Lime Screenings for Pathways in Evergreen Park, IL

If you are planning a garden path, a paver walk or a new driveway pad, you need gravel and aggregate delivery in Evergreen Park, IL that matches the job. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk material across Cook County.

Start with CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone Illinois yards call road base, and finish paths with lime screenings. The clay ground here decides how the rest goes.

Ground and Conditions in Evergreen Park

Evergreen Park sits on the Chicago lake plain and the northeastern moraines, where heavy silt and clay shed water instead of taking it. Flat ground leaves little fall, so a thin base course fails fast.

Water sits on top, the edges rut, and the surface pumps under a wheel. The fix is a thicker compacted base of CA-6 over firm, drained ground.

Across this part of the state, heavy summer downpours overwhelm yard grades and storm sewers in the older built-up areas. Plan drainage before you plan the surface.

Base, driveway and paver 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.

Frost is a real factor in northeastern Illinois, where many freeze and thaw cycles lift drives, walks and slabs every spring. The residential code figure carried in this region is about 42 inches, and the local building department sets what applies to your permit.

Materials for Evergreen Park Projects

Lime screenings are the material that makes a path feel finished. They are crushed limestone fines, also called limestone screenings or stone dust, and they bed pavers and flagstone and top a compacted base.

Spread over a settled base, screenings knit into a firm, walkable surface that will not roll underfoot the way rounded gravel does. They also backfill around pipe.

For the base under that path or driveway, CA-6 is the material to know. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

CA-6 compacts into a stable pad for driveways, parking areas, shed and garage bases and trench backfill. In Chicago area yards it also goes by grade 8 or grade 9.

Where water has to move, use clean washed stone. CA-7 is 1 inch clean stone for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains.

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone used alongside CA-7 for bedding and concrete work.

CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch limestone chips for permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks. Washed Sand, or torpedo sand, is the coarse washed sand for concrete and leveling.

Delivery to Evergreen Park and the Surrounding Area

You order online and pick a delivery date at checkout. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, so decide which one your numbers are in before you start.

Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load. A dump truck then tips the material on site in one pile.

Have the drop spot clear and reachable from the street. Illinois Rock Supply delivers to Evergreen Park and to other Cook County places, including Chicago, Cicero, Schaumburg, Evanston and Arlington Heights.

Questions About Material and Delivery

What should I have ready when the truck arrives?

Clear the drop area so the truck can reach it from the street and tip the load without obstruction. Mark nothing for the driver and expect no spreading; the material lands in one pile where the truck tips it.

Have your quantity confirmed before the delivery date, and keep the pile off any surface you do not want covered.

What is the best base under pavers in Evergreen Park?

CA-6 is the base for paver work here, because the dense graded limestone with fines left in compacts into a firm, stable layer over clay. Over that, lime screenings bed the pavers themselves.

On ground that holds water, put clean washed stone such as CA-7 at the low edge so water has somewhere to go.

Order Lime Screenings and Base Material for Your Evergreen Park Project

Size your load with the calculator on each product page, then order by the ton or the yard and choose a delivery date at checkout. Illinois Rock Supply brings CA-6, lime screenings and washed stone to Evergreen Park and across Cook County.