Graffiti removal across the North East

Graffiti is rarely a one-off. A tag left on a gable end, a roller shutter or a boundary wall tends to attract the next one, so prompt removal matters as much as the method. The difficulty is that spray paint soaks into porous brick and stone, and the wrong approach either leaves a ghost of the tag or takes the face off the wall with it.

Graffiti removal starts with identifying the surface and the paint. Brick, sandstone, render, painted metal and glass all need different handling. Most jobs use a suitable remover left to dwell and then rinsed off, often with heat from a DOFF steam cleaning system, which lifts paint from masonry at low pressure. A small test area is done first so you can see the result before the whole tag is treated.

If you are still weighing things up, our guides on graffiti removal cost and removing graffiti from brick go deeper. This page explains the service and how a job is scoped.

Brick is the most common surface and one of the trickiest, because the paint sits in both the face of the brick and the mortar joints. Soft or handmade bricks are handled very gently; hard engineering brick tolerates more. Mortar can hold a faint colour after the brick itself is clean, and we will be honest about that during the test.

Speed matters with brick. Fresh paint that has not fully cured comes away far more readily than a tag that has baked into the wall over a summer, so it is worth getting in touch as soon as graffiti appears rather than waiting for a run of it to build up.

Painted or smooth surfaces such as roller shutters, metal doors and signs are usually quicker, since the paint has not soaked in. Glass is treated with care so it is not scratched.

There is no fixed price list, because no two jobs are alike. The cost depends on the area covered, the surface (porous brick and stone take longer than painted metal), the type of paint, how long it has been there, the height and access, and how many separate tags are spread across a site.

A photo and a rough size are usually enough for a first idea; the scope is then confirmed at quote and, where useful, after a test patch. Commercial customers often add the job to a wider clean of the frontage, covered on our commercial exterior cleaning page.