Lime Screenings for Patios in Rio, IL

If you are planning a patio, a paver walk or a concrete pad, the material under it decides how the surface holds up. Illinois Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Rio, IL, and lime screenings are the bedding layer most flatwork starts on here.

CA-6, also called road base, is the compacted base that goes below the bedding. This part of Illinois sits on deep loess over older drift, so the ground under your project matters as much as what you put on top of it.

Ground and Conditions in Rio

Across the Western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border, loess sheds water fast on slopes and holds it in the flats. A thin base shows that fast.

The surface rocks, the joints open, and the pavers settle out of line.

The fix is a base that carries the load and a bedding layer that stays put. CA-6 packs into a firm, tight course with the fines left in, so it holds its shape under a patio or a drive.

Lime screenings, also called limestone screenings, are the standard bedding layer in Illinois. The crushed limestone fines bed pavers and flagstone and lock them into a level surface.

Work here runs from the spring thaw into late fall, a little longer than upstate. Cold winters still bring freeze and thaw, and frost lifts drives and walks each spring.

Materials for Rio Projects

Start with the bedding. Lime screenings give you a fine, workable layer under pavers, flagstone and concrete flatwork.

They also backfill around pipe, where a soft, fine material will not nick the wall.

Below the bedding goes CA-6, the Illinois base material. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, and it builds driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

Where water has to move instead of sit, use clean washed stone. CA-7 is 1 inch clean stone 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 pairs with CA-7 for the same work.

For tight bedding and paver joints, CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch limestone chips. They also bed permeable pavers and drain around tanks.

Sand has its own jobs. Washed Sand, which yards here call torpedo sand, is coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding.

Mason Sand is the finer clean sand for brick and block mortar, paver joints, sandboxes and volleyball courts.

Delivery to Rio and the Surrounding Area

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load before you commit.

A dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. Rio sits in Knox County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Galesburg, Abingdon, Knoxville, Wataga and Oneida.

Order Bedding and Base Material for Your Rio Project

Size your load with the calculator on the product page, then order online by the ton or the yard for delivery in Rio. For bedding a patio, building a driveway base or running a drainage trench, Illinois Rock Supply delivers the material to your site.