Gravel & Rock Delivery in Pembroke Pines

Pembroke Pines is fourteen miles southwest of the yard and one of the more straightforward markets we deliver into. It grew rapidly and relatively recently, which means newer housing stock, wider streets, larger sites and easier truck access than the older coastal cities.

The work splits between commercial pavement along the main corridors and residential renewal in the planned communities.

Building in Pembroke Pines

The commercial side is driven by the Pines Boulevard and Sheridan Street corridors, plus the I-75 frontage. Retail, medical, and light commercial with large parking fields — which means limerock base and increasingly crushed concrete in multiple-load quantities, plus resurfacing and repair work on existing lots.

Crushed concrete does well in this market for the same reason it does in Pompano: parking-lot-scale footprints make the price difference against virgin limerock into a number that shows up on a budget.

Residentially, the planned communities built through the 1990s and 2000s are now at the age where original driveways, pool decks and patios get replaced. That is base and paver sand on one truck, the same pattern as Coral Springs, and it comes with the same association scheduling requirements.

The western edge of the city runs up against the water conservation area, and properties on that side sit low. Fill dirt for grade correction and #57 for drainage retrofits both move steadily there.

Materials we deliver to Pembroke Pines

We carry 21 materials and will haul any of them here. These are the six Pembroke Pines orders most, with the specification detail you need to order correctly the first time.

Limerock Base in Pembroke Pines

The material South Florida is built on. If it is paved, there is almost certainly limerock underneath it.

Limerock is mined limestone crushed and graded so that it runs the full range from roughly three and a half inches down to powder. That full gradation is the entire point. The coarse pieces carry load, the fines fill the voids between them, and when you add water and roll it, the fines cement the whole thing into a slab you can drive a loaded truck across.

South Florida sits on limestone, which means the material is quarried locally and hauled short distances — and that is why base here costs what it costs. In most of the United States, road base is crushed granite or gravel trucked in from a distance. Here, the Miami oolite formation in Miami-Dade and the Ocala limestone further north put the quarry inside the market.

You will see it written as limerock, lime rock and crushed limestone depending on who wrote the document, and heard as base rock or DOT base on site. Engineers specify it by FDOT section number. It is all the same product.

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Specification

What Pembroke Pines customers use it for

• Base course under asphalt roads, driveways and parking lots
• Base under concrete slabs, aprons and sidewalks
• Compacted base beneath paver installations
• Structural fill and sub-base where bearing capacity is specified
• Stabilised construction entrances and haul roads
• Pads for equipment, containers and modular buildings

What is the difference between limerock and crushed limestone?

Nothing meaningful in this market. "Crushed limestone" is the generic description, "limerock" is the South Florida term, and FDOT documentation calls it limerock base. Same material.

Crushed Concrete in Pembroke Pines

Recycled, cheaper than virgin rock, and it gets harder with age. The most under-rated base material in the market.

Crushed concrete is exactly what the name says: concrete from demolition, crushed and screened to a base gradation. The reflex reaction is that recycled material must be inferior to virgin rock. In this application that reflex is wrong.

Concrete never fully hydrates. There is always unreacted cement left in the matrix, and when you crush it, expose fresh surfaces, add water and compact it, that residual cement goes back to work. A crushed concrete base continues to stiffen for months after it is placed. Limerock does not do that.

It is also angular with a full range of fines, which is exactly the gradation profile that makes a good compactable base. Properly processed material performs at or very near limerock base — and costs less, because the raw input is a disposal problem somebody was paying to get rid of.

Miami-Dade in particular runs on it. The density of demolition and redevelopment in Dade means there is a lot of feedstock and a lot of processing capacity, and crushed concrete is the default base on a large share of the private work there.

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Specification

What Pembroke Pines customers use it for

• Base course under asphalt, concrete and pavers where accepted
• Structural and general fill
• Driveways, parking areas and yard surfaces
• Construction entrances and haul roads
• Pipe backfill and trench restoration
• Levelling and grade correction on large sites

Is crushed concrete allowed as base on permitted jobs?

Often, but not universally. Many private and municipal specifications accept it; some require virgin limerock. Check the specification for your job before building on it.

Fill Dirt in Pembroke Pines

Bulk soil for moving grade. Cheap by the ton, and the material most often ordered in the wrong quantity.

Fill dirt is screened soil sold by the ton for moving volume. The word that matters is clean: no roots, no construction debris, no trash, no significant organic content. Organic material rots, and soil with organics in it keeps settling for years after you thought the job was finished.

Where a specification calls for structural fill, the requirements are tighter — a specified gradation and a compaction standard, usually verified by a testing lab. If your drawing says structural fill, tell us, because that is a different order from generic clean fill.

For most residential and light-commercial work — raising a low corner of a yard, building a pad, backfilling an old pool — clean fill is what you want and what we deliver.

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Specification

What Pembroke Pines customers use it for

• Raising lot grade and correcting low spots
• Building up pads before base and slab work
• Backfilling excavations and old pool removals
• Landscape berms, mounds and contouring
• Filling behind retaining walls and seawalls
• General bulk volume where bearing is not critical

How many tons of fill dirt do I need?

Work out cubic yards (length × width × depth in feet, divided by 27), multiply by about 1.25 to get tons, then add 15 to 25 percent for compaction. Our tonnage calculator does this and converts to truckloads.

Paver Sand in Pembroke Pines

Two different sands do two different jobs in a paver installation. Using the wrong one for either is why patios go wavy.

A paver installation uses sand twice, for two completely different purposes, and the materials are not interchangeable.

Bedding sand goes under the pavers — a one-inch screeded layer that the pavers are set into and then vibrated down onto. Its job is to provide a consistent setting bed and to lock under load. This must be washed concrete sand, graded to ASTM C33.

Joint sand goes between the pavers after they are laid, swept into the joints and vibrated in. Its job is to transfer load from one paver to the next so the field acts as an interlocked surface rather than a collection of loose blocks. This is a finer sand, or a polymeric sand that sets when wetted.

Get either one wrong and the installation fails in a way that looks like bad workmanship.

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Specification

What Pembroke Pines customers use it for

• Bedding course beneath interlocking concrete pavers
• Bedding beneath flagstone, travertine and slab paving
• Joint filling and stabilisation between pavers
• Pool deck and patio paver installations
• Driveway paver installations over compacted base

What sand goes under pavers?

Washed concrete sand graded to ASTM C33, screeded to exactly one inch. Not mason sand, not stone dust, not fill sand.

Topsoil in Pembroke Pines

Screened growing soil by the load. The layer that decides whether new sod takes or dies in six weeks.

Much of South Florida sits on sand and limestone with very little native topsoil. Strip a lot for construction and what you are left with is not a growing medium — it is fill. Sod laid straight onto it will green up for a few weeks on the strength of what came with the pallet and then decline.

Screened topsoil is the layer that fixes that. It holds moisture and nutrients long enough for roots to establish, and in a climate where the rain arrives in violent bursts and then does not come back for two weeks, moisture retention is the whole game.

The practical minimum for sod is 2 inches; 4 is better. Planting beds want 6 to 12 depending on what is going in them.

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Specification

What Pembroke Pines customers use it for

• Sod preparation and lawn establishment
• Filling and levelling planting beds
• Lawn repair and low-spot correction
• Raised beds and vegetable gardens
• Topdressing over fill before landscaping
• Tree and shrub planting backfill

How much topsoil do I need for new sod?

Two inches minimum, four is better. One ton covers roughly 130 square feet at 2 inches, so a 2,000 square foot lawn needs about 15 tons at that depth.

#57 Rock in Pembroke Pines

The workhorse drainage stone of South Florida. Open-graded, angular, and the default answer whenever water has to move through rock instead of sitting on it.

#57 is a gradation, not a rock type. The number comes from the AASHTO/ASTM sizing chart, and it describes stone that passes a 1-1/2 inch sieve and is retained on a No. 4 — in practice, pieces running roughly three-quarters of an inch to an inch, with the fines washed out.

In most of the country #57 is granite or trap rock. In South Florida it is crushed limestone, quarried locally, which is why it costs a fraction of what the same gradation costs in Georgia and why nearly every drainage detail on a Broward or Miami-Dade plan set specifies it. You will hear it called #57 stone by engineers and spec writers and 57 rock by everyone actually standing on the job. Same material.

The defining property is what has been removed. Because the fines are washed out, the stone will not knit together and will not compact. Stack it and it stays a pile of loose angular rock with roughly a third of its volume as open void. That void is the whole point: water runs straight through it instead of perching on top.

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Specification

What Pembroke Pines customers use it for

• French drains and trench drains — the standard backfill stone
• Septic drainfields and pump chambers
• Under-slab drainage layer beneath concrete
• Pipe bedding and backfill where flow matters more than support
• Coarse aggregate in ready-mix concrete
• Loose driveways and equipment pads where mud is the enemy
• Erosion control at downspouts and swale outfalls

Is #57 stone the same as #57 rock?

Yes. "Stone" is the term on plan sets and in ASTM/AASHTO documentation; "rock" is what it is called on job sites throughout South Florida. Both refer to the same washed, open-graded gradation running roughly 3/4" to 1".

Ground conditions in Broward County

Two features of Broward ground drive nearly every material decision made here, and understanding them saves a great deal of money.

The water table

Groundwater sits close to the surface across the whole county and very close in the eastern third. In practical terms that means excavations fill, subgrades stay damp, and anything built without a drainage path will eventually sit in water.

The consequence for material selection is that open-graded washed stone appears in a very high proportion of details here. #57 rock under slabs, in French drains, around drainfields and at swale outfalls is not an optional refinement in Broward — it is the standard way of keeping water moving. Contractors arriving from drier markets consistently under-specify it and consistently regret doing so.

Limestone close to the surface

Underneath the sand cap is limestone, often within a few feet. That is why excavation here sometimes needs a hammer rather than a bucket, and it is why base rock is affordable: limerock is quarried locally rather than railed in from another state.

What this means for base

Subgrade preparation matters more than the base material you choose. A damp, poorly compacted subgrade will fail under any base, including the most expensive spec limerock. Stabilise and compact what is underneath, place base in lifts of roughly six inches compacted, water to near optimum moisture, and roll each lift before adding the next.

Get that right and crushed concrete will outlast a badly built limerock section at meaningfully lower cost. Get it wrong and no material saves you.

Getting a truck onto your Pembroke Pines site

Access in Pembroke Pines is among the easiest in the county. The road network was laid out for modern traffic, streets are wide, turning room is adequate and ground is generally firm.

The main constraint is the same as Coral Springs: gated communities with delivery windows and gate procedures. Give us the association details at order time.

For commercial deliveries onto active retail sites, tell us about customer traffic. Dropping 22 tons across a live parking lot entrance at midday is avoidable with ten minutes of planning.

Before you order

Four things worth reading once if this is your first load into Pembroke Pines. Each opens the full guide.

Areas we cover in Pembroke Pines

Chapel Trail, Pembroke Falls, Silver Lakes, Towngate, Grand Palms, Pembroke Isles, Spring Valley, Century Village, the Pines Boulevard corridor and the Sheridan Street corridor.

If your street is not on that list, we still deliver there — it is not an exhaustive index, just the areas we are asked about most.

Pembroke Pines — common questions

Broward County — general questions

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