Lime Screenings for Patios in Argenta, IL

Gravel and aggregate delivery in Argenta, IL runs from the spring thaw into late fall. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk CA-6, stone, sand and topsoil by the ton across Macon County.

The ground here is flat and slow to dry in a wet spring, so patio and paver work waits on the calendar as much as on the material.

Ground and Conditions in Argenta

This part of the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois sits under deep, dark prairie silt loams. Below the loam is dense clay subsoil with almost no natural fall.

Water stands rather than runs after heavy rain.

That flat, silty ground is hard on a paver patio, because a thin bedding layer over soft subgrade pumps and shifts. A patio that looks level in June can show ruts and lipped edges by the next spring thaw.

Frost heave shows up in walks and shallow slabs each spring across central and eastern Illinois. Frost depth through most of central and eastern Illinois runs about 36 inches, and the local building department sets the figure it enforces.

Timing matters as much as material. The ground is slow to dry in a wet spring and frozen solid through the winter.

Sheet erosion off bare silt loam also gully-cuts where yard runoff concentrates, so grade your site before the bedding goes down.

Materials for Argenta Projects

Bedding under pavers and flatwork is where a patio is won or lost. The bedding layer carries the surface, spreads the load, and drains what gets under the pavers.

Get it wrong and the patio rocks, settles and holds water.

Lime Screenings are the standard bedding layer in Illinois, and the material this page is built around. Crushed limestone fines compact to a firm, smooth plane that pavers sit on without rocking.

The same screenings backfill around pipe and fill low spots under flagstone.

Lime screenings need a compacted base under them, and that base is where CA-6 comes in. CA-6, also called CA6 or road base, is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

Where water has to move, switch to clean washed stone. CA-7 is 1 inch clean stone with no fines, for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains.

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone Illinois yards sell alongside it for bedding and concrete work.

Smaller clean stone has its own jobs. CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch limestone chips for permeable paver bedding, drainage around tanks, and topping a compacted base.

Sand and soil round out a patio or bed project. Washed Sand, which Illinois yards call torpedo sand, is coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding.

Garden Soil fills raised beds and planting areas, and Top Soil handles lawns, grading and bed prep.

Delivery to Argenta and the Surrounding Area

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load on site. Illinois Rock Supply serves Argenta and the rest of Macon County, including Decatur, Mount Zion, Forsyth, Maroa and Warrensburg.

Tons and yards are two ways to order the same pile. Bagged material is measured by volume, bulk material by weight, and the difference trips up most first orders.

Each product page has a calculator that sizes the load from your project. Use it before you order, since the right quantity is the difference between a finished job and a half-covered one.

Order Lime Screenings and Base Material in Argenta

Start with the calculator on the product page to set your quantity. Then order CA-6, lime screenings, CA-7 and the rest of your material online for delivery in Argenta, IL.

Illinois Rock Supply tips the load on site so you can get the patio, drive or bed project moving.