

Run a drainage layer under anything you pave or gravel, and daylight every downspout into stone instead of onto bare dirt.

Delivery to Clintwood and the Surrounding Area

Virginia Rock Supply delivers bulk material across Clintwood and the rest of Dickenson County, including Haysi, Clinchco, Bee, Birchleaf and McClure. Order online and we schedule the load to your site.

Quantity is the part most people guess at. Sand, topsoil and mulch are usually ordered by the cubic yard, while 21A and the washed stone sizes are ordered by the ton. Enter the area and the depth you want in the calculator to size the load.

Bulk delivery means a dump truck, so think about where it can turn around and whether the drive will hold it. On a steep hollow road, a load dropped at the top and moved with a machine often saves you a stuck truck. Lead time varies with the season and the size, so earlier is better.

Order 21A and Washed Stone for Clintwood

Virginia Rock Supply delivers 21A, washed stone, sand and topsoil across Clintwood and Dickenson County. Tell us what the ground is doing and we will point you to the right size for the job. Place your order online and we will get the load scheduled to your site.