Lime Screenings for Patios in Clayton, IL

Planning a patio, a walk, or a shed pad in Clayton? Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Clayton, IL, and most of those jobs start with two materials: a CA-6 base and a bedding layer on top.

Clayton sits in Adams County, where the ground is deep loess over older drift. That soil sheds water fast on slopes and holds it in the flats, which is why the base under your flatwork matters as much as the pavers.

Ground and Conditions in Clayton

A bedding layer laid too thin shows itself quickly here. You get dips at the corners, joints that open, and pavers that rock when the loess under them moves with the seasons.

The fix is a base that carries the load and a bedding layer that stays put. CA-6, also called road base, is the Illinois base material: dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

Fines let CA-6 knit together under compaction, so it holds a flat plane instead of shifting. That is what keeps a patio or a walkway sitting level.

Water is the other half of the job. Across the Western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border, water moves into the ground instead of running to a ditch in places, and slopes shed it fast.

A clean stone layer under the base gives that water somewhere to go.

Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall here, a little longer than upstate. Cold winters bring freeze and thaw, and frost still lifts drives and walks each spring.

Materials for Clayton Projects

Bedding under pavers and flatwork is a different job from the base below it. The base carries the load; the bedding layer levels the surface and lets you set each unit true.

Lime Screenings are the standard bedding layer in Illinois. These crushed limestone fines, also called screenings, bed pavers and flagstone and backfill around pipe.

Set your base first with CA-6. It is the dense graded limestone with fines that compacts into a firm, stable plane for a patio, a parking pad, or a shed base.

Where water needs to move, use clean washed stone. CA-7 is the 1 inch clean stone for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches, French drains and concrete flatwork.

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone that Illinois yards carry alongside CA-7 for bedding and concrete work.

For tight bedding and paver joints, CA-16 Chips are the 3/8 inch limestone chips.

Concrete flatwork in the same project takes Washed Sand, which Illinois yards call torpedo sand. It is the coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding.

Delivery to Clayton and the Surrounding Area

Order online and choose your quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you order.

Pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load on site. The material arrives in one pile where the truck can reach.

Clayton sits in Adams County, and delivery covers the town and the county around it, including Quincy, Camp Point, Payson, Mendon and Golden. Say the delivery point when you order and the truck will meet it.

For a patio, the two loads that matter are the base and the bedding layer. Order both together and they arrive as separate piles on the same drop.

Order Bedding and Base Material for Your Clayton Project

Start with the calculator on the product page to size your base and bedding loads, then place the order online and pick your delivery date. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Adams County.

Order your CA-6 and lime screenings for Clayton today.