Lime Screenings for Patios in Silvis, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Silvis, IL, from CA-6 road base to lime screenings and washed sand. If you are bedding pavers, setting flatwork or building up a drive, the material you put down first decides how the finished surface holds up.

Silvis sits in Rock Island County, on the western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border, where deep silty ground sheds water fast on slopes and holds it in the flats.

Ground and Conditions in Silvis

A thin base is what you notice first on a patio or walk here. The pavers rock, joints open, and the surface dips in the same spots after every wet stretch.

The cause is usually ground that moves under a bedding layer that was never deep enough to bridge it. Loess soil drains quickly on a slope and holds moisture in level ground, so a shallow base loses support unevenly.

Freeze and thaw across this part of the state lifts drives and walks each spring. Frost depth in this region runs about 36 to 40 inches, a figure the local building department sets for footings rather than a depth to excavate for gravel.

Work in this region runs from the spring thaw into late fall. Sites in low ground wait out spring high water, so the window for a base and bedding job is worth planning around.

Materials for Silvis Projects

Bedding is where a paver patio, flagstone walk or concrete slab is won or lost. The layer directly under the surface has to be fine enough to level against and stable enough to stay put, and Illinois yards sell two materials for that job.

Lime Screenings are crushed limestone fines, the standard bedding layer in Illinois for pavers and flagstone and a common backfill around pipe. Spread and leveled, they give a surface you can set stone into without the voids that make a paver rock.

Under a slab or a heavier patio, CA-6 is the base course that carries the load. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, and it is what Illinois contractors mean by road base.

Clean stone handles the water. CA-7 and CA-11 are washed stone with no fines, for drainage trenches, French drains and bedding under pipe.

Fines-bearing material holds water; clean stone lets it pass.

Delivery to Silvis and the Surrounding Area

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

A dump truck tips the load in one pile at the address you give. Have the spot clear before it arrives, because the material stays where it lands and nothing gets moved for you.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers across Rock Island County, including Moline, Rock Island, East Moline, Milan and Coal Valley.

Order Bedding and Base Material for Your Silvis Project

Measure your patio, walk or drive, then use the calculator on the product page to work out your quantities by the ton or yard. Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, lime screenings, clean stone, sand and topsoil to Silvis and Rock Island County.

Choose your material and place the order online.