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| Staten Island Monuments provides the finest memorials for cemeteries throughout the tri-state area. We operate 3 locations on Staten Island and have both indoor and outdoor showrooms to serve you better. Artist’s Memorial Monuments, Moravian Monuments and Resurrection Monuments have merged together to create a company dedicated to serving the community.
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Granite is the traditional stone used to create monuments. It is one of the hardest and most durable of substances. It can be exposed to weather for centuries without crumbling. It is this extreme hardness, plus the fineness of it's crystals, that makes granite the perfect choice for monuments. Different types of granites are quarried from specific regions of the world. Some from as close as Vermont and some as far away as South Africa and China. Each type of granite carries a color, texture and the particular crystal pattern associated with that region. At Staten Island Monuments we help you choose a granite of beauty with a color, texture and finish that is perfect for the very special memory of your loved one.
Granite is quarried by either jet-piercing, blasting or sawing it from the earth. Once in granite block form, they are transported to production plants by heavy machinery to begin the manufacturing process. The blocks of granite are cut into pieces or “slabs” of various thicknesses by diamond saws. Many of these slabs undergo polishing. The polishing process is somewhat similar to the sanding of wood, in that abrasives are used to smooth the surface of the stone. Coarser abrasive grits are first used to rough grind the granite. Progressively finer grits are used during the process to first polish and then to buff the surface to a glass-like sheen.
Once both sides of the slabs are polished the stone is transported to an area where the monument is cut to dimension and refinished according to the customers requirements. A rubber stencil is then cut that includes the design the family has chosen along with lettering sizes and styles. The memorial and stencil are now moved over conveyors into one of the sand-carving booths. The operator directs a stream of abrasive that is blown under pressure of about one hundred pounds per square inch at the monument. When the abrasive strikes the rubber it merely bounces off, but where the rubber has been cut away, the abrasive carves the pattern into the granite. This one-step method is used to produce letters and other two-dimensional designs. After the completion of the carving the memorial is then moved to an area where the stone is completely washed and dried.
Once dried, it is time for the Quality Control Inspector to carefully compare the original order and design to make certain that the memorial is complete and error free. Only after the memorial completes inspection and receives a passing grade from the Quality Control Inspector it is moved to the crating area, where it is carefully packaged in a wooden box and shipped to our facility where it is staged awaiting setting in the cemetery.
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- Mausoleums
- Upright Monuments
- Markers (bronze and granite)
- Bronze Plaques and Signs
- Statues
- Benches
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- Cremation Urns
- Vases
- Pet Memorials
- Commercial Signage
- Cemetery Lettering
- Cleaning and Restoration
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