Lime Screenings for Patios in Hartford, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Hartford, IL, from CA-6 road base to lime screenings for a patio bed. You order online, pick a quantity by the ton or the yard, and a dump truck tips the load on site.

Hartford sits in Madison County on ground that sheds water fast on the slopes and holds it in the flats, so what goes under a patio matters as much as the pavers on top.

Ground and Conditions in Hartford

A patio or walk built on a base that was never brought to grade shows it the first wet spring. The pavers rock, joints open, and the surface dips where water sat.

Across the Western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border, loess sheds water fast on slopes and holds it in the flats. On a Hartford lot that means the low corner of a patio takes the water and the high side dries out.

Gully and rill erosion in loess is the other pattern to plan around. Runoff that concentrates along a slope edge cuts a channel, and a bed set too close to that edge loses its base with it.

Work here runs from the spring thaw into late fall, a little longer than upstate. Frost still lifts drives and walks each spring, and the local building department sets the footing depth for its own jurisdiction.

Materials for Hartford Projects

Bedding is where a patio is won or lost. The layer under the pavers has to hold a level plane and let water move, and in this market that layer is lime screenings.

Lime Screenings are crushed limestone fines, the standard bedding layer in Illinois for pavers and flagstone. Screened to a consistent size, they compact to a firm, flat plane, and they are also used as backfill around pipe.

Under the bedding, most flatwork and drive sections start with CA-6, also called CA6 or road base. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, and it builds a compacted base for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

Clean washed stone handles the drainage side. CA-7, also called #57 stone or 1 inch clean stone, beds pipe and drainage trenches and sits under concrete flatwork.

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, does the same work at a smaller size.

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

Delivery to Hartford and the Surrounding Area

Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load. Choose the material, set the amount, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile on your site, so it helps to know where that pile should land before the truck arrives. Bulk delivery covers Hartford and the rest of Madison County, including Granite City, Edwardsville, Alton, Collinsville and Godfrey.

Order Hartford Aggregate and Bedding Stone Online

Set your quantity with the calculator on the product page, pick a date at checkout, and Illinois Rock Supply sends a truck to Hartford with the material you chose. Order lime screenings, CA-6, CA-7, washed sand or topsoil for delivery in Hartford, IL.