Gravel & Rock Delivery in Boynton Beach
A broad mix — older coastal neighbourhoods, newer western communities and a busy commercial corridor.
Boynton Beach is thirty-five miles from the yard and one of the more balanced markets in Palm Beach County. It has the older coastal neighbourhoods east of Federal, the large planned communities west of I-95, and an active commercial corridor along Congress Avenue.
That mix means we deliver a genuinely broad material range here rather than the hardscape-dominated pattern of Boca and Delray.
Building in Boynton Beach
East of Federal Highway the housing stock is older and the work is renewal: driveway and slab replacement, drainage retrofits and landscape renovation. That is base rock, #57 and topsoil in single-load quantities.
The planned communities west of I-95 — Hunters Run, Quail Ridge, the Leisureville developments and others — are mature and generate steady hardscape work, with association delivery rules that mirror the rest of the county.
The Congress Avenue and Gateway Boulevard commercial corridors provide the base volume: parking lot construction and repair, retail and medical development, and the ongoing redevelopment around Renaissance Commons. Crushed concrete performs well on those quantities.
Downtown Boynton and the marina district have seen sustained redevelopment, producing infill construction on constrained sites with the usual scheduling requirements.
Properties on the western edge sit lower and closer to the water management canals, so fill for grade correction and drainage rock both move steadily there.
Materials we deliver to Boynton Beach
We carry 21 materials and will haul any of them here. These are the six Boynton Beach orders most, with the specification detail you need to order correctly the first time.
Limerock Base in Boynton Beach
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.
Full Limerock Base specification, coverage figures and FAQ →
Specification
| Common specification | FDOT Standard Specifications Section 911 — limerock base course |
| Bearing value | LBR 100 typical for base course; lower grades exist for sub-base |
| Material | Mined limestone — Miami oolite in Dade, Ocala formation further north |
| Gradation | Well-graded from roughly 3-1/2" down to fines — the fines are what make it bind |
| Compaction | Placed in lifts, typically 6" compacted, to 98% modified Proctor |
| Approx. weight | 1.65 tons per cubic yard compacted (1.4 loose) |
| Coverage at 4" | ~45 sq ft per ton compacted |
| Coverage at 6" | ~30 sq ft per ton compacted |
What Boynton Beach 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 Boynton Beach
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.
Full Crushed Concrete specification, coverage figures and FAQ →
Specification
| Material | Reclaimed concrete crushed and screened to a base gradation |
| Gradation | Well-graded, commonly supplied to a limerock-base-equivalent grading |
| Contaminants | Processed to remove rebar, wood and trash; quality varies by producer |
| Behaviour | Residual cement rehydrates — the layer stiffens over months |
| Approx. weight | 1.4 tons per cubic yard compacted |
| Coverage at 4" | ~54 sq ft per ton compacted |
| Coverage at 6" | ~36 sq ft per ton compacted |
What Boynton Beach 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.
Paver Sand in Boynton Beach
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.
Full Paver Sand specification, coverage figures and FAQ →
Specification
| Bedding material | Washed concrete sand to ASTM C33 fine aggregate grading |
| Bedding thickness | 1 inch screeded — consistent, never variable |
| Joint material | Fine washed joint sand, or polymeric sand for stabilised joints |
| Joint width | Typically 1/16" to 3/16" for interlocking pavers |
| Base beneath | Compacted limerock, crushed concrete or shell rock |
| Approx. weight | 1.4 tons per cubic yard |
| Coverage at 1" | ~215 sq ft per ton |
What Boynton Beach 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 Boynton Beach
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.
Full Topsoil specification, coverage figures and FAQ →
Specification
| Material | Screened soil with organic content suitable for planting |
| Screening | Passed to remove rock, roots and debris |
| Approx. weight | 1.15 tons per cubic yard |
| Coverage at 2" | ~130 sq ft per ton |
| Coverage at 4" | ~65 sq ft per ton |
| Coverage at 6" | ~43 sq ft per ton |
What Boynton Beach 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.
Fill Dirt in Boynton Beach
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.
Full Fill Dirt specification, coverage figures and FAQ →
Specification
| Material | Screened soil, free of debris, roots, trash and organics |
| Grades | "Clean fill" for general use; "structural fill" where bearing is specified |
| Compaction | Place in lifts, water, compact — do not dump and leave |
| Approx. weight | 1.25 tons per cubic yard |
| Coverage at 6" | ~39 sq ft per ton |
| Coverage at 12" | ~19 sq ft per ton |
What Boynton Beach 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.
#57 Rock in Boynton Beach
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.
Full #57 Rock specification, coverage figures and FAQ →
Specification
| Gradation | AASHTO / ASTM No. 57 — passes 1-1/2", retained on No. 4 sieve |
| Material | Crushed limestone (South Florida oolite or Ocala formation) |
| Shape | Angular, crushed faces |
| Washed | Yes — minimal fines |
| Drainage | Free-draining; roughly 30–40% void space |
| Compaction | Does not compact — consolidates only, no proctor spec |
| Approx. weight | 1.35 tons per cubic yard (2,700 lb) |
| Coverage at 2" | ~110 sq ft per ton |
| Coverage at 4" | ~55 sq ft per ton |
What Boynton Beach 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 Palm Beach County
Palm Beach County is more geologically varied than the counties south of it, and that variation shows up in what jobs need.
The coastal ridge and the sand
The eastern edge of the county runs along a coastal ridge, and soils through much of the developed area are sandier than the thin-cap-over-rock profile typical of Miami-Dade. Sandy subgrade drains well, which is helpful, but it also means less inherent bearing capacity and more attention needed to compaction.
That is why fill sand and properly compacted limerock base matter here. Sand placed dry and left will keep settling; sand placed in lifts, watered and vibrated reaches a stable density that will carry a slab.
Water management
The county is threaded with an extensive drainage and water management canal network, and a great deal of residential development sits within managed drainage districts. Properties on the western edge in particular sit low relative to those systems, and grade correction with fill dirt is routine work.
Landscape rather than structure
The material mix in this county skews away from heavy structural work and toward hardscape and landscape. Paver driveways, pool decks and patios mean base and washed concrete bedding sand; planting renewal means topsoil and pea rock.
The standard of finish expected is high, and appearance genuinely matters — stone colour and consistency are things clients notice here in a way they do not on an industrial yard in Medley.
Getting a truck onto your Boynton Beach site
Access varies by area. West of I-95 is generally easy — wide roads, good turning room, firm ground — subject to association delivery windows in the gated communities.
East of Federal the streets are older and narrower with more canopy and on-street parking. Nothing unusual for a coastal Florida city, but worth telling us about.
Commercial deliveries along Congress should be scheduled around retail traffic. Dropping a load across a live entrance at midday causes problems that ten minutes of planning avoids.
Before you order
Four things worth reading once if this is your first load into Boynton Beach. Each opens the full guide.
Areas we cover in Boynton Beach
Downtown Boynton, Boynton Beach Boulevard corridor, Congress Avenue corridor, Chapel Hill, Leisureville, Hunters Run, Quail Ridge, Sterling Village, Renaissance Commons and the Gateway Boulevard area.
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.
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