Lime Screenings for Pathways in Lockport, IL

If you are planning a garden path, a paver walk or a patio base, you need gravel and aggregate delivery in Lockport, IL that starts with the right fines. Illinois Rock Supply sells lime screenings and CA-6 in bulk, and both come off the truck ready for the job.

Lockport sits in Will County on heavy clay ground, so what you put under a walk matters as much as what you see on top. Order online and a dump truck tips the load on site.

Ground and Conditions in Lockport

Across the Chicago lake plain and the northeastern moraines, the ground is heavy silt and clay left by the old lake and by glacial till. That clay sheds water rather than takes it, so a thin base over it shows the failure fast.

A path or pad laid on too little base pumps, shifts and ruts after a wet spring. The fix is a base course that spreads the load and a bedding layer that stays put under the pavers.

Flat ground here has little fall, and heavy summer downpours overwhelm yard grades. Water that cannot run off sits in the base and works the fines loose.

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

Long cold winters bring many freeze and thaw cycles, and frost lifts drives, walks and slabs every spring. Northeastern Illinois jurisdictions carry a frost depth of about 42 inches in the residential code, and the local building department sets the figure.

Materials for Lockport Projects

Lime screenings are crushed limestone fines, and they are the standard bedding layer in Illinois. Screenings bed pavers and flagstone and surface a garden path that needs a firm, walkable top.

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

Chicago area yards also call it grade 8 or road mix.

For drainage and concrete work, CA-7 and CA-11 are the washed clean stone. Both are 3/4 inch to 1 inch stone with no fines, used for bedding under pipe, French drains and flatwork.

CA-16 chips are the 3/8 inch size for permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks.

Torpedo sand is the coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding, and mason sand is the finer clean sand for brick and block mortar and paver joints. Topsoil and garden soil cover lawns, raised beds and planting areas.

Delivery to Lockport 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. Pick your delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material in one pile on site.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregate across Will County, including Joliet, Bolingbrook, Plainfield, Romeoville and New Lenox. Order online when you are ready.

Order Lime Screenings and Base for Your Lockport Project

Start with the calculator on the product page to size your load, then order by the ton or the yard. Illinois Rock Supply delivers lime screenings, CA-6, washed stone, sand and soil across Lockport and Will County.

Place your order online and a truck will tip it on site.