Prevention & Cleaning
Maryland Citizens Against Vandalism (MCAV) wants government at all levels in Maryland to clean spray-paint vandalism not by simply painting over it, which just creates an additional form of blight. We want government to clean the vandalism with the sophisticated yet relatively inexpensive methods that already exist—methods that eliminate any traces of the vandalism having been there. This page highlights cleaning products as well as prevention methods that achieve this particular goal.
Disclaimer: Maryland Citizens Against Vandalism (MCAV) is a non-profit organization with no commercial interests in any particular commercial graffiti removal product. However, MCAV does advocate for particular graffiti-vandalism cleaning methods that prove to be successful in removing graffiti without damaging the original surface.
Cleaning Spray-Paint Vandalism: A team cleans an industrial building in Los Angeles
The following video is an impressive example of a professional pressure-washing business removing spray-paint vandalism from the walls of an industrial building in downtown Los Angeles. The team is using a spray-paint removal product call World’s Best Graffiti Removers. The team first brushes on an application of the World’s Best Graffiti Removers product across all of the affected surfaces. After a short amount of time to allow the removal product to settle in, the team uses pressure-washing to successfully clean the spray-paint vandalism from the walls. The walls have been successfully cleaned without damaging the underlying surfaces, which include brick and metal.
Cleaning Spray-Paint Vandalism: A utility building in Malvern, PA is cleaned
The following video shows a brick wall of a utility building that was vandalized. The graffiti vandalism was removed using a product called Watch Dog Wipe Put Porous Surface Graffiti Remover from an organization called Dumond. The product is applied to the graffiti vandalism, allowed to sit for 15-30 minutes to dissolve the spray paint, and then power washed.