Celebrating 25 years in family business, Greely Sand & Gravel Inc. excels in product quality and service, being one of the most valued suppliers of landscape and construction products.

In 1982, the husband and wife team of Brent and Donna Pyper began Greely Sand & Gravel Inc.
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and service have driven Greely Sand & Gravel Inc. into their 25th year of business. The family company has grown with strength and determination delivered by the Pyper family and the dedicated employees who work with and for Greely Sand & Gravel Inc. Some employees have been with Greely Sand & Gravel from the very beginning.

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After 14 years of dedicated service to Greely Sand & Gravel, Brent’s sister Sandy Simcoe will be retiring in 2007. Her strength and determination, kindness and support were evident throughout the years. As she moves to Mississauga to be with her daughter’s family, her warm smile will be greatly missed.

Serving the Ottawa area since 1982, the residential and commercial communities have come to rely on Greely Sand & Gravel Inc. for all their landscape and commercial needs. Greely Sand & Gravel Inc. is a leader in creating and established new products, achieving the goals of their customers. Customers continue to return to Greely Sand & Gravel Inc. where they are treated with respect and reliable service.

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Greely Sand & Gravel, with its subsidiary Greely Environmental Services, is a licensed compost facility that processes leaf and yard waste for the commercial sector and municipalities. Greely Sand & Gravel is one of the forerunners in incorporating reusable waste into their product, having opened their Greely Environmental Services composting facility in 1999.

Greely Sand & Gravel has been a member of the Composting Quality Alliance (CQA) since it was established by the Composting Council of Canada (CCC). Greely Sand & Gravel agrees with uniformed organization and standardized testing methodologies, thus providing their clientele with reliable mature compost. Furthermore, the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) has established strict guidelines to produce high quality compost suitable for all types of applications. Greely Sand & Gravel’s mature compost passes the CCME standards for Category A compost. This allows Greely Sand & Gravel to blend their reliable Category A compost with other materials to create unique blends, returning compost to the environment.

Greely Sand & Gravel also produces enviromulches, and new to 2007 is Greely’s own manufactured Aged Bark Mulch. It is made from clean bark that has undergone the ageing process, creating a dark coloured mulch. These mulches make-up just some of the numerous mulches they offer to their clientele.

Greely Sand & Gravel has been enhancing the recycled components of their quality products for over 20 years through the use of Continental Mushroom Farm’s compost. Greely Sand & Gravel has teamed with Continental Mushroom Farm in processing, delivery, marketing and sales. Greely Sand & Gravel processes 20,000 cubic meters of mushroom compost for Continental Mushroom Farm, as part of a working agreement. Greely Sand & Gravel also sells Continental Mushroom compost to both the commercial and private market.

Contractors, landscape firms and homeowners are contacting Greely Sand & Gravel for the types of materials they require to help get their projects, "Big or Small", completed. From the sand required to backfill a site, to the granulars for the roads and landscaping, right through to “spec” mantle sand for septic beds and hydro sand for trenches, along with the topsoil and topdressing requirements to make their lawns and gardens or bedding areas, lush and fertile. Greely Sand & Gravel has it all. Homeowners have come to count on Greely Sand & Gravel for their "Greely Topdressing Soil™"

"Topdressing Soil" was an engineered, designed soil for specific uses around the home and became the building blocks of Greely Sand & Gravel's soil reputation. Satisfying the needs of landscape companies and contractors is also a huge part of Greely Sand & Gravel's business. These companies require different grades of soil in their lines of work. As a result, Greely Sand & Gravel designs, tests and ships commercial topsoil, sport field mixes, baseball infield mixes and many other types of soil to their professional clientele.

Contractors are partial to their lightweight soil, which are used in roof gardens and other special applications. This particular product is designed for contractors with weight by volume and moisture control problems.

Greely Sand & Gravel is always a leader in designing and creating new products for your business, home and now your recreational needs. Greely’s baseball infield mix and Greely's sportsfield top dressing is used throughout the Ottawa-Carleton area in many City of Ottawa baseball diamonds & sportsfields.

Meeting the demands of customers, Greely Sand & Gravel has introduced Coloured Wall Stone in 2007. Easily stackable stone allows for that professional decorative look that many customers strive to achieve.

In order to continue creating and maintaining quality products, Greely Sand & Gravel has developed an In-House lab for testing soil during and after processing. This is to ensure uniformity throughout the material. If the desired result is Greely Sand Pitachieved, a sample is sent to an accredited lab to produce up-to-date reports. Providing quality and reliable products helps strengthen the relationship Greely Sand & Gravel has with their clientele.

Specialty products such as river wash stone, limestone varieties, mushroom compost and special mulches are also available through Greely Sand & Gravel.

An innovative idea allows customers the opportunity to use Mini Roll-off Containers to get rid of excavation and/or leaf and yard waste. With the benefit of receiving two different products in the container, and renting the container for yard waste, customers are able to save money and time. Just another advantage when working with Greely Sand & Gravel Inc.

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For more information
please call (613) 821-3003 or
Toll Free: 1-800-361-2406

BOX 430
Greely, ON K4P 1N6



 
 

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