{"id":11071,"date":"2014-08-25T08:09:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T13:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/?p=11071"},"modified":"2014-08-25T08:09:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T13:09:45","slug":"removing-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/25\/removing-graffiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing Graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some graffiti is interesting, thought provoking, and requires talent<\/a> – it’s a form of art. <\/p>\n

We don’t find artwork on the silver MDC box in our front yard. No, the tags we regularly see are just vandalism. For a while there was an individual called “Shot One” who marked up our box, and other boxes in the area. Not sure what happened to him, but now there is a new tag that I have yet to decipher.<\/p>\n

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Rather than putting in another request via See Click Fix<\/a> to have the City come deal with it, I took a ride down to the home improvement super center to investigate my options. They had two products advertised for graffiti removal, so I got one of each to see how they would work.<\/p>\n

First up was Mostenbocker’s Lift Off Spray Paint Graffiti Remover<\/a>. It did a very nice job. I sprayed it onto the box and the paint started to dissolve almost immediately. It was very easy to wipe the paint off with a rag. It worked so well, in fact, that it began to remove the silver paint that had been used to cover the previous tag.<\/p>\n

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The next step in our anti-graffiti effort is to continue treating the older paint to see if it can all be removed down to the original finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some graffiti is interesting, thought provoking, and requires talent – it’s a form of art. We don’t find artwork on the silver MDC box in our front yard. No, the tags we regularly see are just vandalism. For a while there was an individual called “Shot One” who marked up our box, and other boxes in the area. Not sure what happened to him, but now there is a new tag that I have yet<\/p>\n

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