Lime Screenings for Patios in Du Quoin, IL

Order gravel and aggregate delivery in Du Quoin, IL the easy way: online, by the ton or the yard, tipped at your site. Illinois Rock Supply serves Perry County and the surrounding towns.

Start with CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone this market calls road base. Then pick the bedding layer your flatwork sits on.

Ground and Conditions in Du Quoin

Across the Southern till plain and claypan country, the claypan sits close to the surface and stops water moving down. Rain perches on top of it, and ground stays saturated for weeks.

For a patio or walk, that shows up as a thin base pumping under foot traffic. The base loses support and the surface above it moves.

The fix is a base that stands up to that water, not a thicker layer of the wrong stone. The season here is longer than upstate at both ends, but a wet winter and spring keep sites soft well into April.

Late summer and fall are the reliable windows for grading and base work. Cold but shorter winters than the north bring frequent freeze and thaw swings that work on saturated clay and heave drives and walks.

Materials for Du Quoin Projects

Bedding decides how a patio, walk or slab behaves. Get it right and the surface stays put through the wet months.

Lime Screenings are the standard bedding layer in Illinois. Crushed limestone fines, sold as screenings or stone dust, bed pavers and flagstone and backfill around pipe.

CA-6 is the base course under that bedding. Dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, it goes down for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

Below the base, Fill Dirt raises grade before the CA-6 goes down. Bulk fill takes up the low spots so the base course has something to sit on.

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

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11 or sewer stone, does the same work at 3/4 inch.

For the tightest bedding and paver joints, CA-16 Chips are small 3/8 inch chips that also drain around tanks and top a compacted base.

Sand finishes the list. Washed Sand, which Illinois yards call torpedo sand, is coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding.

Mason Sand is finer, for brick and block mortar, paver joints, sandboxes and volleyball courts.

Delivery to Du Quoin and the Surrounding Area

Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, whichever suits the material. Each product page has a calculator if you want a number to work from before checkout.

Pick your delivery date at checkout. A dump truck tips the load in one pile at your site in Du Quoin, and you take it from there.

Deliveries cover Perry County, including Pinckneyville, Tamaroa and Cutler. If your project sits outside Du Quoin, the same order flow applies.

Order Lime Screenings and Base Material in Du Quoin

Start with the calculator on the product page to size your load, then order online by the ton or the yard. Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, lime screenings and the rest of the list across Du Quoin and Perry County.

Pick your date at checkout and the truck tips it on site.