RECOMMENDED EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS
Safety glasses and protective gloves.
Knee pads and boots. Old markers may have broken glass around the base.
Natural or plastic soft bristle brushes of various shapes and sizes & plastic grout brushes.
Wooden scrapers, craft sticks, tongue depressors, and wooden skewers,
Plastic scrapers, various sizes.
Buckets for holding your supplies and water.
Quart size plastic spray bottles.
1 to 2 gallon garden type pump sprayer filled with clean water.
A Small can of compressed air or mini leaf blower.
Rags and old towels.
Gallons and gallons of water. Old clean plastic milk bottles work great for transporting water to the markers.
D/2 biological solution. It works best at 45 degrees and above. Use undiluted for best results. (Our group recommends D/2 as the first choice in cleaning headstones and markers)
Orvus non-ionic cleaner can be used to remove heavy environmental deposits, grime and bird droppings, if water alone doesn’t remove the grime.
Enviro Klean, Biowash, Modec MDF-500 and Revive are also approved biological cleaners.