Graffiti Removal From A New Development Sign

We went to do a graffiti removal job on a sign for a new development.

Graffiti Removal From Sign – Before

They didn’t even get the building built before someone tagged the sign out front! Let’s hope this isn’t a sign of what’s to come at this location.

If you think about it, anyone driving by a new building who might be a prospective tenant doesn’t want to see graffiti on the signs. It creates a negative impression, no matter what the building ends up looking like.

Tagging – no matter what the “artists” think – has been proven to lower property values.

Fortunately, the developers called us immediately and we got out the same day to remove the graffiti. They’re doing everything they can to make sure the graffiti doesn’t come back.

Graffiti Removal From Sign – After

As we’ve said many times before, graffiti removal must be done as soon as possible. If you leave a canvas for these people to show their “artwork”, they’ll continue to post their art. If they know it will be removed before anyone has a chance to see it, they’ll go find someplace else to spend their time.

And if you try to remove the tags yourself, make sure you know what you’re doing. You can make it worse if you don’t use the right materials and procedures.

More times than we can count, we’ve been called to remove graffiti, only to find that someone else tried to remove it. And if they’ve smeared it around or partially dissolved it so it seeped deeper into the underlying surface, most of the time we can’t remove it completely.

I’m sure this sounds self serving, like you should never try to do it yourself because we’re the only ones who can do it. But that’s not the case.

There are other companies who know how to remove graffiti, too. We just want to make certain that people understand why sometimes they make it worse and there’s nothing we can do to help.