I've gotten into cleaning headstones. I highly recommend D/2 Biological Solution for cleaning headstones. Although the stone needs to be in decent shape and not crumbling away. Here's one grave I did last year.

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Posted by doublecutter

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Member since Oct 2003

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Posted on 1/14/24 at 11:34 am to DarthTiger

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I've gotten into cleaning headstones. I highly recommend D/2 Biological Solution for cleaning headstones. Although the stone needs to be in decent shape and not crumbling away. Here's one grave I did last year.

What procedure did you use? My great great grandparents tombstone looks like your first picture and I've been wanting to go clean it.

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Posted by Swamp Angel

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Member since Jul 2004

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Posted on 1/14/24 at 4:05 pm to DarthTiger

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I highly recommend D/2 Biological Solution for cleaning headstones.

Thank you for the direction. When we went up to Yawkey, WV for Mom's funeral this past August I noticed the condition of the headstones. I think I'll be using a bit of your recommended solution next time I go to visit the graves of my parents and my two older siblings. The headstones of Robbie and Mary Anne were looking rather dingy and in dire need of a good scrubbing. I'm sure that the headstone my parents now share will be needing a cleaning as well in due time, but it has only been there a little over 30 years as opposed to the others that are more than 50 years old.

Fortunately, the granite headstones haven't deteriorated like so many of the marble headstones I've encountered at cemeteries.

This post was edited on 1/15/24 at 5:54 am

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