Lime Screenings for Patios in Olive Branch, IL

Illinois Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Olive Branch, IL, with CA-6 road base leading the list for drives and pads. This is flat bottomland ground, so the base under a patio or walkway carries the load.

Bedding material is where a paver or slab job holds or sinks. Lime screenings and the clean CA stones below do that work.

Ground and Conditions in Olive Branch

Across the Cairo lowland and the southern river bottoms, the ground is deep silt, sand and clay laid down by the rivers. Sand ridges and old channel scars sit under a high water table.

That water is the whole story. This is the lowest ground in the state, sitting behind levees and drainage districts, and heavy rain has nowhere to go.

For a paver patio, a thin base fails first at the edges, where soft ground lets the surface rock and the joints open. The fix is enough compacted base and the right bedding layer on top of it.

Bedding does the leveling. Lime screenings, the crushed limestone fines Illinois yards sell, give pavers and flagstone a surface that packs flat and stays put.

Runoff across soft silty ground also cuts wherever it concentrates. Where a downspout or a slope sends water at a bed or a walk, a clean stone drainage layer moves it instead of letting it sit.

River stages set the calendar here. Spring and early summer high water can shut bottomland sites for weeks, so plan the work around it.

Winters are the mildest in Illinois, with limited freeze and thaw. Frost depth in the far south runs about 30 inches, and the local building department sets the figure that applies to your job.

Materials for Olive Branch Projects

CA-6 is the base material for this part of Illinois. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, and it compacts into a firm layer under a patio, a drive or a shed pad.

CA-6 also works as trench backfill and for parking pads.

On top of that base, the bedding layer is what a paver or flatwork job rests on. Lime Screenings bed pavers and flagstone, and they backfill around pipe.

Clean washed stone handles the water. CA-7 is 1 inch clean stone with no fines, 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 that goes with CA-7 for bedding, drainage and concrete work.

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

Washed Sand is torpedo sand, the coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding. Mason Sand is the finer clean sand for brick and block mortar and paver joints.

Delivery to Olive Branch 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 then tips the load on your site.

Each product page has a calculator, and it is the fastest way to size a load. Order CA-6 for the base, then the bedding material that sits on it.

Olive Branch sits in Alexander County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Cairo, Tamms, Thebes, McClure and Miller City.

Questions About Gravel and Base Material

What gravel is best for a driveway in Olive Branch?

CA-6 is the base for a drive here. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, so it compacts into a firm surface over soft bottomland ground.

For the top layer, Driveway Gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops a compacted base.

How much material will my project need?

That depends on the area you are covering and the base you are building, and the quantity is ordered by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator, so use it to size the load rather than guessing at it.

Order Bedding and Base Material

Start with the calculator on the product page to size your quantity, then choose a delivery date at checkout. Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, lime screenings, CA-7, CA-11 and CA-16 chips to Olive Branch and across Alexander County.

Place your order online and a truck will tip it on site.