Lime Screenings for Patios in Garden Prairie, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Garden Prairie, IL for two kinds of buyers: contractors setting base and bedding on flatwork jobs, and homeowners building a patio or a driveway themselves. Both end up asking the same question about what goes under the pavers.

CA-6 is the local base material, and lime screenings are the bedding layer that sits on top of it. The flat ground and tight till around here make the drainage layer matter as much as the base.

Ground and Conditions in Garden Prairie

Across the Northern Illinois till plains and Rock River country, tight till and a high water table sit under the flat ground. Snowmelt and spring rain on frozen ground push water across the surface instead of into it.

When a patio base is too thin, that water finds the weak spot. The pavers rock at the edge, the joints open, and the surface dips after a winter of freeze and thaw.

The fix is a base that holds its shape and a bedding layer that lets water move. CA-6 compacts into a stable base because the fines stay in the mix.

Lime screenings on top give you a smooth, level bed for the pavers.

The working season runs from the spring thaw into late fall, and it is a little shorter than downstate. Frozen ground stops compaction, so base work waits for open ground.

Materials for Garden Prairie Projects

Bedding is where most flatwork jobs are won or lost. Start with CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

It builds the compacted base under patios, driveways, parking pads and shed floors.

On top of that base, Lime Screenings are the standard bedding layer in Illinois. Crushed limestone fines bed pavers and flagstone and backfill around pipe, and they give you a surface you can screed level.

Where water needs to move, use clean washed stone instead. CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches, French drains and concrete flatwork.

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone that pairs with CA-7 for bedding, drainage and concrete work. For tighter bedding, CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch chips for permeable paver bedding and for topping a compacted base.

For the sand side, Washed Sand is the coarse torpedo sand Illinois yards sell for concrete, leveling and bedding. Mason Sand is finer and clean, for brick and block mortar, paver joints, sandboxes and volleyball courts.

If you are raising grade before any base goes down, Fill Dirt handles bulk fill. Top Soil finishes lawns and beds, and the Illinois prairie topsoil yards sell is dark and silty.

Delivery to Garden Prairie and the Surrounding Area

You order online, and quantities come by the ton or by the yard. Choosing between the two is the first decision, because the right unit depends on how the material is sold and how you are measuring the job.

Each product page has a calculator to size the load. That takes the guesswork out of the quantity before you pick a delivery date at checkout.

A dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. Garden Prairie sits in Boone County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Belvidere, Poplar Grove, Capron and Caledonia.

Questions About Gravel and Bedding in Garden Prairie

What gravel is best for a driveway in Garden Prairie?

CA-6 is the base material for a driveway here. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, so it compacts into a stable surface.

Driveway Gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops a compacted base. If the drive needs drainage under it, CA-7 is the washed clean stone for that layer.

How much material will my project need?

Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load. That is the reliable way to land on a number for your area and your depth.

Have your measurements ready before you order, then pick a delivery date at checkout.

Order Bedding and Base Material for Your Garden Prairie Project

Work out your quantity with the calculator on the product page, then place the order online and choose a delivery date. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk CA-6, lime screenings, clean stone, sand and soil across Garden Prairie and Boone County.

Order when your measurements are ready.