The Cotton Dust Haze
Coolidge is surrounded by cotton fields. During harvest, the air is full of fine organic dust and defoliant chemicals. This mixture settles on headstones and creates a sticky, gray haze. When humidity rises, it bonds to the stone.
You can't just brush this off. It smears. We use specialized headstone cleaning services near me with degreasers that break down the agricultural oils. We strip this chemical film to reveal the clean stone underneath.
Sun Bleached History
There is zero shade in the Pinal flats. The sun beats down on the monuments all day. It burns the paint right out of the lettering. Names fade away. We specialize in cleaning stone gravestones and re-inking the engravings with heavy-duty lithichrome. We bring the contrast back so the history isn't lost to the glare.
Alkaline Soil Spalling
The soil here is salty. When it rains, that salt wicks up into the porous base of the marker. As it dries, the salt expands and pops the face off the stone ("spalling"). It looks like the bottom is rotting. Our grave site cleaning services include treating the base to stop this chemical erosion and seal the pores against the ground salts.
