CA-6, Stone and Soil Delivery in Palmer, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Palmer, IL. This is flat Grand Prairie ground with dense clay under it, so water stands after a heavy rain instead of running off.

CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, is the base material that answers most of that. Order it online and a dump truck tips it on your site.

Materials for Palmer Projects

Standing water is the problem here, so washed stone does the heavy lifting. Clean stone has no fines to hold moisture, which is why it belongs in French drains, drywells and downspout runs.

Start coarse and work down. Each size has a job, and mixing them up wastes material.

• CA-7 is 1 inch clean washed stone. Use it for drainage trenches, French drains and bedding under pipe.
• 3/4" Crushed Stone, sold locally as CA-11, is the 3/4 inch clean stone for bedding, drainage and concrete flatwork.
• CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch chips for permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks.
• Lime Screenings are the crushed limestone fines that bed pavers and flagstone and backfill around pipe.
• CA-6 is the dense graded base for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

For a drywell or a downspout run, clean stone is the whole point. Fines clog and stop draining, so keep CA-7 and CA-11 out of anything that has to move water.

Sand and soil round out a project. Torpedo sand, sold as Washed Sand, is the coarse washed sand for concrete and leveling.

Top Soil covers lawns and bed prep, and Shredded Mulch holds moisture in beds through a dry Illinois summer.

Delivery to Palmer and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick a delivery date at checkout. Illinois Rock Supply covers Palmer and the rest of Christian County, including Taylorville, Pana, Edinburg, Assumption and Morrisonville.

Choose your quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you need to size the load before you order.

A dump truck tips the material in one pile on your site. Everything after that is yours to move, so pick a spot that keeps the pile out of the way.

Ground and Conditions in Palmer

Base, driveway and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late fall. The ground is slow to dry in a wet spring and frozen solid through the winter.

That window shapes when you order. Across the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, the subsoil is dense clay and the ground has almost no natural fall.

Water stands rather than runs. A clean stone drainage layer under a CA-6 base gives that water somewhere to go instead of sitting against the material.

Cold winters bring repeated freeze and thaw, and frost heave shows up in gravel drives and walks each spring. The local building department sets the footing depth for anything structural.

Bare silt loam also washes. Sheet erosion moves it off exposed ground, and runoff concentrates into gullies where it crosses a yard or a field edge.

Questions About Gravel in Palmer

Do you deliver CA-6 to Palmer, IL?

Yes. Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6 to Palmer and across Christian County, including Taylorville, Pana, Edinburg, Assumption and Morrisonville.

You order online, choose your 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.

What gravel is best for a driveway in Palmer?

CA-6 is the standard base for a driveway here. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, so it compacts into a firm surface for a drive, a parking pad or a shed base.

Top an existing drive with driveway gravel if the base underneath is already sound and holding.

Order CA-6 and Washed Stone in Palmer

Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, washed stone, sand, topsoil and mulch to Palmer and the rest of Christian County. Pick your material, size the load on the calculator, and choose a delivery date at checkout.

Place your order online and a truck brings it to your site.