Columbaria Features & Benefits
Superior Quality and Craftsmanship
Sunset’s Columbaria are designed to create elegant and dignified models, fabricated using only the finest materials. The granite doors are available in a wide assortment of granite colours and are chosen to complement and enhance the design. As with all of Sunset’s products, one is assured of superior quality and craftsmanship.
Clean lines, cutting edge designs, beautiful landscaping as well as years of experience go together in creating each columbaria. Sunset offers some of the most distinct and elegant styles available as well as the opportunity to customize to your specific needs. Our columbaria are highly visible and attractive features, imparting a feeling of peace and care for the deceased, but also for all who are visiting the grounds.
Please review the following key features . . .
Columbarium Features
Foundations
Foundations are the concrete base on which the columbarium rests. The design of the foundation depends on the ground conditions – what works in one cemetery will not always be appropriate for another cemetery. The foundation can be simply slab on grade, require concrete or screw piles that could be 30 feet deep, or be a single pour that is four or five feet thick. This process can be managed completely by Sunset to eliminate any worry and headaches, or in collaboration with, or entirely by, the Cemetery or Municipality.
Frames
Sunset’s interior aluminum frame is designed to withstand extreme temperature fluctuations while providing the strength and flexibility to create innovative columbaria forms. Because of the flexibility of the aluminum frame, a Sunset columbarium can achieve specific curves and lines that are not possible with heavier, more cumbersome granite cores. For innovative designs, Sunset’s aluminum frame is unbeatable.
Inner Locking Security Doors
Sunset’s Aluminum interior-locking door system is by far one of our most appreciated columbarium features. Not only does it provide families with peace of mind that their loved ones are safely secured, but it also provides cemetery management with that second level of security as granite face plates are removed for inscription. The concealed inner Aluminum door locking system is corrosion resistant and the perfect choice for our North American climate. This is a standard feature in all of our commercial models.
Granite door fronts can be attached with rosettes. Using a key-specific screw driver, the rosettes are easily secured in place. For those who wish to have a more seamless look, Sunset’s “rosette-less” system is the perfect choice. Designed for its simple elegance and refined lines, this concealed hardware system draws a lot of attention for its beauty and style.
Extra granite door fronts come in two thicknesses based on whether they are intended for inscriptions or plaques. The holes for plaques can be pre-drilled on each granite face in order to ensure continuity.
Niches – Sunset offers two options for interior niche cores.
Nylene Niche
Sunset is the first to introduce new Nylene materials as part of our interior niche cores. Inert to the environment, lighter in weight and pound-for-pound stronger than steel in compression, Nylene is proving to be a winner in the latest of columbarium design technology. Nylene was first developed by the military for use in the M1 Abrams tank and is now used on the underbelly of the Predator Drones. As a cost savings alternative to aluminum, Sunset has employed Nylene in thousands of niches across the country—savings we gladly pass onto our customers.
Available size: 11⅞” x 11⅞” x 15½” (W x H x D) or 11⅞” x 11⅞” x 11⅞” (W x H x D)
Nylene ™ Niche
Aluminum Niche
The Aluminum core is known for its corrosion resistance and lightweight flexibility. All of Sunset’s interior aluminum cores are powder coated to not only ensure a beautiful look, but to also prevent metal urns from fusing to the aluminum niche.
Available size: 12” x 12” x 16” (W x H x D) or 12” x 12” x 12” (W x H x D)
Aluminum ™ Niche
