Additional services

Cleaning and repair

Granite outlasts everyone who chooses it, but time will leave its mark. Most of what happens to a stone over twenty years is normal and fixable.

Ground settles, and a stone that was level in 1998 can lean by now. Sprinklers leave mineral deposits. Trees drop sap, and lichen takes hold on the shaded side. Lettering loses its paint or gold leaf and stops reading clearly, and we can touch both back up. It is what weather and time do to stone left outdoors.

A husband and wife’s headstones side by side, hers newly cleaned — A husband and wife’s stones, side by side. We cleaned hers first and took this before starting on his.

What we do

Cleaning

Mineral deposits, sap and lichen taken off the stone.

Resetting and repair

A stone that has settled or leaned is lifted and set level again.

Lettering

Paint and gold leaf restored so the names read clearly from a distance again.