Ventilation: Crypts need to be ventilated to eliminate moisture and vapors.

FamilyMausoleums.net offers superior ventilation systems with both horizontal and vertical cross ventilation as well as connecting-crypt ventilation (unless prohibited by customer or cemetery requirement).

Clamp/Pin or Epoxy Connections: Older construction methods use stainless steel clamps and dowel pins to assure that the pieces of a mausoleum line up and stay together. More recently epoxies with bonds stronger than the granite itself have replaced clamps and dowels in most construction.

To assure maximum stability, FamilyMausoleums.net uses both clamp/pin and epoxy systems, each independent and each constructed to higher-than-normal industry standards.

Finished Interiors: Interior finishing (polishing the area inside the crypt itself) is considered unnecessary and too costly by the mausoleum industry.

FamilyMausoleums.net disagrees and completely polishes all interiors to provide the most elegant final resting places possible.

Sealed Crypts: Members of the mausoleum and cemetery industries are divided over the necessity of sealing mausoleum crypts. Both sides recognize the need for adequate ventilation but one group feels occupied crypts should be sealed from other crypts so that existing caskets cannot be seen when later internments are made.

Others see no problem with crypt exposure and prefer the increased ventilation that an open crypt layout provides.

Although FamilyMausoleums.net feels crypt exposure is not a concern, crypt dividers and crypt closures are included in all its mausoleums. However crypt dividers, unless prohibited by customer or cemetery requirement, have centered top and bottom vents for connecting-crypt ventilation.

The crypt divider/crypt closure system can be omitted upon request.

Granite Crypt Dividers and Closures: Instead of industry-standard concrete crypt dividers and crypt closures, FamilyMausoleums.net uses fully polished solid granite crypt dividers and closures.

100% Granite Construction: FamilyMausoleums.net mausoleums feature totally solid, totally natural granite construction (with the exception of the floor on concrete floor models) to provide the superior above-ground entombment you and your family deserve.