Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Speer, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Speer, IL, and the ground here shapes what you need. Deep prairie silt loam sits over dense clay till across this part of Stark County, and it stays soft after a wet spring.

That is why CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, is the base material to start from. It is also called road base or 3/4 dense grade, and it builds the drive, pad or trench you are working on.

Delivery to Speer and the Surrounding Area

You order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout.

Choose a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the material on site in one pile. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk loads to Speer and to the rest of Stark County, including Wyoming, Toulon, Bradford and La Fayette.

Materials for Speer Projects

Raising grade and building pads is the work that comes first on a lot here. Fill dirt is bulk fill for lifting a low spot or bringing a pad up to level before anything else goes down.

Once the grade is where you want it, CA-6 goes on top as the compacted base for a driveway, parking pad or shed floor. It is the Illinois base material.

For a patio or a paver walk, lime screenings bed the pavers and backfill around pipe. The same fines make a firm setting layer under flagstone.

For drainage, CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, used for bedding under pipe, French drains and concrete flatwork. CA-11 is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone that Illinois yards sell alongside it for the same kind of work.

Around a tank, in permeable paver bedding, or as a topping over a compacted base, CA-16 chips do the job at 3/8 inch. Torpedo sand is the coarse washed sand for concrete and leveling, and mason sand is the finer clean sand for mortar and paver joints.

Ground and Conditions in Speer

This is the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, some of the flattest ground in the country. Under the dark silt loam is dense clay subsoil with almost no natural fall.

Water stands rather than runs after heavy rain, which is why so much farmland around here is tile drained. A pad or drive built on that clay without a proper base course will move and rut.

Bare silt loam also sheets off in a heavy storm, and runoff concentrates into gullies where it leaves a field or a yard. A clean stone drainage layer under a base keeps water from sitting against the fines.

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 winter, so timing matters as much as material.

Questions About Material in Speer

What is the best base under pavers in Speer?

CA-6 is the compacted base course under a paver patio or walk, and lime screenings are the bedding layer the pavers sit in. The screenings are crushed limestone fines, also called stone dust, and they give you a firm, level setting bed.

Both work with the silt loam and clay till under this part of Stark County.

Do you supply contractors working in Speer?

Yes. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregate by the ton or by the yard to job sites in Speer and across Stark County, including Wyoming, Toulon, Bradford and La Fayette.

You order online, pick a quantity, choose a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load on site.

Order CA-6 and Base Material for Your Speer Project

CA-6 is the Illinois base material for drives, pads and trench backfill, and it is the one to start with when you are raising grade in Speer. Pair it with lime screenings for bedding or CA-7 for drainage.

Order online by the ton or yard and pick your delivery date at checkout.