Good Day to All, I am happy that I was guided to your thread as the professionals I needed to contact for answers to my problem.
The problem is that a florist, putting a wreath on my parents’ joint tombstone, was not careful and did not make certain the rubber tubing was between the clamp and the marble slab…resulting in rust on the marble.
An even more serious problem is that my four brothers did not want this type of wreath as they had heard if rust got on the marble it could not be removed.
I will be going back in a week or so and want to work with the rust and remove it.
I need your best advise…TIA, betty
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>> I need your best advice...
So your brothers didn't want that kind of wreath, but they were perfectly content to let you make the arrangements for it instead of ordering what they preferred. And, I presume, happy to let you pay for it instead of paying for what they preferred. And now you're faced with scorn or abuse or both because they think they were right to stand around whining while you went ahead and did something, even though it turned out not to be exactly the right thing.
My best advice is to click on the Advanced Search button near the top of the left hand frame and search for messages containing marble and rust. We had a thread here just last week or the week before about removing rust stains from marble countertops.
My second best advice is do nothing. If one of them complains about the stain, ask him what he proposes to do about it. If rust on the tombstone is going to tear the family apart, you might as well do it now. If you get the stain out and manage to keep the family together this time, something will certainly come along later and threaten to tear the family apart all over again.
My third best advice is that you don't have to kill all four of them. One will probably do. Two at the most.
My fourth best advice is to make a note to your executor that you want a granite tombstone in a color what won't show rust.
So funny !! Right on all scores.
I nearly fell off my chair laughing. Sounds as though you know my brothers...all but the baby brother. I looked after him, we're very close.
Such great advise I have gotten from several members, my thanks to all.
I will stay away from acidic stuff but will try some of the lesser evils and see what I can accomplish.
Thanks again for making me feel much, much better about the whole thing...and I will, as long as I can, continue paying my respects to our parents, unafraid of the consequences.
Look here.
http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=tp-breaktime&msg=40437.1
KK