Lime Screenings for Patios in Congerville, IL

Order gravel and aggregate delivery in Congerville, IL from Illinois Rock Supply. Buy by the ton or the yard online, and a dump truck tips the load on your site.

Start with CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone this part of Illinois calls road base. It carries the fines that lock a driveway or pad together.

Ground and Conditions in Congerville

Congerville sits on the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, where deep dark prairie silt loams cover flat ground. Underneath is dense clay subsoil with almost no natural fall, so water stands rather than runs after heavy rain.

That combination punishes a thin base. Silt loam softens, clay holds the water, and a paver patio laid over too little stone rocks and settles at the edges within a season or two.

Sheet erosion off bare silt loam is the other local problem. Yard and field runoff concentrates, cuts gullies, and scours banks after heavy rain, so bare ground around a new build needs cover fast.

Timing matters too. Base, driveway and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late fall.

The ground is slow to dry in a wet spring and frozen solid through winter.

Cold winters bring repeated freeze and thaw, and frost heave shows up in gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs each spring. Across central and eastern Illinois, frost depth runs about 36 inches, rising toward the northern edge of the state.

The local building department sets the figure that applies to your footing.

Materials for Congerville Projects

Bedding is where a patio or flatwork job is won. The bedding layer spreads the load evenly under every paver and keeps the surface true, so it has to be fine, consistent and easy to screed.

Lime Screenings are the standard bedding layer in Illinois. These crushed limestone fines, also called limestone screenings or stone dust, pack under pavers and flagstone and leave a smooth surface to set each unit on.

Below the bedding, CA-6 builds the structural layer. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

Use it for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

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

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, does the same work at a smaller size.

For the joints and the tight spots, CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch limestone chips. They bed permeable pavers, drain around tanks, and top a compacted base.

Delivery to Congerville and the Surrounding Area

Order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator, and the quantity you pick is the quantity that arrives.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile at the delivery address. Have the spot clear before the truck reaches Congerville, and plan how you will move material from that pile to the work.

Congerville sits in Woodford County, and delivery covers the county, including Eureka, Metamora, El Paso, Roanoke and Minonk. Pick your delivery date at checkout.

Size Your Load and Place Your Order

Pick your material, then set the quantity with the calculator on the product page. Order CA-6, lime screenings, CA-7 and CA-16 chips online for delivery in Congerville, IL, and a truck will tip the load on your site.