Fine washed bedding material
Set your pavers on a smooth, even bedding layer.
Fine blue-grey shale sand for screeding beneath patio pavers, walkway pavers, blocks, artificial turf, and approved above-ground pool projects.
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- Product
- Shale Sand
- Processing
- Crushed, screened, and washed
- Particle size
- Finer than 1/8 inch
- Colour
- Blue-grey
- Texture
- Fine, gritty, and angular
- Primary use
- Bedding layer beneath pavers
- Recommended paver depth
- Approximately 1 inch
- Compaction
- Do not compact the loose bedding layer before placing pavers
- Quantity allowance
- No standard compaction allowance
- Weight
- Approx. 2,700 lb per cubic yard
- Supplier
- Rolling Mix Concrete
- Recommended depth
- 1 inches
- Priced by
- The cubic yard
- Pickup minimum
- ¼ cubic yard
Is it right for your project
Right material, right place.
Works well for
- Bedding beneath patio pavers
- Bedding beneath walkway pavers
- Levelling patio stones and landscape blocks
- Artificial turf bedding and final levelling
- Above-ground pool projects where a fine sand layer is permitted
Choose something else for
- Bedding beneath patio pavers
- Bedding beneath walkway pavers
- Levelling patio stones and landscape blocks
- Artificial turf bedding and final levelling
- Above-ground pool projects where a fine sand layer is permitted
Why this material
The details that make it worth choosing.
Fine particles are easy to spread and screed to a consistent depth.
Use it above the compacted base to make small height adjustments before placing pavers.
Also suited to selected artificial turf, pool, block, and patio-stone projects.
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The fine bedding layer that helps pavers sit evenly.
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The details
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Supplier information
According to the supplier, Rolling Mix Concrete, Shale Sand is made by Rolling Mix Concrete. The shale is crushed, screened, and washed into a fine blue-grey material used primarily as the bedding layer beneath pavers.
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