Bulk Aggregates for Patios in Mattoon, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Mattoon, IL, from CA-6 road base to lime screenings and torpedo sand. This is flat Grand Prairie ground with heavy clay beneath it, so what goes under a patio matters as much as what sits on top.

You order by the ton or the yard, and a truck tips the load at your site.

Ground and Conditions in Mattoon

Across the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, the ground is flat and the subsoil is dense clay. Water stands after heavy rain instead of running off, and a thin base over that clay shows it fast.

The slab or paver field rocks, the joints open, and the surface pumps when you walk it. The fix is a base course that carries load and a bedding layer that stays put.

Bare silt loam also sheets and gullies where runoff concentrates. Base, driveway and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late fall, and the ground is slow to dry in a wet spring.

Frost heave shows up in gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs each spring. Frost depth in this part of Illinois is set by the local building department, so check with yours before you plan footings.

Materials for Mattoon Projects

Bedding under pavers and flatwork is where a patio in Mattoon is won or lost. The bedding layer has to be fine, uniform and easy to screed, and it has to hold its shape once the pavers go down.

Lime Screenings are crushed limestone fines, and they are the standard bedding layer in Illinois for pavers and flagstone. The same material backfills around pipe.

Screened to a consistent grade, they compact into a firm, flat bed.

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

Under the bedding, the base course does the structural work. CA-6 is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, and it is the Illinois base material for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

Where water has to move instead of sit, clean washed stone is the answer. CA-7 is 1 inch clean stone for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches, French drains and concrete flatwork.

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone Illinois yards sell alongside it for bedding, drainage and concrete work.

For permeable paver bedding, drainage around tanks, or topping a compacted base, CA-16 Chips are the 3/8 inch limestone chips.

Delivery to Mattoon and the Surrounding Area

Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to help you size the load. You choose a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the material in one pile at your site.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers across Coles County, including Charleston, Oakland, Ashmore, Humboldt and Lerna. Order online and the truck brings the material to you.

Order Your Mattoon Aggregate Delivery

Size your load with the calculator on any product page, then order by the ton or the yard and pick a delivery date at checkout. Illinois Rock Supply brings CA-6, lime screenings, torpedo sand and clean stone to Mattoon and across Coles County.