Lime Screenings for Patios in Washburn, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Washburn, IL for two kinds of buyers: contractors building pads and drives, and homeowners bedding a patio or walk. CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, is the base material most of that work starts from.

This is flat Grand Prairie till plain ground. Water stands after heavy rain instead of running off, so what goes under a patio matters as much as what sits on top.

Ground and Conditions in Washburn

Under a thin base on this ground, the failure shows up as settling. A patio or walk drops at one corner, joints open, and water finds the low spot every time it rains.

The cause is usually the same. Dense clay subsoil beneath the Grand Prairie till plain holds water, and almost no natural fall moves it away.

The fix is a base that is thick enough and well drained, with a bedding layer that stays put. That is where lime screenings earn their place.

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 base and paver job around that window matters.

Cold winters bring 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.

Materials for Washburn Projects

Bedding is the layer that decides whether a patio stays flat. Lime screenings, the crushed limestone fines Illinois yards also call limestone screenings or stone dust, are the standard bedding layer here.

They pack tight under pavers and flagstone and hold a level surface.

Below the bedding, the base carries the load. CA-6 is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

Drainage needs clean stone, not fines. CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, used for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches, French drains and concrete flatwork.

3/4" Crushed Stone is the CA-11 size sold alongside it for the same work.

For the tightest bedding, CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch limestone chips, used for permeable paver bedding, drainage around tanks and topping a compacted base.

Concrete and leveling take sand. Washed Sand, which Illinois yards call torpedo sand, is the coarse washed sand for concrete and bedding.

Delivery to Washburn and the Surrounding Area

You order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator, and it is the simplest way to size a load before you check out.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile at the address you give at checkout. From there the material is yours to move.

Washburn sits in Woodford County, and delivery reaches the surrounding towns, including Eureka, Metamora, El Paso, Roanoke and Minonk.

Order Bedding and Base Material in Washburn

Start with the calculator on the product page to settle your quantity, then place the order online and pick your delivery date. Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, lime screenings, clean stone and sand across Washburn and Woodford County.