Graffiti Removal On A Playground

We recently did some graffiti removal on some playground equipment.

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We posted on our blog last week about removing the graffiti. But at that time we thought the pictures of the actual work being done had been deleted. Fortunately, one of my managers had already saved the pictures from that camera. Here’s the link to the article with the pictures before cleaning.

And there were a few special procedures we had to follow. We first closed off the whole area so no one tried to use the equipment. We didn’t want some little kid thinking it would be alright to play on the equipment we weren’t cleaning.

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You might think it would be common sense – but we’ve had people walk right through the cones we set up when washing the front of a store so they wouldn’t have to walk an extra few yards to the other door!

There were two reasons we blocked the whole area off. The first being so no one got sprayed when we were doing the graffiti removal.

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The second reason is so we could make sure we had a chance to neutralize the materials we used and rinse all the equipment off a few times. We made certain that there was no residue remaining for any of the children to come in contact with.

While the materials we use for graffiti removal are biodegradable, they’re not meant to be anywhere near children’s hands and faces. Graffiti removal is usually needed only on walls and other surfaces where no small children would be playing.

Since the lady who runs this crew for us has children of her own, we knew she would make sure it was safe before she left. We have two women working for us as team leaders. Not surprisingly, they’re usually better at the detail type cleaning we sometimes do than the men.

So if you have some graffiti removal you need done, we’ll make sure it’s done right.