Lime Screenings for Pathways in St. Francisville, IL

If you are planning a garden path, a paver walk or a new driveway, Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in St. Francisville, IL.

The ground here sits on tight claypan soil, so the material you put on top does the work.

Most path projects start with lime screenings for the bedding layer and CA-6, the local road base, under anything that carries a truck.

Ground and Conditions in St. Francisville

Across the Southern till plain and claypan country, the claypan subsoil sits close to the surface. Water cannot move down through it, so winter and spring rain perches on top and the ground stays saturated for weeks.

When that happens under a thin base, the stone pumps under traffic and the surface rutts. The fix is a real base course of CA-6, placed so the load spreads instead of punching into soft clay.

A path does not need that kind of depth, but it does need a bedding layer that will not wash out. Lime screenings pack into a firm, flat surface that stays put.

The season here runs longer than upstate at both ends, but a wet winter and spring keep sites soft well into April. Late summer and fall are the reliable windows for grading and base work.

Winters are shorter than in northern Illinois, but frequent freeze and thaw swings work on saturated clay and heave drives and walks. Frost depth in this part of the state runs around 30 to 36 inches, though the local building department sets the figure it uses.

Materials for St. Francisville Projects

Fines and screenings carry path and walkway work here. They bed pavers, flagstone and edging, and they leave a firm surface underfoot where rounded gravel would roll.

Lime Screenings are crushed limestone fines, also called screenings or stone dust. Use them as the bedding layer under pavers and flagstone and as backfill around pipe.

For a finished walk that is not under pavers, walkway gravel gives you a finer, walkable surface for paths and garden walks.

Under anything with weight, CA-6 is the base. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

Where water has to move, use clean washed stone instead. CA-7 is washed 1 inch clean stone for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains.

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, does the same work in a 3/4 inch size.

Smaller chips finish tight spots. CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch limestone chips for permeable paver bedding, drainage around tanks and topping a compacted base.

For sand and soil, Washed Sand (torpedo sand locally) is the coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding. Top Soil covers lawns, grading and bed prep, and it is sold screened.

Delivery to St. Francisville 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 then tips the load on site in one pile, so it helps to know where you want that pile before the truck arrives.

We deliver across St. Francisville and Lawrence County, including Lawrenceville, Sumner and Bridgeport.

Questions About Stone and Base Work

What should I have ready when the truck arrives?

Have the drop spot clear and reachable, with no low wires, soft ground or parked vehicles in the way. The driver tips the load in one pile and does not spread it, so pick a spot you can work from.

Keep gates wide enough for a dump truck and mark anything you do not want driven over.

What is the best base under pavers in St. Francisville?

CA-6 is the base under pavers here, because the claypan subsoil stays wet and a fines-bearing crushed limestone spreads the load instead of letting it punch through. Lime screenings go on top as the bedding layer that the pavers actually sit in.

Both are stocked in the sizes this ground calls for.

Order Your Path Material for St. Francisville

Start with the quantity: use the calculator on any product page to work out how much you need, then choose your delivery date at checkout. Whether it is lime screenings for a walkway or CA-6 for a drive, Illinois Rock Supply delivers it to your site in St.

Francisville.