Lime Screenings for Pathways in Medinah, IL

If you are planning a path, a patio base or a drainage run in Medinah, Illinois Rock Supply delivers gravel and aggregate to your site. Lime screenings are the bedding layer for a garden walk, and CA-6, the local road base, is what a drive or parking pad sits on.

This corner of DuPage County sits on the Chicago lake plain and the northeastern moraines, where heavy silt and clay ground shapes how a base has to go in.

Ground and Conditions in Medinah

Across the Chicago lake plain and the northeastern moraines, the ground runs to heavy silt and clay. Water sheds off that ground instead of soaking in, and flat lots have little fall to move it along.

A thin base course shows the failure first. The material pumps into the soft clay under a load, ruts appear, and the surface stops holding its shape.

The fix is a base built deep enough to bridge the soft ground, with a clean stone drainage layer where water collects. Lime screenings stay out of that wet zone because the fines hold moisture.

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.

Northeastern Illinois jurisdictions carry a frost depth of about 42 inches in the residential code, though the local building department sets the figure. Frost lifts drives, walks and slabs every spring.

Materials for Medinah Projects

Lime screenings, also called limestone screenings or stone dust, are crushed limestone fines. They bed pavers and flagstone and surface a garden path with a firm, fine finish that rakes clean.

For a path that needs to drain, Walkway Gravel gives a finer, walkable surface. 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is rounded washed gravel for walkways and play areas.

CA-6, also called CA6 or road base, is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in. It is the Illinois base material for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

Clean washed stone handles water. CA-7 and 3/4" Crushed Stone bed pipe and drainage trenches, and CA-16 Chips bed permeable pavers.

For soil work, Top Soil grades lawns and beds, and Fill Dirt raises grade before a CA-6 course goes down.

Delivery to Medinah and the Surrounding Area

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator to help size the load.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile at your site. Have the delivery area clear and reachable so the truck can back in and tip without obstruction.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers across DuPage County, including Naperville, Wheaton, Downers Grove, Elmhurst and Lombard.

Order Lime Screenings and Base Material for Your Medinah Project

Size your load with the calculator on each product page, choose a quantity by the ton or yard, and pick your delivery date at checkout. Illinois Rock Supply brings lime screenings, CA-6 and washed stone to sites across Medinah and DuPage County.

Place your order online when you are ready.