Estimating Your Restoration Work

Requesting Information

Providing you help for obtaining our services.

Studio located in:  Marblehead, MA

If you would like us to estimate work for you, we suggest taking the following steps:

• Provide us with the folio size and the degree of staining and/or damage to your print.
• E-mail us with the above information - an estimate will be suggested from your information.
• We will then be able to give you an estimate that should reflect our proposed work and costs.
• If you have decided to ship us your work for evaluation, package it (without glass) between sheets of very strong cardboard. If you have trouble, contact us.
• Please fill out and include our Order /Request Form with your artwork.
• When we received your work, we will evaluate and estimate services and work for you.
• Our Process that we use for Conservation and Restoration cleanings is slow and mild, using alkaline distilled water with sunlight.  It literally takes many, many applications with a weeks time inbetween applications to safely reduce and bring back your prints natural beauty.  No sunlight, no cleanings.  Please be patient in allowing us to safely clean and preserve your print's and documents.  This is why it takes us 6 to 12 months or more to complete some difficult cleanings.  We can't be rushed as your order comes to its final cleaning and your patients is appreciated.  
• We are happy to update clients on progress of your order but seem to almost always fall short of expected or projected completion dates.  I am a one person shop so there is only so much I can do in one day.  Your understanding is appreciated.
• We also have a Materials fee, for Supplies, Blotters, chemicals, supplies, deacidification spray in addition to Restoration / Conservation charges.
• We will provide you with itemized work order which includes all estimated costs and work.
• Estimates that don't meet with your approval, and you do not want to go forward with our work, your artwork will be returned to you.
• If accepted, we begin your work after receiving your approval either via eMail, phone or signing Order form.
• Established customers pay for their work upon shipment.   First orders for new customers are payable prior to shipping.
• Large orders may require a 50% deposit before starting work.  No deposits are needed for single orders.
• All work sent to us, follows the conditions set forth in our Conditions of Acceptance and Completion for All Work.
• UPS - USPS shipping, packing and insurance are in addition to the work or service charges.

Our Information Sheet. It shows the costs and our conditions for acceptance and completion of customer's work. Although, verbal estimates are given, we will need to see and test each print to properly evaluate and recommend the work that we feel will be necessary for correct conservation and restorations of your artwork. Each customer should request a copy of this form with their work estimate.

If you would like to see some recent work, please go to our Recent Restoration Examples page.

If you would like to see our main restoration page again, please go to our Restoration - Conservation page

Some other Types of Conservation and Restoration work that have been completed     Types of Work   

ART & OLD PRINT RESTORATION
Studio located in:   Marblehead, MA

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