Straight up weird! OOOO WEEEEE no thank you
Very honorable thing you did, good on you for accepting it.
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It was by far my most profitable residential/commercial job this year and it was rewarding to see the results. I’d do them all the time.
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Nice work! Those cleaned up great! I love looking around old cemeteries and looking at old headstones. There’s a website called “find a grave.com” or something like that. A few years back I had a cousin who was searching for family ancestors and had posted pictures of my great-great-great grandparents headstones and I happened to run across them. I didn’t know they were on there at at the time. Anyways, people post photo requests of headstones when searching for ancestors. If you happen to be in the area of cemeteries of a request you get an email. Then, if you want, you can go to that cemetery and try and find the headstone and take a picture to send to the person requesting it. You get requests from people from all over the country. It’s kind of fun trying to find them and nice to be able to help others out.
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@pressureguy that’s amazing. What was your process on getting all these clean? Sounds like a good way to give back a couple times a year for a smaller cemetery.
I found that the quickest and easiest way to get them clean was a quick spritz of about 6% SH with heavy surfactant, scrub it in with a brush, then rinse a few minutes later. Some of them will require a few coats but I managed to clean over 100 like this in just 6 hours.
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First I tried just letting it dwell for 10 minutes but that didn’t really work at all.
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Just got a call today to wash the trunks of a few trees. Weird…
Sometimes?
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pretty?
Maybe could’ve done without the “pretty” and “sometimes”. 
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@pressureguy what did you charge if you don’t mind me asking? I just did some work for a long time customer who works for our local museum which also manages an old historic cemetery in town. She asked for me to take a look at it and give her a price on cleaning the headstones.
He post stated he did 100 headstones for $1200. That would be $12 each which to me sounds about right. I would have said $10 each - some are very small and some larger but average it out. He did it in 6 hours so $1200 for 6 hours work is called a good day!
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Are there any kinds of headstones that you can’t use SH on?
I’m no expert but I read in another thread that you shouldn’t use SH on marble. I think it’s fine on granite and soapstone though.
I might be suspect to that thought. A lot of bathrooms have marble countertops and most bathroom cleaners are SH and Sodium Hydroxide. Take a look at Scrubbing Bubbles MSDS sheet.
Best one we’ve done is a strip club. We were offered VIP passes for the following friday night but politely declined. My fiance is a fan of tips, alas, that one is one she would likely not have been okay with.
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I’m guessing it wasn’t Beef…
Haha a few good memories of beef and solids from back in the day, but no it was a club out in Kelowna! I could only imagine soft washing beef, getting rid of a lot more than just moss and dirt over there.
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