Grave sites cleaning, repair and maintenance

Before cleaning and after it.

Nothing is forever in this world. When people buy and put headstones, install fences and gates they want marble stones, for example, to be as white as when originally purchased – and this is a tragic mistake. Weather changes such as temperature and humidity; natural processes and human activities like dirt from the soil, environmental pollution, rain and wind, flooding, vandalism, biological growth created by the dense foliage can cause serious damage to the grave. That’s why you must clean the stones every few months, remove any loose debris or plant life, repair and paint broken, rotten and  corroded parts of grave fences, gates, benches. Signs on grave stones or lettering also do not last forever and needs to be redone from time to time.

So if you want to keep the grave in good condition, you should consider preservation and restoration work.

Preservation (or conservation) attempts to keep a stone from deteriorating further, stabilizing it, and ensuring that it is there for future generations. No conservator will claim to be able to work on every type of material or every monument. There are also some critical considerations in competent preservation or conservation work:

1.      Preservation must ensure careful planning

2.      Expedient or easy solutions often compound the problem

3.      Actions should be the least intrusive

4.      Treatments should respect the original fabric

5.      Actions should be, where possible, reversible

All work must be carefully documented in case future work becomes necessary.

Many families today live geographically far away from places, where their family members, relatives or friends were buried. In such cases you can ask your relatives, who lives nearby the grave, to make some cleaning and restoration work at the grave yard or consider hiring Grave Care Service Providers.

Below you can find list of Grave Care and Maintenance Companies, which can do all types of work for you.   

Examples of their work types: headstone cleaning, repairs and maintenance to family graves with after care service. Services include the cleaning, repair, maintenance and restoration of cemetery gravestones, headstones and grave markers. Gravesites Caregivers offers a selection of services, providing flower arrangements, keeping headstones free of debris, basic weed trimming, based on your needs and desires.

Full-service Restoration Company today for all your Cemetery, Headstone, Bronze Plaque, Statue and Historical Memorial Marker and Wall Restoration Service needs across the USA
 
       

New Zealand 

Cemetery Cleaners Headstone cleaning and relettering

http://www.cemeterycleaners.co.nz/

  http://www.mwfd.co.nz/

http://www.ctgravestones.com/Conservation/cleaning.htm

                     http://www.decraart.co.nz/Restoration++Renovation.html

USA and Canada

 

http://www.gravecareservices.com/

http://www.beyondthegravestone.com/

   https://www.troost.com/cleaning_and_maintenance_services

http://www.marcelasgravecare.com/services.html

        http://saveagrave.net/gravesitecaregivers

        http://niagaragravecareservice.ca/

      http://americangravegroomers.com/

http://www.lovingcaregravesitemaintenance.com/

United Kingdom

 

UK directory featuring over 120 Grave Care Services with photos, ratings and reviews, special offers and more

http://www.freeindex.co.uk/categories/entertainment_and_lifestyle/funeral_directors/grave_care/

   http://www.gravecaregardening.co.uk/

            http://www.funeralinspirations.co.uk/

Grave Care Scotland for Graveside and Gravestone Cleaning Services and Resting Place Maintenance for Scottish, UK and Overseas families.

                                                http://www.gravecarescotland.com/

      http://www.pilgrimservices.co.uk/

      http://www.grave-care-services.co.uk/

 

Ireland 

 

        http://www.graveconcernireland.com/

 

Australia 

 

Gravesite Maintenance South Australia

http://www.gravesite-maintenance-south-australia.businessfoundonline.com.au/

               http://www.gravekeepers.com.au/

       https://www.gravemaids.com.au/

              http://www1.waverley.nsw.gov.au/cemetery/monuments.htm

           

http://www.rookwoodjewishcemetery.com.au/page/monumental-care

Some conservation work at the grave you can do yourself like, for example, cleaning headstones and panting fence. But in more serious cases, which involve headstones repairs, relettering, securing of original elements, resetting tilted markers, leveling a monument, resetting badly broken markers you will need specialists help.

All cemeteries big and small ones should have contractors for cleaning and restoration grave sites and will provide you a list of local tradesmen or companies to carry out all required maintenance and repair work. You can also sign a contract on periodic ones a month or ones a year cleaning and maintenance of your loved ones last home.

Reference:

 

   chicora.org/