Graffiti Removal

Painting over graffiti is not recommended. Most graffiti is made of dark-colored aerosol paint, which will show through light paint. It would take several layers of paint to cover it completely, and even a dark color would need numerous coats. This makes the job time-consuming and expensive, especially if the graffiti only covers a tiny portion of the surface and you have to paint layer upon layer over a wide area.

The abrasion method is also not recommended, as it will often end up costing you more! Commonly graffiti ends up on porous surface structures. Most people tend to think that graffiti paint lies directly upon the top layer of those surfaces, though unfortunately much like water soaking into a sponge, graffiti paint soaks deep beyond the surface.

In order for the order for abrasive procedures to work you would have to sand back and scrub plus blast, with your pressure cleaner, a considerable quantity of the wall away to completely remedy the graffiti. The ramifications of this would be crumbling of brick, render and stone. Timber would rot, mortar would easily remove itself and colourbond would rust.

One piece of excellent news is that graffiti can be removed from almost any surface. These are the common surfaces from which we remove graffiti: Bricks, Concrete, Timber, Render, Stone surfaces, Stainless Steel, Aluminium, Colorbond, Painted Surfaces, Vehicles, Trees, Bitumen, Paving, Cladding, Plastic, Glass 

Unfortunately, we would not recommend this. Strong cleaning chemicals such as bleach will result in white ‘shadow’ stains and we would usually be called in to rectify this also when self-cleaning graffiti has gone wrong.