Bulk Aggregates for Pathways in Edwardsville, IL

Illinois Rock Supply offers gravel and aggregate delivery in Edwardsville, IL, for contractors and homeowners working on the same blocks. Contractors want material that hits a specification; homeowners want a path or a drive that holds up.

Both start with CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone this part of Illinois calls road base. It carries the fines that bind a surface together.

Ground and Conditions in Edwardsville

This is loess country, deep wind-laid silt over older drift, and it behaves differently on a slope than on a flat. Water sheds fast off a grade and sits in the low spots.

A thin base course is where that shows first. Silt works its way up through a shallow layer, the surface pumps under a tire, and ruts open along the edges.

The fix is a base built thick enough and wide enough to spread the load, with clean stone where water has to move. Across the Western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border, that pattern repeats on rolling ground and cut banks alike.

Frost lifts drives and walks each spring in this region, and work here runs from the spring thaw into late fall, a little longer than upstate.

Materials for Edwardsville Projects

Paths and walkways are where fines and screenings earn their place. A surface of loose coarse stone never quite settles underfoot, and bare soil turns to mud at the first steady rain.

Lime Screenings are crushed limestone fines, and they bed pavers and flagstone and surface a garden walk once they are wetted and packed. Illinois crews know them as screenings.

Walkway Gravel is the finer, walkable gradation for paths that carry foot traffic rather than vehicles. It lays down tight and stays put on a prepared base.

Under either one, CA-6 is the compacted base for drives, pads and path sub-base.

Where water has to drain rather than be held, CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, for bedding under pipe and drainage trenches. 3/4" Crushed Stone is the CA-11 size sold alongside it for the same kind of work.

Delivery to Edwardsville and the Surrounding Area

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you commit.

Bulk delivery means a dump truck tips the material in one pile at the address you give. From there it is your site and your crew moving it.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers across Madison County, including Granite City, Alton, Collinsville, Godfrey and Glen Carbon as well as Edwardsville.

Questions About Ordering Aggregate in Edwardsville

What should I have ready when the truck arrives?

Have the delivery spot clear and reachable, with room for a dump truck to approach and leave. A pile of CA-6 or a load of screenings lands where the bed tips it, so pick ground that can take the weight.

Keep vehicles and equipment out of the way until the load is down.

What is the best base under pavers in Edwardsville?

CA-6 is the compacted base course for a paver walk or patio, because the fines left in it let it lock up under a plate. Lime Screenings then bed the pavers themselves, giving a fine, level layer that wets and packs flat.

The two work as a pair, base under bedding.

Order Edwardsville Aggregate Online

Decide what the path or drive needs, then size the load with the calculator on the product page before you check out. CA-6, lime screenings and clean stone are all ordered the same way.

Place your order for delivery in Edwardsville and Madison County.