| Mausoleums, in general, tend to be beautiful buildings, | | | | with shower caulk. As I scanned the flashlight around |
| standing as stately monuments to the loved ones | | | | the room, I saw horrible ⦠damage. There was |
| who are layed to rest in them. These ornate | | | | a discolored substance that ran from the marble |
| buildings, commonly adorned with bronze and gold | | | | plates down to the floor.â |
| accents, marble columns and stained glass windows, | | | | The good news is, you can find options to battle |
| are designed and assembled to mirror a sense of | | | | both mausoleum odors and coffin flies. For decades, |
| dignity, serenity, and peace. There are two common | | | | most inside the industry have tried to utilize |
| complications with many mausoleums, however, | | | | deodorizing sprays, chemical pest control, fly papers, |
| which, undesirably, rob the serene and peaceful | | | | and large fans to cover the odors and to try to |
| quality from the families of the interred, and make a | | | | manage the phorid fly infestations. These sprays and |
| mockery of the deceased bodies. These two | | | | chemicals, etc. have frustrated mausoleum caretakers |
| conditions are mausoleum smells and coffin, or phorid | | | | and other employees, because they are generally |
| flies. | | | | ineffective, and in addition, they develop into a health |
| Mausoleum smells are from the decomposition | | | | hazard in the structure, creating a noxious |
| process, which occurs naturally as the body | | | | environment that's harmful to employees and visitors |
| undergoes the decaying process. Morticians | | | | alike. An additional remedy is an electronic unit that |
| frequently call the offending bodies, | | | | mausoleums utilize to neutralize odors and to deal |
| âleakersâ. These mausoleum odors | | | | with the coffin flies, which from industry claims, is |
| can be terribly overwhelming, and as a result of the | | | | likely to make the task less difficult for the |
| embalming chemicals and the gases coming as a | | | | mausoleum proprietors and staff because it is |
| result of decomposition, they can coupled with that | | | | effective at controlling the flies and will completely |
| pose a health hazard to workers and visitors. | | | | get rid of odors on a nightly basis while the building is |
| The second challenging issue that is prevalent for | | | | vacant. Using the electronic method, there is |
| most mausoleums is the phorid or coffin fly. These | | | | additionally the security in knowing that there aren't |
| terrible pests are about one fourth the size of the | | | | any harmful toxins being spread throughout the |
| average house fly, and while they're in the larval | | | | building, which makes for a |
| stage of growth, coffin flies feed on the | | | | âeco-friendlyâ solution which is a |
| decomposing bodies within the crypt spaces. When | | | | great deal more healthy for personnel and guests. |
| they emerge from the casket as mature flies, they | | | | Why not help preserve the dignity, peace and |
| also pose a dreadful risk in spreading disease when | | | | serenity for the passed and for their families, and |
| they land. Frequently, they are in search of moisture, | | | | help keep these beautiful structures as the memorials |
| and it is very common for them to fly into the eyes, | | | | that they were designed to be. We grieve at the |
| nose and mouths of visitors or workers in the | | | | losing of a loved one; there is certainly no reason to |
| structure. The flies tend to be so small that a lot of | | | | have to perpetually suffer when paying respects. If |
| folks confuse them as gnats, and insiders in the | | | | you happen to be in a mausoleum and you observe |
| mausoleum business do not want visitors to find out | | | | the little coffin flies or if you smell any foul odors, |
| the reality about exactly where the flies are | | | | without delay register a written grievance with the |
| emerging from. | | | | mausoleum owner and with the Funeral Consumers |
| This is what one visitor to a mausoleum in Glendale, | | | | Alliance,or in the case of a Catholic cemetery, to the |
| California had to say, âPossibly the most | | | | church, or the office of the local bishop. |
| shocking of all is the Mausoleum. I stepped inside and | | | | Chris Zikmanis is the creator of Dignity Angels, an |
| knew immediately something was wrong. There the | | | | advocacy group which is devoted to encouraging a |
| temperature inside the complex was around 80 | | | | degree of reverence to honor our fallen relatives at |
| degrees. I heard what sounded like insects swarming | | | | or near the graveside. Should you require assist |
| in one of the walls⦠many of the vaults have | | | | resolving cemetery or mausoleum problems, please |
| had leakage problems where they have sealed them | | | | contact Dignity Angels. |