Lime Screenings for Patios in Prairie City, IL

If you are building a patio, laying a walkway, or setting a shed pad, you need gravel and aggregate delivery in Prairie City, IL that matches the job. Illinois Rock Supply sells bulk material online for delivery across McDonough County.

Every paver and slab job starts with the right base and bedding. That means CA-6, also called road base, plus lime screenings for the setting layer.

Ground and Conditions in Prairie City

Across the Western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border, deep loess sits over older drift on rolling ground. Loess sheds water fast on slopes and holds it in the flats, so a thin base shows its weak spots after a wet spring.

You see it as ruts under a patio edge, a slab corner that drops, or a walk that rocks when the ground freezes and thaws. The fix is a base built thick enough to bridge soft spots and a bedding layer that stays put.

Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall here, a little longer than upstate. Frost still lifts drives and walks each spring, so plan your base before the ground locks up.

Materials for Prairie City Projects

Bedding is where a paver patio or a concrete slab succeeds or fails. Lime screenings, also called limestone screenings or stone dust, are crushed limestone fines.

They give you a fine, packable setting layer under pavers and flagstone, and they work as backfill around pipe.

Under that bedding you want CA-6, the Illinois base material. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

Use it for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases, and trench backfill.

Around the edges of flatwork and drainage runs, clean washed stone does the work that fines cannot. CA-7, also called #57 stone or 1 inch clean stone, has no fines and drains freely.

It beds pipe, fills drainage trenches and French drains, and sits under concrete flatwork.

For a finer clean stone, CA-16 chips are 3/8 inch limestone chips. They bed permeable pavers, drain around tanks, and top a compacted base.

Torpedo sand, also called concrete sand or washed sand, is the coarse washed sand for concrete and leveling.

For the surface itself, driveway gravel tops a compacted base, and walkway gravel gives paths a finer, walkable finish. Around beds and borders, river gravel and large river rock handle decorative work and downspout splash areas.

Delivery to Prairie City and the Surrounding Area

Ordering is online. You choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load on site in one pile.

Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load. If you are unsure between tons and yards, that is the place to start before you order.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk material across McDonough County, including Macomb, Bushnell, Colchester, Blandinsville and Industry. Prairie City sits in the county, and delivery covers the surrounding area.

Order Bedding and Base Material for Your Prairie City Project

Start with the calculator on the product page, then order by the ton or the yard. Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, lime screenings, clean stone and sand to Prairie City and across McDonough County.

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