Well, graffiti artists have been literally on the run from the police for quite some time. However, with fewer police on the streets at night due to municipal budget cuts, taggers can get away with their unauthorized artwork more often than not. Fortunately, today everyone has an iPhone with a camera, and your chances of getting caught are greater than in the past, even without the presence of the police. The problem is that at three or four in the morning most of the city’s streets are empty.
A young graffiti artist can walk down an alley, or slip in and out of the shadows of the city without being seen, and in baggy pants he can carry his guns, even if they are spray cans. Interestingly, in the first quarter of 2013 it seems that graffiti is making a comeback. It’s hard to say why, as one would think many of these young teens are receiving validation through their Facebook page, but not everyone is, many of them are still climbing buildings, climbing barbed wire fences and painting. graffiti. where no one has gone before.
Obviously this needs to stop, and if you are a business owner you know how bad it can be. They don’t just spray paint the sides of buildings, they often paint signs, windows, doors, and stone and brick work. It can cost a lot to continually hire a hot water pressure washing company to come and clean it. Worse yet, if you don’t do it right away, the tagger has gained notoriety, which is exactly what he’s looking for. If you get it right away, you deprive them of that goal.
That is why it is extremely important to remove graffiti as soon as possible in the early hours of the morning. Let’s face it, anyone who’s been up until three or four in the morning will probably sleep until noon. Then when they come to see if he’s still there, if he’s gone, after a while they realize that nobody pays attention to them anymore, nobody can see his work, and then what’s the use? One of the challenges we have right now is so many foreclosed properties, so many businesses for rent, and fewer police on the streets.
It’s like the broken window theory, the longer the graffiti stays, the more it attracts others to put up their own graffiti work, eventually it becomes a competition between the spray painting vandals. If you want to protect your stone and brick work, I recommend spraying it with paraffin wax. Why do you ask?
Simple, because all you have to do is take a pressure washer and remove that layer of wax, and the graffiti comes with it without any damage or rubbing. Then just apply another coat of paraffin wax, it’s like it never happened, and you’re ready for another round, eventually you win and these lazy, good-for-nothing juvenile delinquents will give up. Please consider all this and think about it.