Care Hub | Expert Advice on Headstone Cleaning & Gravestone Care
A look back at our day at Frampton Country Fair, meeting visitors and introducing the people, products and memorial-care services behind GraveClean.
A grave photo may contain the location saved by the camera. Here is how to try GraveClean’s photo option, and what to use if those details are missing.
A carefully placed tribute can still fall outside a cemetery’s rules. Find out why items may be removed from graves, how to ask about collection and what to do if you disagree.
A leaning headstone can hide more than uneven ground. GraveClean stonemason Andrew James draws on 30+ years’ experience to explain what he looks for, the repair problems he has uncovered and how professional re-levelling works.
Found a family headstone lying flat? Learn why a cemetery may have made it safe, what not to do, who to contact and how professional re-fixing can help.
It's one of the questions families ask most often, which rarely has a straightforward answer: how often should you clean a grave? If you've been wondering whether you're visiting too little, too much, or doing the right kind of care at all, you're not alone. Most of the unsettled emotions families feel about grave care come from simply not knowing what ‘normal’ looks like.
Any loved one would want the headstone of a family member or friend to be looking its best throughout the year. If you've started searching for professional headstone cleaning, you've probably found there's no simple price list to point to. That can be frustrating when all you want is a ballpark figure, but there's a good reason for it. No two memorials need quite the same amount of work.
Faded headstone lettering can be restored in different ways depending on the stone and the state of the inscription. Here is how repainting and re-gilding actually work, what affects how long they last, and when the memorial needs cleaning before any of it begins.