Bulk Aggregates for Patios in Loraine, IL

If you are planning a patio, a paver walk, or a concrete pad, you need gravel and aggregate delivery in Loraine, IL, and the material under the surface matters as much as the surface itself.

Illinois Rock Supply sells bulk CA-6, road base with the fines left in, plus the clean stone and sand that go under flatwork.

This is loess country, and loess sheds water fast on a slope and holds it in the flats. That behavior decides what you put under a patio.

Ground and Conditions in Loraine

Across the Western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border, deep loess sits over older drift on rolling ground, and it moves when water gets into it. A thin base over that ground shows the failure fast: the pavers rock, joints open, and the edge settles after a wet spring.

The fix is a base that carries the load without trapping water. CA-6 gives you a dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, so it knuckles down under a plate and holds a level plane.

Clean stone under and beside it gives water somewhere to go.

Frost still lifts drives and walks each spring in this part of the state, and the ground here freezes and thaws through a cold winter. Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall, a little longer than upstate.

Materials for Loraine Projects

Bedding is where a patio is won or lost, so start with the layer the pavers actually sit on. Lime Screenings are crushed limestone fines, and they are the standard bedding layer in Illinois for pavers and flagstone.

They compact to a smooth, dead-flat plane that a paver seats into without rocking.

Below the bedding, CA-6 is the structural layer. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, and it is what you build a patio base, a parking pad, or a shed floor on.

Where water has to move, switch to clean washed stone. CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, and it beds pipe, feeds drainage trenches and French drains, and sits under concrete flatwork.

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, does the same work at 3/4 inch, and the two are what Illinois yards stock side by side for bedding and drainage.

For the sand layer, Washed Sand is the coarse washed sand Illinois yards call torpedo sand, and it levels and beds under concrete and pavers. Mason Sand is the finer clean sand for brick and block mortar and for paver joints.

Small chips finish tight work. CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch limestone chips, and they bed permeable pavers and top a compacted base.

Delivery to Loraine and the Surrounding Area

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 in one pile on site.

If you are unsure how much to order, each product page has a calculator. Use it to size the load before you check out, and the truck arrives with what you asked for.

Loraine sits in Adams County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Quincy, Camp Point, Payson, Mendon and Golden.

Order Bulk Aggregate for Your Loraine Project

Size your load with the calculator on the product page, pick your material, and set a delivery date at checkout. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk CA-6, clean stone, sand and topsoil across Adams County.

Order online when you are ready.