19 Materials. One Invoice.

Everything below is delivered anywhere from Jupiter down to Key West, in any quantity from a single cubic yard to twenty-plus truckloads a day. Click any material for gradation, weights, coverage figures and the answers to the questions people actually ask about it.

The vocabulary, translated

South Florida does not use the national aggregate vocabulary, and if you are new to the market that causes confusion. A few translations worth knowing:

• Limerock is what the rest of the country calls crushed limestone. It is the base material almost everything here is built on.
• Pea rock is pea gravel.
• Rock and stone are used interchangeably — #57 rock and #57 stone are the same gradation.
• Crushed concrete is recycled concrete aggregate, and it is a serious base material here rather than a second-best.
• Shell rock is a cheaper compactable base with no direct equivalent in most other markets.
• Millings are reclaimed asphalt pavement.

The limerock family

South Florida is built on limestone, and "limerock" covers several distinct products rather than one. They are not interchangeable, and buying the wrong one is the most common ordering mistake we see.

The short version: washed means drainage, graded with fines means load-bearing, and screenings alone mean neither. Tell us the job and we will tell you which one it is.

Browse by category

Gravel

Stone

Base

Recycled

Sand

Earth

Working out how much you need

Material is sold by the ton. Plans are drawn in cubic yards. That mismatch is where most ordering errors come from, and they are expensive in both directions — running short stops a crew, and over-ordering by a large margin ties up money in a pile.

The arithmetic: multiply length by width by depth in feet, divide by 27 to get cubic yards, then multiply by the material's weight per yard. Most rock runs about 1.35 to 1.4 tons per cubic yard; compacted base is heavier at roughly 1.65; topsoil is lighter at about 1.15.

Then allow for compaction. Base and fill lose roughly 20 to 25 percent of their loose volume once they are properly compacted, so the tonnage you order should be above the theoretical plan volume. Our tonnage calculator builds that allowance in and converts the answer into truckloads.

Order slightly heavy. Two extra tons in a pile costs almost nothing and always gets used. Two tons short on a Friday afternoon costs you a whole extra delivery and a crew standing around.

Why contractors use us

We are a sourcing and trucking operation rather than a pit. That is the whole model, and it is worth understanding because it changes what we are good at.

We do not own a quarry, so we are not trying to sell you what our quarry happens to have. We buy from whichever pit, yard or recycler is closest to your job and has the material you actually specified, and we haul it to you. On a market this spread out — four counties and two hundred and forty road miles — that flexibility is usually worth more than owning a hole in the ground.

The practical version of that: one call, one invoice, one point of contact. If a job needs base rock, bedding sand, fill and drainage stone, that is one quote from us instead of four suppliers to chase, four deliveries to coordinate and four invoices to reconcile.

We are locally owned, based in Fort Lauderdale, and there is no call centre. When you ring, you get somebody who knows what a tri-axle can and cannot get into.