River Rock Ground Cover Calculator

Calculate the volume weight and total cost for your landscaping project.

River rock ground cover calculator.

When ordering you need to be certain that you will have the right amount of rock. You can calculate the volume of gravel by multiplying area of gravel path by the desired depth. The square footage of the area is. Purchase enough landscape rock to cover the area.

This calculator is designed to give an approximate volume quantity for fill gravel rock or mulch to fill or cover a given area either generally rectangular or generally round. How to calculate landscape rock. Provides good drainage and erosion control. Small rocks may be used to create pathways or as a mulch in your garden.

Calculator select the material desired size and the area you need to cover to find out how much of that material you ll need. 200 ft 2 1 ft 200 ft 3. For example if you need 25 cubic feet of river rock and each bag covers 1 2 cubic foot buy 50 bags. Enter the dimensions of the area you want to cover in feet and then enter the depth that you would like to cover that area in inches.

If you still have questions please call the mulch and stone team at 703 999 2624. Pea gravel is a smaller size of river rock used in decorative concrete and other applications. Our river rock calculator can help you work out how much river rock you need. Material type select one decomposed granite cobble pebble crushed rock lava rock flagstone soil mulch construction rock sand rubble.

I want to ensure an equal coverage to a depth of 2 yards. Used in flower and garden beds and on walkways for erosion control. If the area to be covered is 200 cubic feet for example each bag of rock covers 4 cubic feet so you will need 50 bags of landscape rock to fill the space. Ask the landscaping company how many cubic yards a ton of river rock covers at various rock sizes and purchase the number of tons necessary to cover your desired area.

The same rule applies when you purchase river rock by the ton. You must estimate if the area is oblong enter the width length and thickness how deep you want the cover of your. Let s now say that i need to cover an area with a custom aggregate stone. River rock is round and smooth and is available in shades of gray or brown.

If you have the total area of your landscape beds calculated we d be glad to help you figure the amount of mulch topsoil or gravel you will need. Ground cover quantity and cost calculator. Sizes range from 3 8 inch to 2 1 2 inches.