Tombstone dying to be washed

[PMG]

Best way to clean a (granite?) tombstone without risking damage? Client would like the old paint removed as well. Just pressure?

Thanks

[marinegrunt]

Scroll down a few posts and he says how he cleaned them.

What's the weirdest thing you've ever pressure washed

Last week I did about 100 headstones. Not too weird of a job, but the circumstances surrounding it were. I got a call from a man from a cemetery foundation and we talked for a bit and I named my price of $1200. He didn’t hesitate and said he’d write and mail me a check right then and there, which I ended up receiving in the mail a full week before the job. Now I’ve never been paid up front so it was odd to me. Come to find out he passed just a few days later and was buried in the same cemetery …

[Chesebro]

What!?!?!?

[marinegrunt]

Pressureguy posted that awhile back. I already feel like I’m cursed enough so the last thing I need to be doing is tromping all over graves…lol

[PMG]

Thanks

[Historic]

Prosoco Heavy duty paint stripper. Wet stone, brush on product. Let dwell for 30ish minutes, keep wet. Brush more. Rinse thoroughly.

[PMG]

Thanks!

[ArtBCS]

IMHO you honored the dead by maintaining their memorial markers. Genealogy groups like DAR and SAR often clean and/or restore headstones of veterans of any era. Many of those would be unreadable and the information on the person lost without that maintenance. So much family history in those markers.