BEI continues to expand its operations in the aggregate supply market and offers a wide range of sand, gravel and quarry aggregates in a number of sources throughout Renfrew County.
When planning your next project, consider BEI for your aggregate supply needs. Please contact the office for pricing and availability (613)432-1120.
Please scroll down to view our available aggregates.
Bonnechere Excavating Inc. can deliver metric tonnes of any of our available aggregate via Triaxle trucks anywhere in the Ottawa Valley. We can also load your vehicle/trailer on-site.
“Load Delivery” refers to a product being dumped loosely on to your driveway by a dump truck.
Boulders
Description:
Field Stone (Boulders)
Sizes Available:
They come in a variety of sizes and colours, we encourage customers to visit our location when choosing boulders for their projects.
Applications:
- Focal points of a landscape feature
- Part of a retaining wall
- Gardens
- Brick walkway or patio installations
- Steps and walkways
- Ponds and waterfalls
5/8 Clear Stone
3/4 Clear Stone
Sizes Available:
5/8″ and 3/4″ Clear Stone
Clear Stone is generally used for drainage, around weeping tiles, window wells, and as a base for poured concrete.
Clear Stone is also known as gravel, drainage stone or clear stone
Applications:
- Drainage areas
- Window wells
- Under sheds
- Under concrete slabs
- Under cement garage floors
Cold Patch
Description
Cold Patch is generally used as a pothole repair solution, on pre-existing paved surfaces.
Cold Patch is also known as cold asphalt or cold mix.
Applications:
- Apply to potholes with little or no pre-preparation work
- Less expensive alternative to hot mix asphalt
- Completely seals and patches potholes, utility cuts, edge repairs and even overlays
- Can be applied as late as the Fall and early Winter months
Compost
Description
Blended Mushroom Compost is an organic soil conditioner.
Applications:
- Add Mushroom Compost to flower beds and vegetable gardens for an excellent source of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in a form readily available to the soil micro-organisms.
- Recommended to mix into the existing soil rather than applying on top of flower beds and gardens
Crushed Gravel
Sizes Available:
Stonedust, 7/8″ and 2″ Crushed Stone
Crushed Stone is great for packing since it is a mixture of various sized stone and stonedust. It is used under slabs, for driveways, or anything where a hard, compacted base is required.
Crushed Stone is also known as screenings, gravel, Granular A, 3/4″ crushed stone.
Applications:
- Under patio stones
- Interlocking brick
- Driveways
- Pathways
- Under sheds
- Under hot tub pads
Filter Bed Sand
Description:
This is a screened sand and the main material used in Filter Bed septic systems.
Applications:
- Septic system installation or repairs
- Slow sand filters
Gran A Pit
Description:
7/8″ Crusher Run Gravel (Granular A): A well graded mixture of Sand and Crushed Gravel screened to be less than 3/4″
Applications:
- Sub-Base Layer as a load bearing and strengthening component of a road base or parking lot
- Various construction applications
- Can be used as a mixing component in bagged or construction concrete
- Shouldering
- Finish Grading
- Driveways
Gran A Quarry
Description:
A mechanically crushed quarry product.
Applications:
- Various construction applications
- Can be used as a mixing component in concrete
- Sub-Base Layer as a load bearing and strengthening component of a road base or parking lot
- Shouldering
- Finish Grading
- Driveways
Gran B Type I
Description
Material dug from pit bank. Rounded stones from 4″ and down to sand. No crushed material.
Applications:
- Suitable as a base for driveways, roadways or parking lots
Gran B Type II
Description
A mechanically crushed quarry product, larger than Granular A.
Applications:
- Various construction applications
- Suitable as a base material, like Granular B Type I
Landscape
Sizes Available:
Natural – per metric tonne
Landscape Stone is distinctive stones, with varying sizes and colours
Landscape Stone is also known as Granite Landscape Boulders
Applications:
- Landscape accents
- Pond or water features
- Natural rock gardens
- Playgrounds
Granular M Pit
Description
5/8″ Gravel (Granular M): Referred to as 5/8 crusher run
Applications:
- Shouldering
- Finish Grading
- Driveways
- Sub-Base Layer as a load bearing and strengthening component of a road base or parking lot
- Various construction applications
Granular M Quarry
Description
5/8″ Gravel (Granular M): A well graded, mechanically crushed mixture of Sand and Crushed Gravel screened to be less than 3/4″
Applications:
- Sub-Base Layer as a load bearing and strengthening component of a road base or parking lot
- Various construction applications
- Shouldering
- Finish Grading
- Driveways
Rip Rap or Gabian Stone
Sizes Available:
3″, 4″ to 6″ and 6″ to 8″ Clear Stone
Rip Rap is generally used to reduce erosion, along shorelines, streambeds, bridge abutments, pilings and other shoreline structures against water or ice erosion.
Rip Rap is also known as shot rock, rock armour, or rubble.
Applications:
- Shoreline stabilization to limit erosion associated with wave action
- Along the outer bank of a river bend, dissipating the water against the bank
- Near bridges along embankments and adjacent to supports in waterways
- Sloped areas along roadways
- Large ditching efforts
3/8 River Stone
5/8 River Stone
River Stone
Description
An aesthetic natural round stone product of varying sizes. Can be a mulch substitute or used in drainage applications.
Applications:
- Gardens
- Steps and walkways
- Ponds and waterfall
- Patio base
- Many landscaping uses
Stone Dust or Screenings
Description:
Crushed Screened Stone
Applications:
- Leveling of bases for masonry products:
- Brick pavers
- Flagstone
- Brick
- Retaining Walls
- Walkways and Driveways
Screened Sand
Description:
Natural screened sand.
- Screened sand is also known as clean fill.
- We cannot guarantee that this sand will meet specifications for building code.
Applications:
- Sand boxes
- Volleyball courts
- Foundation backfill
- Utility trenches