Bulk Gravel Delivery to Fairview Heights, IL

Illinois Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Fairview Heights, IL to driveways, drainage projects and garden beds. Order CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone this market calls road base, along with washed stone, sand and soil.

The ground here sits on deep loess over older drift, and loess sheds water fast on slopes and holds it in the flats. That shapes what you order more than anything else on the site.

Ground and Conditions in Fairview Heights

When a base goes down thin, the first sign is rutting and pumped-up soft spots after a wet spring. Loess soil drains quickly on a slope and stalls in a flat, so a drive or pad can look fine in August and move by March.

Across the Western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border, freeze and thaw lift drives and walks each spring, and frost runs about 36 to 40 inches. That figure is the footing depth the local building official sets, not a depth for a gravel base.

Rill and gully erosion show up on steep bluffs and ravines, and slumping shows on cut slopes. Where runoff concentrates, it moves soil fast, so plan a clean stone drainage layer for water and a compacted CA-6 base for load.

Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall here, a little longer than upstate. That gives you a wider window to grade and place material on a dry day.

Materials for Fairview Heights Projects

Fines and screenings do the fine work on paths and garden walks. Lime screenings, the crushed limestone fines Illinois yards also call screenings, bed pavers and flagstone and pack into a firm surface for a walkway that stays walkable.

Pair them with a walkway surface that suits foot traffic. Screenings also backfill around pipe where the material needs to sit tight against the trench wall.

CA-6 is the base course under all of it. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, and it compacts into a firm pad for a driveway, a parking pad or a shed base.

For drainage, clean stone is the right choice because it has no fines to hold water. CA-7 and CA-11 are the washed 3/4 inch to 1 inch sizes for bedding under pipe, French drains and concrete flatwork, and CA-16 chips suit permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks.

Sand, soil and decorative stone round out a project. Torpedo sand is the coarse washed sand for concrete and leveling, mason sand goes into mortar joints and sandboxes, and Natural Pea Gravel and river gravel cover walkways and dry creek beds.

Delivery to Fairview Heights and the Surrounding Area

You order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard, then choose a delivery date at checkout. Each product page carries a calculator, so you can size the load before you commit.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile at the site. Have the spot clear and reachable, and know where the pile should land before the truck arrives.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers across Fairview Heights in St. Clair County, and to Belleville, O'Fallon, East St.

Louis, Mascoutah and Lebanon.

Questions About Ordering in Fairview Heights

What should I have ready when the truck arrives?

Clear the drop spot and make sure the truck can reach it without overhead wires or low branches in the way. Mark anything you do not want the pile near, such as a fence, a mailbox or a downspout.

The load tips in one pile, so the place you choose is where the material stays until you move it.

What is the best base under pavers in Fairview Heights?

CA-6 makes the compacted base, because the fines in it lock together under a plate and carry the load. Over that goes lime screenings as the bedding layer that beds and levels the pavers.

Keep the clean washed stone, such as CA-7, for drainage beside the work rather than under the pavers.

Order Gravel and Stone for Your Fairview Heights Project

Start with the calculator on any product page to size your load, then order CA-6, screenings, washed stone or soil online and pick your delivery date. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk material across Fairview Heights and St.

Clair County.