Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Gardner, IL

For gravel and aggregate delivery in Gardner, IL, start with the ground you are building on. Heavy silt and clay shed water instead of taking it, and flat ground gives that water nowhere to go.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone Illinois yards call road base, along with clean washed stone, sand and soil. Order online and a truck tips the load on your site.

Delivery to Gardner and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick your quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout.

Choose your delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the material in one pile at your Gardner address, or at a site in Grundy County.

We also deliver to Morris, Minooka, Coal City, Mazon and Braceville. Gardner sits in Grundy County, and coverage runs across the county.

Materials for Gardner Projects

Decorative rock carries a lot of the work here: beds, borders, dry creek beds and ground cover. Start with what the project is, then pick the stone that answers it.

For a dry creek bed or a downspout splash area, use Large River Rock. The bigger rounded stone holds a channel and takes the force of running water.

For beds, borders and lighter ground cover, River Gravel spreads fast and reads clean against mulch and edging. Rounded stone stays loose, so keep it off slopes.

For walkways and play areas that need a walkable surface, 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is the rounded washed option. Pair it with Walkway Gravel where a path needs a firmer surface.

For a driveway or a parking pad, CA-6 is the Illinois base material. The fines stay in, so it compacts into a tight surface.

For drainage trenches, French drains and bedding under pipe, use CA-7. It is washed clean stone with no fines, so water moves through it.

Beds and tree rings take Shredded Mulch, which holds moisture through a hot Illinois summer. For lawns and grading, screened Top Soil is the dark silty prairie soil yards sell here.

Ground and Conditions in Gardner

Across the Chicago lake plain and the northeastern moraines, the ground runs to heavy silt and clay over clay-rich till. Water sheds off that ground rather than soaking in.

On flat ground with little fall, an under-built base shows up fast after a heavy summer storm. The material has to move water away from the surface, not hold it.

Bare clay lots also wash. Sheet flow off an unstabilized lot carries topsoil downhill, so ground cover and clean stone matter on new sites.

Frozen ground stops compaction through the winter, and a wet spring keeps crews off soft clay. Base, driveway and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late fall.

Northeastern Illinois jurisdictions carry a frost depth of about 42 inches in the residential code. Your local building department sets the figure that applies to your project.

Order CA-6 and Decorative Stone in Gardner

For a driveway, a parking pad or a shed base, CA-6 is the Illinois base material to start with. For beds, borders and dry creek beds, the decorative rock finishes the work.

Order gravel, stone and soil from Illinois Rock Supply for delivery in Gardner, IL, and pick your quantity and delivery date at checkout.