Fill and Base Material Delivered in Lincoln, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Lincoln, IL, and the material this part of the state builds on is CA-6, also called road base or 3/4 dense grade.

CA-6 is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in. It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

Lincoln sits in Logan County on the Grand Prairie till plain, where deep dark silt loams sit over dense clay subsoil and water stands rather than runs.

Delivery to Lincoln and the Surrounding Area

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

Choose a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the load on site. The truck tips it in one pile, so pick a spot that keeps the pile clear of the work.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers across Lincoln and the rest of Logan County, including Atlanta, Mount Pulaski, Elkhart, Latham and Emden.

Materials for Lincoln Projects

Raising grade and building pads is where a lot of the work in this county starts, and that is fill and sub-base work before anything gets surfaced.

Fill dirt is bulk fill for bringing a low lot or a building pad up to grade. It goes down first, and CA-6 goes over it as the base course.

CA-6 is the base for a driveway, a parking pad or a garage floor. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, so it tightens up under a plate and carries a load.

For a patio or a walk, the bedding layer matters as much as the base. Lime screenings, also called limestone screenings or stone dust, bed pavers and flagstone, and CA-16 chips do the same job where you want a small washed chip.

For a drain, you want clean stone with no fines. CA-7 is washed 1 inch clean stone, and CA-11 is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone that Illinois yards sell alongside it.

Both go under pipe, in drainage trenches, in French drains and under concrete flatwork. Drain rock covers the same work, and contractors here specify it as CA-7 or CA-11 by number.

Topsoil and garden soil finish the job. Screened topsoil is dark and silty prairie soil for lawns, grading and bed prep, and garden soil fills raised beds and vegetable plots.

Ground and Conditions in Lincoln

Start with the soil, because it decides whether a base holds. Across the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, flat ground sits over dense clay subsoil with almost no natural fall.

Water stands instead of running after heavy rain. That is why so much farmland in this part of the state is tile drained, and it is why a pad that is not raised enough stays soft.

Bare silt loam also sheet erodes, and runoff concentrates into gullies where it leaves a field or a yard. A raised pad with a CA-6 cap sheds that water instead of holding it.

Timing is tight here. Base, driveway and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late fall, the ground is slow to dry in a wet spring, and it is frozen solid through the winter.

Cold winters bring repeated freeze and thaw, and frost heave shows up in gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs each spring. Frost depth is set by the local building department.

Questions About Material in Lincoln

What is the best base under pavers in Lincoln?

CA-6 is the base under pavers here. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, and it tightens up to carry the load.

Over it, lime screenings bed the pavers themselves. Where you want a washed chip instead of fines, CA-16 chips work as a bedding layer.

The sub-base below the CA-6 is what keeps the whole build from moving on this ground.

Do you supply contractors working in Lincoln?

Yes. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk material across Lincoln and Logan County, including Atlanta, Mount Pulaski, Elkhart, Latham and Emden.

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck tips the load on site.

Order CA-6 and Base Material in Lincoln

CA-6 is the base material this part of Illinois builds on, and it is the one to start with for a driveway, a pad or a garage base. Illinois Rock Supply delivers it across Lincoln and Logan County.

Order online, pick your quantity and a delivery date, and a truck tips the load on site.