Cemetery Services
Cemetery Services
Cemetery Repair & Maintenance
Engravinghouse provides a range of cemetery, grave repair, maintenance and cleaning services. These services provide multiple ways of defining and preserving a gravesite for a number of years. Our services include coping and chips, headstone repair, headstone cleaning, marker repair and marker cleaning. We restore and conserve gravesites, headstones, markers and monuments to ensure their longevity and presentation. Our teams evaluates the best course of action in repairing, maintenance and conservation on all gravesites.
Cemetery Coping & Chips
Coping And Chip Services
Coping refers to the stone walls surrounding a gravesite while chip refers to the stone “chips” used to cover the grave. Along with a conventional monument or headstone, coping and chips provides a sophisticated way of defining and preserving a gravesite for a number of years.
Functional Beauty
Add functional beauty to any memorial with granite or marble coping and chips around individual or multiple gravesites. Madison Monuments can manufacture and install coping and chips to match any color of stone. Our dedicated team has the tools and resources to produce custom sized coping for every size grave plot, with chips to match.
Coping And Chipping For Cemetery Plots
Engraving House sells, designs, builds, delivers, and installs granite memorial benches, graveside benches, cremation benches, gravestone benches, bench headstones, and cemetery bench monuments. We invite you to be an integral part of every step of the process to ensure your loved one’s resting place is created exactly to your specifications.
Headstone Repair Services
Headstone Repair
Depending on the layout and terrain of a cemetery, monuments can lean over time causing cracks or breaking. Additionally, age and corrosion have significant effects on all types of headstone materials. From grave markers to upright monuments and accessories, we can help you remember your loved one and stay within your budget.
Our Headstone Repair Services Include:
- Level Monument Base
- Level Headstone And Tombstones
- Install New Cast Slotted Bases
- Repair Headstones and Tombstones
Headstone Maintenance
With proper monument maintenance, these ancestral memorials can be preserved for many generations to come. Before a headstone or grave marker repair or cleaning, our highly-recommended team performs an evaluation to determine the best restoration technique to use. Madison Monuments will slow the deterioration process and preserve the monument. Each headstone is different and will require a specific plan of action for repair.
Headstone Restoration
Broken headstones that need to be cleaned and repaired do occasionally happen. Madison Monuments utilizes advanced stabilization techniques during headstone and gravestone repair. These techniques retain the structural integrity of a monument with minimal interference to its original form.
Marker Repair Services
Marker Repair Services
Broken grave markers that need to be cleaned and repaired do occasionally happen. Madison Monuments utilizes advanced stabilization techniques gravestone repair. These techniques help to retain the structural integrity of a monument with minimal interference to its original form. We understand how important it is to carefully maintain and repair your loved one’s memorial.
Memorial Marker Services Include:
- Level Grave Marker and it’s Base
- Install New Cast Slotted Bases
- Repair And Reset Broken or Tilted Grave Markers
Marker Maintenance
With proper monument maintenance, these ancestral artifacts can be preserved for many generations to come. Before a grave marker or headstone is repaired or cleaned, our team performs an evaluation to determine the best restoration technique to use. Our goal is to slow the deterioration process and preserve the monument. Each gravestone is different and will require a specific plan of action for repair.
Marker Repair Services
Depending on the layout and terrain of a cemetery, grave markers can shift over time causing cracks or breaking. This is most common in historic cemeteries as age and corrosion have significant effects on all types of gravestone materials. This process is often referred to as delamination. We work to slow the rate of delamination while restoring the elegant beauty of your loved one’s resting place.
Headstone Cleaning Services
Head Stone Cleaning Services
Engraving House understands how important it is to ensure your family member’s resting place remains clean and beautiful. When they notice the natural stone getting dingy, many people attempt to clean the stone themselves. Unfortunately, this can lead to more harm than good. The wrong cleaning agents can cause significant damage to the surface of the stone. We do not use harsh chemicals when cleaning gravestones and markers and work to conserve, rather than replace memorials, and monuments in historic cemeteries.
Cleaning Gravestones
It is important that cemetery managers ensure headstones are regularly cleaned. Weather, plant and animal life, and other outdoor elements present a particular challenge to many types of headstones. Many kinds of plants can cause moisture to be trapped on and under the monument’s surface, contributing to the deterioration of the stone. Moisture can then lead to biological growth such as algae, fungi, lichen, and mold. This kind of organic growth can dissolve concrete, limestone, marble, and sandstone with acid secretions.
Head Stone Cleaning & Maintenance
Before beginning the headstone cleaning process, Engraving House’s expert team performs an evaluation of the memorial. This evaluation determines the type of stone and the proper cleaning method and cleaning products to be used. Non-Ionic soaps such as D/2 biological solution, paired with clean water and soft-bristled brushes, are most commonly used by headstone cleaning professionals.
Marker Cleaning Services
Marker Cleaning Services
Engraving House understands how important it is to ensure your family member’s resting place remains clean and beautiful. When they notice the natural stone getting dingy, many people attempt to clean the grave marker themselves. Unfortunately, this can lead to more harm than good. The wrong cleaning agents can cause significant damage to the surface of the stone.
Grave Marker Maintenance
It is important that cemetery managers ensure memorials are regularly cleaned. Weather, plant and animal life, and other outdoor elements present a particular challenge to grave markers. Different kinds of plants can cause moisture to be trapped on and under the plaque’s surface This contributes to the overall deterioration of the monument. Moisture can then lead to biological growth such as algae, fungi, lichen, and mold. This kind of organic growth can dissolve concrete, limestone, marble, and sandstone with acid secretions.
Gravestone Cleaning Service
Before beginning the grave marker cleaning process, our team performs an evaluation of the memorial. The evaluation determines what stone the base material is and the proper cleaning method and cleaning products to be used. Commonly, a spray bottle filled with clean water and mild non-ionic soap paired with a soft-bristled brush and a specific bronze cleaning solution is used to clean grave markers.