Bulk Aggregates for Patios in Savoy, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Savoy, IL for two kinds of buyers: contractors who need the right gradation on site and homeowners building a patio or pad behind the house. CA-6 is the base most of that work starts from here.

This is flat Grand Prairie ground with heavy clay under it, so what you put under a patio matters as much as what you put on top.

Ground and Conditions in Savoy

Across the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, the ground is flat and the subsoil is dense clay. Water stands rather than runs after a heavy rain.

That is where a thin base shows itself first. A patio set on too little material pumps, shifts and drops at the corners after a wet spring, because the water has nowhere to go and the clay will not take it.

The fix is a base course that carries the load and a bedding layer that drains. CA-6 packs into a tight, load-bearing layer.

Clean stone under and around the edges gives standing water somewhere to move.

Work here runs from the spring thaw into late fall. Ground is slow to dry in a wet spring and frozen solid through winter, so timing a patio build around the season is normal.

Central and eastern Illinois sees repeated freeze and thaw, and frost heave shows up in gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs each spring. Frost depth is about 36 inches through most of central and eastern Illinois; the local building department sets the figure that applies to your permit.

Materials for Savoy Projects

A patio in Savoy lives or dies on its bedding. Get that layer right and the surface stays flat for years.

Lime Screenings are the standard bedding layer in Illinois, a crushed limestone fine that levels under pavers and flagstone and compacts to a firm, uniform plane. They also backfill around pipe.

CA-16 Chips are the 3/8 inch washed chips used for permeable paver bedding, drainage around tanks and topping a compacted base. No fines, so water passes through.

CA-6, also called road base or 3/4 dense grade, is the Illinois base material: dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in. It builds the structural layer under a patio, a driveway, a parking pad or a garage slab, and it backfills trenches.

For drainage under and around flatwork, use clean washed stone. CA-7 is the 1 inch clean stone for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains.

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone Illinois yards carry alongside it for concrete work and bedding.

Washed Sand, which yards here call torpedo sand, is the coarse washed sand for concrete and leveling. Mason Sand is the finer clean sand for paver joints and mortar.

Delivery to Savoy 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 tips the load on site as one pile.

Sizing the load is the part worth pausing on. Every product page has a calculator, and it is the quickest way to turn your project into a quantity before you order.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers across Savoy and the rest of Champaign County, including Champaign, Urbana, Rantoul, Mahomet and St. Joseph.

Get Your Savoy Project Sized and Ordered

Start with the calculator on the product page for the material you need, and let it set your quantity before you check out. For bedding pavers, building a base for a patio or topping a drive, Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregate to Savoy and the surrounding Champaign County area.

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