Bulk Aggregates for Patios in Eddyville, IL

Illinois Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Eddyville, IL to patios, driveways and drainage jobs. If you are bedding pavers or pouring flatwork, the material under the slab matters as much as the slab.

CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone Illinois yards call road base, is where most of those builds start.

This is hill country. Thin soil sits over rock across the Shawnee Hills and the southern uplands, so a base course has to carry what the ground cannot.

Ground and Conditions in Eddyville

Across the Shawnee Hills and the southern uplands, soils run thin over sandstone and limestone, with loess on the ridge tops and silt and gravel in the narrow valley bottoms. There is little depth for water to sit in.

Steep ground pushes runoff into the hollows fast, and Gulf moisture can drop a lot of rain at once. On a patio or driveway, that shows up as a base that pumps, shifts and ruts after a storm.

On a cut bank or a hillside drive, the same water scours surfaces, gullies unsurfaced tracks and undercuts culvert outlets. A clean stone drainage layer and heavier stone at outlets take that water away from the base.

The working season here runs from late winter into early winter, the longest in Illinois. Wet weather and soft hillside access set the schedule more than frozen ground does.

Winters are the mildest in the state, but freeze and thaw still come regularly. Frost depth in the far southern counties runs about 30 inches, and the local building department sets the figure that applies.

Materials for Eddyville Projects

Bedding under pavers and flatwork is where a patio base is won or lost. Get the layers right and the surface stays flat; get them wrong and the pavers rock within a season.

CA-6 is the Illinois base material: dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in. It compacts into a firm, tight base for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

Above or below that base, the clean stone does the water work. CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches, French drains and concrete flatwork.

3/4" Crushed Stone, or CA-11, is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone Illinois yards sell alongside CA-7 for the same bedding and drainage work.

For paver bedding itself, Lime Screenings are the standard layer in Illinois. Crushed limestone fines bed pavers and flagstone and backfill around pipe.

CA-16 Chips are the 3/8 inch chips for permeable paver bedding, drainage around tanks and topping a compacted base.

Sand covers the concrete and mortar side. Washed Sand, which Illinois yards call torpedo sand, is coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding.

Mason Sand is the finer clean sand for brick and block mortar and paver joints.

Where slopes need holding, RipRap is the heavy broken stone for bank protection, culvert outlets, pond edges and slope armoring.

Delivery to Eddyville and the Surrounding Area

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

Pick a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material on site.

Eddyville sits in Pope County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Golconda. Bulk loads arrive as one tipped pile, so it helps to know where you want that pile before the truck shows up.

Order CA-6 and Bedding Stone for Your Eddyville Project

Size your load with the calculator on the product page, then order by the ton or the yard and choose a delivery date at checkout. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregate across Eddyville and Pope County.

Place your order online when you are ready.