Bulk Aggregates for Patios in North Aurora, IL

Illinois Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in North Aurora, IL to two kinds of buyers: contractors working through a schedule and homeowners building a patio or pad themselves. CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone this market calls road base, is where most hard surfaces start.

The ground here holds water rather than taking it, so what you put under a patio matters as much as what you see on top.

Ground and Conditions in North Aurora

Across the Chicago lake plain and the northeastern moraines, heavy silt and clay sit under a lot of flat ground. Water sheds off that clay instead of soaking in, and summer downpours overwhelm yard grades and storm sewers in built-up areas.

A paver patio or concrete flatwork that loses its bedding layer shows it fast. Edges settle, joints open, and the surface rocks underfoot after a wet stretch.

The usual cause is a base course that never had enough fines to bind and compact. CA-6 keeps those fines in, so it knits into a firm layer instead of shifting under the load.

Long cold winters and many freeze and thaw cycles lift drives, walks and slabs every spring. Base, driveway and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late fall, and frozen ground stops compaction through the winter.

Materials for North Aurora Projects

Bedding under pavers and flatwork is the layer that decides how a patio ages, so start there. CA-6 is the Illinois base material: dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, used for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

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

On top of a compacted base, the bedding layer needs to be fine and even. Lime Screenings are crushed limestone fines, the Chicago area name for screenings and the standard bedding layer for pavers and flagstone here.

They also backfill around pipe.

Where water has to move instead of sit, clean washed stone does the work. CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, used for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches, French drains and concrete flatwork, and 3/4" Crushed Stone is the CA-11 size sold alongside it.

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

Sand, soil and mulch round out a patio project. Washed Sand is the coarse torpedo sand Illinois yards sell for concrete and leveling, and Top Soil handles the lawn and bed work that follows.

Delivery to North Aurora and the Surrounding Area

You order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator, and that is the place to size a load before checkout.

Pick a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the load in one pile on site. North Aurora sits in Kane County, and delivery reaches Aurora, Elgin, Dundee, Carpentersville and St.

Charles as well.

Order Your Patio Material for North Aurora

Start with the calculator on the product page, then set your quantity in tons or yards. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregate across North Aurora and Kane County, and a dump truck tips your load on site on the date you choose at checkout.