Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel in Crystal Lake, IL

Order gravel and aggregate delivery in Crystal Lake, IL online from Illinois Rock Supply. Pick your material, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and a dump truck tips it on your site.

CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, is the base material this market builds on. It goes under drives, parking pads, shed floors and trench backfill.

Materials for Crystal Lake Projects

Grading and bed prep start in the soil, not the stone. Strip the old grade, bring the subgrade to height, then cap it with a compacted base.

Top Soil is screened Illinois prairie topsoil, dark and silty, for lawns, grading and bed prep. Spread it over a rough graded subgrade and seed into it.

Garden Soil is a blended mix for raised beds, vegetable plots and planting areas. It holds moisture through a hot Illinois summer better than raw subsoil.

Fill Dirt raises grade before a base course goes down. Use it to build up low spots, then cap with CA-6 for the surface.

For the base itself, CA-6 is dense graded crushed limestone. It compacts into a firm surface for drives, pads and garage floors.

Clean washed stone handles water. CA-7 is 1 inch clean stone for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains.

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

Lime Screenings bed pavers and flagstone. Washed Sand, called torpedo sand here, is the coarse washed sand for concrete and leveling.

Ground and Conditions in Crystal Lake

Water drives every decision here. Across the Chicago lake plain and the northeastern moraines, heavy silt and clay shed rain rather than take it, and flat ground has little fall.

Summer downpours overwhelm yard grades. Snowmelt in spring has nowhere to go once the ground is still frozen below.

That shapes what you put down. A clean washed stone like CA-7 or CA-11 lets water move; a fines-bearing material like CA-6 compacts and sheds it at the surface.

Frost lifts drives, walks and slabs every spring and leaves gravel surfaces soft until the ground drains. Northeastern Illinois jurisdictions carry a frost depth of about 42 inches in the residential code, and the local building department sets the figure.

Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall. Frozen ground stops compaction through the winter, and a wet spring keeps crews off soft clay.

Delivery to Crystal Lake and the Surrounding Area

Bulk material arrives by dump truck and tips in one pile at the drop point you choose at checkout. Have the spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives.

Order online in Crystal Lake and the rest of McHenry County, including Lake in the Hills, McHenry, Woodstock, Huntley and Algonquin. Each product page has a calculator for sizing your load.

Pick your delivery date at checkout. A truck tips the load on site, and that is the whole of it.

Questions About Stone and Soil in Crystal Lake

Can I order material by the ton for delivery in Crystal Lake?

Yes. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and every product page carries a calculator to size the load.

Choose your material, set the quantity, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load at your Crystal Lake address.

What stone should I use for drainage in Crystal Lake?

Use clean washed stone with no fines. CA-7, sold as 1 inch clean stone, and CA-11, sold as 3/4 inch clean stone, both let water pass through for French drains, foundation drains and pipe bedding.

CA-16 chips, the 3/8 inch limestone chips, work for tighter bedding and drainage around tanks.

Order Stone, Sand and Soil in Crystal Lake

Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, clean washed stone, lime screenings, torpedo sand and screened topsoil to grading, driveway, drainage and bed prep projects across Crystal Lake and McHenry County. Size your load on the product page, then place your order online.