Restorations
Over the last 100 years we have learned more of what materials last better. Because New Zealand is far away from the world’s stone supplies, in the past most monuments were mounted on a concrete foundation. Much of this old concrete is very weak and is now failing. It is always better lasting in a monuments construction to have more stone and the least amount of concrete as possible but today’s concrete is much stronger and will last better than this material did in the past. However, many families are now taking the opportunity to replace concrete bases with granite as our prices are so affordable.
Some of our work
Here is an older marble monument with lead lettering. Marble is a soft porous stone so the fashion was to beat lead into the engraved lettering to enable the wording to be read. The lead is keyed by little holes drilled into each letter.