Grave care
Grave cleaning in East and North London
Headstone, kerbs, vase and surround — all cleaned safely. From £54.
A full grave clean takes a memorial back to how it looked, without doing it any harm. We remove moss, lichen, algae, bird mess and general London grime from the headstone, kerbs, vase and surround, tidy the plot, and send you photographs of the finished result. From £54 for a single headstone.
What's included
How we clean stone safely
There is a right and a wrong way to clean a memorial, and the wrong way does permanent damage that costs far more to fix than the clean saved. We use a pH-neutral, conservation-grade biological cleaner applied with soft brushes and plenty of clean water. On heavy growth it keeps working for weeks after we leave.
What we never use, and why:
Different stone, different approach
Polished granite (most memorials from around 1970) is hard and durable but scratches show badly on a polished face. Cleaned with soft brushes only.
Marble is soft, porous and acid-sensitive — common on Victorian and Edwardian graves. Handled slowly, with no abrasion.
Portland and other limestone weathers to a protective skin. Cleaning too aggressively strips it and the stone decays faster.
Slate cleans well but shows any scratch. Sandstone is often already crumbling — sometimes it shouldn't be cleaned at all, and we'll tell you if that's the case.
Where we do it
Across cemeteries in Newham, Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Haringey, Enfield, Barnet, Islington and Camden, plus Romford, Ilford, Chigwell and Loughton. Find your cemetery →
Permission
Most cemeteries require the authority of the person who holds the exclusive right of burial before anyone works on a memorial. If you're not sure who holds it, we'll help you find out — we won't work on a grave without the right to do so.