Lime Screenings for Pathways in Monticello, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Monticello, IL, and the season sets the schedule. Base, driveway and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late fall.

Ground here is slow to dry in a wet spring and frozen solid through winter. Plan the load around that window.

Ground and Conditions in Monticello

This part of Piatt County sits on the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois. The land is flat to gently rolling, and the subsoil under the dark prairie silt loam is dense clay.

There is almost no natural fall. Water stands rather than runs after heavy rain, and bare silt loam moves as sheet erosion where runoff concentrates.

A thin base shows its failure fast on this ground. The material pumps into the clay, ruts appear, and the surface stops shedding water.

The fix is a compacted base of the right depth over ground that drains. Clean washed stone under a fines-bearing course keeps water moving instead of holding it.

Timing matters as much as material. Work frozen ground and you trap moisture; work it wet and you work it twice.

Materials for Monticello Projects

Paths and garden walks are the job where the small sizes earn their place, and fines and screenings are what make them walkable.

Lime Screenings are crushed limestone fines, the standard bedding layer in Illinois. They bed pavers and flagstone, top a compacted base, and backfill around pipe.

CA-6 is the Illinois base term, also called CA6 or 3/4 dense grade. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, used for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

Where the material must drain instead of hold, use clean washed stone. CA-7 is 1 inch clean stone, and 3/4" Crushed Stone, sold locally as CA-11, is the 3/4 inch size.

Both bed pipe, feed drainage trenches and sit under concrete flatwork. CA-16 Chips are the 3/8 inch limestone chips for permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks.

Coarse washed sand is torpedo sand here, and it levels and beds as well as mixing into concrete. Mason sand is the finer clean sand for brick and block mortar, paver joints and play areas.

Delivery to Monticello and the Surrounding Area

Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and every product page has a calculator for sizing the load. Decide which unit you need before you order.

You order online, pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load in one pile at the site. Have the spot clear and reachable so the pile lands where it is useful.

Delivery covers Monticello and the rest of Piatt County, including Bement, Cerro Gordo, Mansfield, Hammond and De Land. State the material and the quantity on the order and the truck brings it.

Questions from Monticello Buyers

What should I have ready when the truck arrives?

Have the drop spot clear, level enough for a truck, and open to the street. Mark nothing and direct no one; the driver tips the load in one pile and leaves.

Overhead lines, low branches and soft ground all stop a truck, so check the route in before the delivery date. If the pile needs to sit off the roadway, make sure the ground under it is firm.

What is the best base under pavers in Monticello?

CA-6 is the base course in this market, placed over ground that drains and compacted before bedding. Lime screenings go on top as the bedding layer, since the fines let you screed a level surface and lock the pavers.

Where the subsoil holds water, put clean washed stone such as CA-7 or CA-11 below the CA-6 so moisture has somewhere to go.

Order Your Path Material for Monticello

Start with the quantity. Each product page has a calculator, so you can size the load in tons or yards before you check out.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, lime screenings, washed stone, sand, soil and mulch across Monticello and Piatt County.

Pick your material and your delivery date, and place the order online.