Sand & Gravel Sales

You’ve seen it on your favourite golf course as the gravel on the golf cart paths – now the same great chips are available for your own yard!

Cart Path Chip is an excellent blend of 1/4” minus rock full of loose material that compacts to a tough base. Because this material packs tightly it is ideal for garden pathways: comfortable to walk on, and easy to push a fully loaded wheelbarrow on top of.

For those golfers out there, this is THE product that builds the firm base under our artificial grass putting green kits. Yes, your oasis awaits!

This gravel features the same coloration as our larger 3/4” fracture. Crushed 1/2” clear can be used for garden pathways, gravel driveways, and in conjunction with weed-barrier fabric – a general groundcover in landscaping. It is also a great material for packing in around wood-fence post installations to help with drainage and keep wet dirt off of the posts. This helps to help slow rotting of buried posts. Due to it’s angular nature this is a good packing material that also still drains freely due to the lack of fines – also great for wet areas in the landscape. A truly versatile product.

Dollar for dollar, our 1” Dark Fractured is one of the best values in our yard. It offers a consistent olive-grey colour normally found in more expensive decorative stones.

The loosely-graded 1/2” Dark Fractured stone is perfect for landscaping walkways, loose patios, or as an inexpensive ground-cover for that extra parking space. Colour is a consistent olive-grey.

The most common driveway gravel, Driveway Chips are a 3/8” minus rock full of loose material that compacts into a tough base.

This product is great for any project that needs a compact chip – driveways, parking spaces, and pathways are all perfect candidates for Driveway Chip.

A consistent 3/4” in size, our Fractured granite rock works well as a slightly loose pathway or driveway gravel, and does provide some drainage as well.

Fractured Rock is commonly used for “cleaning up” areas, and provides a great balance of price and aesthetics.

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An excellent size to work with and install, this Vancouver Island sandstone is light grey with some tan highlights to offer excellent contrast when installed in shrub beds and also works very nicely with darker-colored slate stepping stone installations.

For best long-term effect, install over our heavy duty weedbarrier.

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Making a loud RUMBLE when dumped out of our trucks, this dark basalt stone offers a larger scale version with the same coloring as our smaller dark fractured rocks.

Uses include ground-cover for shrub beds with the benefit of being heavy enough to “stay put” when a leaf blower is used in the fall to cleanup fallen debris. This stone is also a very, very good structural fill to “tighten up” poor, or damp sub-soils in preparation for further building or overlay with road-base material or driveway chips on top – say for a parking spot or a driveway installation. In such use, as minimum 460# plate compactor is recommended to get proper compaction. Overall, a great product!

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An excellent size to work with and install, this is your Vancouver Island slate that has been crushed and screened to create a unique looking rock that has a dark overall appearance with good sheen. Provides good contrast when installed in shrub beds and also works very nicely with lighter-colored slate stepping stone installations to provide contrast.

For best long-term effect, install over our heavy duty weedbarrier.

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The 3/4” Village Creek limestone mixture is great for covering large areas with a bit of pizzazz – this colourful stone is a beautiful accent choice as well.

Slightly larger – and a little harder to shovel – than the 3/4”, our 1–1/2” Drain Rock is another great option for either drainage or decoration. It also provides slightly better drainage than the 3/4”.

A standard, round rock used for drainage – 3/4” Drain Rock also works well for making natural looking decorative areas, such as river beds.

Try mixing with the 2”–12” River Rock!

The standard gravel for exposed aggregate concrete and playgrounds, Pea Gravel is a “soft”, round rock, about 1/2” in diameter.

And because it’s so loose, Pea Gravel is not usually recommended for pathways – unless you’re planning on being barefoot most of the time!

Perfect for landscaping projects wanting that “natural look”, our 2”–12” River Rock takes your dry riverbed to the next level! Equally great for covering large decorative areas or using a few rocks here and there to add some size contrast to your landscape.

Pro tip: combine the River Rock with both sizes of Drain Rock to achieve that authentic riverbed look!

A coarse, general purpose sand. Great for bedding water pipe or irrigation lines in trenches, turning into sand bags, and laying underneath paving stones.

Because it’s coarse, Bedding Sand will not compact, and is not suitable for sandboxes – try the Masonry Sand instead.

A washed, coarse sand – generally used in the creation of concrete. Since Concrete Sand is similar in consistency to the Bedding Sand, it also works for filling and levelling.

When paired with cement, our fine, washed Masonry Sand is ideal for grouting or brick laying, or for levelling inflatable pools.

And since it’s clean and fine, Masonry Sand works great in sandboxes – the kids will love it!

If you’re looking for an economical material to be used as non-structural fill, our Fill Material is a great option. Please note that Fill Material does not adhere to any technical specification, and as such it is not recommended for any structural applications. This at times may contain pieces of sod, wood and larger stone.

• This product is subject to availability, and may not always be in stock; please call (250) 758-2401 to confirm.

Our Navvy Jack is a select mixture of aggregate and clean sand, designed to be paired with Type-10 (Portland) cement when mixing concrete.

Don’t forget: we sell an entire range of concrete and cement products, as well as rent all of the tools you need to make mixing and placing concrete easier.

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This overburden is generally sandy with round gravel rock up to usually 10”, and some organics/wood mixed in. More gravel-like than soil-like.

Excellent cost-effective material for building up landscape areas where a spec. gravel is not required. The dirty aggregate will compact well with a reversible 460 pound or 1000 pound plate compactor.

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As it sounds – ground up asphalt that is screened to 3/4” minus material. Should be placed at about 3” depth on a prepared sub-base of 3/4” road base. This can then provide an excellent gravel roadway material, say, for a long gravel driveway installation. Best placed, smoothed out, and then compacted. R.A.P. will initially seem “a little soft” but once it is weathered – rained on and the sun bakes it – this gravel will harden up and create a great, durable surface. NOT an asphalt replacement, however, this gravel does have the unique benefit of VERY minimal dust due to the bit of residual oil in the gravel mixture that “locks up” the fines and prevents them from blowing around.

Road Base is built to pack. A dense mixture of rock and sand made for strong, hard-packing bases, Road Base is perfect for use under paving stones (under the bedding sand layer), retaining wall blocks, poured concrete slabs, or roadways.

This product is also commonly referred to as ‘3/4” Minus’, ‘3/4” Crush’, or ‘Road Pack’.

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Similar to our 3/4” road base, but with larger rocks. This is the same material used to build up strength under road-ways and highways in preparation for topping off with 3/4” road base. Suitable anywhere a large depth of good structural fill is required in preparation for further building such as around house foundations, under driveways, and concrete slabs. This material has the added benefit of being a “tight” material but still freely draining – something that simply cannot be found with standard clay/dirt backfill on a jobsite.