Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Taylorville, IL

If you are pricing gravel and aggregate delivery in Taylorville, IL, the first question is usually what goes under the slab, the pad or the drive. Illinois Rock Supply sells bulk material by the ton, and CA-6, also called road base, is the Illinois base course for driveways, parking pads and building pads.

Taylorville sits on the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, where deep dark silt loam covers dense clay. That ground shapes what you order.

Delivery to Taylorville 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 checkout, and you pick a delivery date there.

A dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. That is the whole of it, so plan where the pile lands before the truck arrives.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers across Taylorville and Christian County, including Pana, Edinburg, Assumption, Morrisonville and Owaneco. Bulk loads go to driveways, building pads, trench lines and garden beds.

Materials for Taylorville Projects

Raising grade is the job that decides everything above it. Fill dirt builds up the pad, then CA-6 goes over it as the compacted base for a drive, a shed floor or a garage slab.

CA-6 is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

Order it at CA-6.

Clean washed stone is the other half of the work. CA-7 and CA-11 are the 3/4 inch to 1 inch washed sizes for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and concrete flatwork.

CA-16 chips are the 3/8 inch size for drainage around tanks and for topping a compacted base. For a driveway that needs a fresh surface over an existing base, Driveway Gravel is the surfacing layer.

Lime screenings bed pavers and flagstone and backfill around pipe. Torpedo sand, the coarse washed sand Illinois yards sell, goes into concrete and leveling.

Mason sand is the finer clean sand for mortar and paver joints. Order screenings at Lime Screenings and the coarse sand at Washed Sand.

For a drain or a French drain, clean stone is what you want, not a fines-bearing base. CA-7, CA-11 and Drain Rock all move water.

RipRap armors a culvert outlet or a pond edge.

Ground and Conditions in Taylorville

The Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois is flat ground over dense clay subsoil with almost no natural fall. Water stands rather than runs after heavy rain.

That matters under a pad. Silt loam over clay holds moisture, so an under-built base softens and shifts instead of shedding water sideways.

Bare silt loam also sheets and gullies where yard and field runoff concentrates. A clean stone drainage layer and a properly raised grade send that water somewhere other than your base.

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.

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 runs about 36 inches through most of central and eastern Illinois, and the local building department sets the figure that applies to your job.

Order CA-6 and Base Material for Taylorville

CA-6 is the Illinois base course, and it is where a driveway, a building pad or a shed floor starts. Fill dirt raises the grade first, then CA-6 goes over it.

Order online by the ton or the yard, choose your delivery date, and Illinois Rock Supply tips the load on your Taylorville site.