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Honoring Memories with Dignity

At The Engraving House, we provide compassionate and respectful cemetery services to honor your loved ones. Our offerings are designed to preserve memories with the utmost care and dignity.

Cemetery Services

Cemetery Repair & Maintenance

The Engraving House offers a complete suite of cemetery, grave repair, maintenance, and cleaning services. Our goal is to both define and preserve gravesites, ensuring they remain beautiful and dignified for many years to come. We expertly restore and conserve gravesites, headstones, markers, and monuments, focusing on their longevity and presentation. Our team thoroughly evaluates each site to determine the absolute best approach for repair, maintenance, and conservation.

Coping and Chip Services

Coping refers to the elegant stone borders that enclose a gravesite, while chips are the decorative stone pieces that fill the grave area. Together with a traditional monument or headstone, coping and chips offer a sophisticated and enduring way to define and protect a loved one’s resting place for generations.

Functional Beauty

Add both functional beauty and lasting appeal to any memorial with our custom granite or marble coping and chips. We can craft and install coping and chips to perfectly complement any existing stone color. Our dedicated team has the tools and expertise to produce custom-sized coping for grave plots of all dimensions, complete with perfectly matched chips.

Enhancing Cemetery Plots

The Engraving House also specializes in the sale, design, building, delivery, and installation of granite memorial benches, including graveside benches, cremation benches, gravestone benches, and full cemetery bench monuments. We invite you to be an integral part of every step of the process, ensuring your loved one’s memorial is crafted exactly to your specifications.

Headstone Repair Services

Headstone Repair Services

Over time, headstones can shift, lean, crack, or break due to natural terrain changes, age, and environmental corrosion. From simple grave markers to grand upright monuments and accessories, we can help you preserve your loved one’s memory while staying within your budget.

Our Headstone Repair Services Include:

  • Leveling Monument Bases
  • Leveling Headstones and Tombstones
  • Installing New Cast Slotted Bases
  • Repairing Cracks and Breaks in Headstones and Tombstones

    Headstone Maintenance & Restoration

    Proper monument maintenance is crucial for preserving these cherished ancestral memorials for many generations. Before any headstone or grave marker repair or cleaning, our highly recommended team conducts a thorough evaluation to identify the best restoration technique. We are committed to slowing the deterioration process and preserving the monument. Every headstone is unique and requires a specific, tailored repair plan. We use advanced stabilization techniques during headstone and gravestone repair to maintain the monument’s structural integrity with minimal interference to its original form.

    Grave Marker Repair Services

    Grave Marker Repair Services

    Just like headstones, grave markers can shift, crack, or break over time. This is especially common in historic cemeteries where age and corrosion significantly affect all types of gravestone materials, a process often called delamination. We work diligently to slow the rate of delamination while restoring the elegant beauty of your loved one’s resting place.

    Memorial Marker Services Include:

    • Level Grave Marker and their Bases
    • Installing New Cast Slotted Bases
    • Repairing and Resetting Broken or Tilted Grave Markers

    Grave Marker Maintenance

    With proper monument maintenance, these precious historical artifacts can be preserved for many generations. Before we repair or clean a grave marker or headstone, our team performs a comprehensive evaluation to determine the most effective restoration technique. Our primary goal is to slow deterioration and ensure the monument’s preservation. Each gravestone is unique and demands a specific, personalized action plan.

    Headstone Cleaning Services

    At The Engraving House, we understand how vital it is to keep your family member’s resting place clean and beautiful. While many people attempt to clean natural stone themselves when it appears dingy, this can often cause more harm than good. Using the wrong cleaning agents can severely damage the stone’s surface. We strictly avoid harsh chemicals when cleaning gravestones and markers, focusing on conserving rather than replacing memorials and monuments, especially those in historic cemeteries.

    Headstone Cleaning Services

    Headstone Cleaning Services

    At The Engraving House, we understand how vital it is to keep your family member’s resting place clean and beautiful. While many people attempt to clean natural stone themselves when it appears dingy, this can often cause more harm than good. Using the wrong cleaning agents can severely damage the stone’s surface. We strictly avoid harsh chemicals when cleaning gravestones and markers, focusing on conserving rather than replacing memorials and monuments, especially those in historic cemeteries.

    Cleaning Gravestones

    It’s essential for cemetery managers to ensure headstones are regularly cleaned. Weather, plant and animal life, and other outdoor elements pose unique challenges to various types of headstones. Certain plants can trap moisture on and under the monument’s surface, contributing to stone deterioration. This moisture can then lead to biological growth like algae, fungi, lichen, and mold, which produce acidic secretions that can dissolve concrete, limestone, marble, and sandstone.

    Headstone Cleaning & Maintenance

    Before starting the headstone cleaning process, The Engraving House’s expert team performs a thorough evaluation of the memorial. This evaluation helps us determine the stone type and the most appropriate cleaning method and products. Our professionals most commonly use non-ionic soaps like D/2 biological solution, paired with clean water and soft-bristled brushes, to ensure a safe and effective clean.

    Grave Marker Cleaning Services

    Marker Cleaning Services

    The Engraving House understands the importance of maintaining the clean and beautiful appearance of your family member’s resting place. Many people try to clean grave markers themselves when the natural stone looks dull, but unfortunately, this can often lead to further damage if incorrect cleaning agents are used on the stone’s surface.

    Grave Marker Maintenance

    Regular cleaning of memorials is crucial for cemetery managers. Weather, plant and animal life, and other outdoor elements present specific challenges to grave markers. Different types of plants can cause moisture to become trapped on and under the plaque’s surface, contributing to the monument’s overall deterioration. This moisture can then foster biological growth such as algae, fungi, lichen, and mold. These organic growths can produce acids that dissolve concrete, limestone, marble, and sandstone.

    Gravestone Cleaning Service

    Before we begin the grave marker cleaning process, our team conducts a detailed evaluation of the memorial. This assessment helps us identify the base stone material and determine the most appropriate cleaning method and products. Typically, we use a spray bottle filled with clean water and a mild non-ionic soap, combined with a soft-bristled brush and a specialized bronze cleaning solution for specific grave markers.