Funeral Planning – Choosing Grave Liners, Crypts, Burial Vaults, and a Cemetery
When choosing to bury the remains instead of cremation or entombment, you will have to add a grave liner or vault. In some places, you have to purchase from the mortuary whereas in others, you have to purchase form the cemetery. A grave liner and a vault are completely different. Make sure you know which one you want.
Remember, vaults are NOT required in any state but most cemeteries will require it to keep the grave from sinking in and creating more work.
Grave Liners
There are two different types of Grave Liners – 1. Concrete sectional burial liner or a 2. Solid liner box. Although it costs about $50 for a sectional and $125 for a solid, they will charge you $250 for either one. Generally, they will not ask you which one you want, they will just pick one.
A Concrete sectional burial liner is assembled inside the grave. It has very little water proofing and can easily be pushed over if it wasn’t assembled inside the grave. The packed dirt is the magic ingredient in keeping the Liner together. Each section is about 1 inch and a quarter thick, constructed with concrete and reinforced with chicken wire.
On the other hand, a Solid concrete box is about 1.5″ thick and reinforced with gauge iron mesh. It stands 30″ high, 33″ wide, and 94″ long.
So which one would the cemetery prefer to give you? They would actually give you the solid box if they could. It doesn’t …
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