Over the last couple of decades graffiti has become a great problem particularly in the large agglomerations.
It appears almost everywhere - on the external walls of buildings, girders and piers of bridges, underground passages, facilities in parks and roads. About 80% of graffiti is written with paint and marking pens on large walls, very often on historical objects.
A considerable amount of money and time are spent annually on removing graffiti, City Councils have now begun to enforce regulations for keeping streets clean. According some of these regulations, not only the person who wrote the graffiti is responsible for damage, but also the owner of the building on which the graffiti was written and unattended for a prolonged period of time.
The traditional cleaning techniques are based on the use of a scalpel, abrasive dust, stream of fluid, or chemical agents. They may lead to the serious damage of the deeper layers of substrate.
Do you want to see this on your house tomorrow morning?
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Graffiti cleaning by laser
Quick and efficient result without efforts
Graffiti is often removed by using steam or chemicals. The disadvantage of these techniques is the fact that they’re not always as effective as they should. With other techniques, like sandblasting, there is a risk of damaging or wearing down the underlying layer. This forms a problem with softer stone types and historical buildings.
Laser cleaning is very suitable for removing graffiti. The laser beams will quickly heat up the paint layer, which then will evaporate. The underlying stone or concrete layer remains cool because of its higher ablation temperature. So the laser beams will have no effect on the underlying stone or plaster layer. Even on wood or glass, paint can be removed!
When using sufficiently powerful laser sources, the removal of graffiti goes very fast. Depending on the age, the color and the thickness of the paint layer, we are able to clean a square meter full of paint in less than half an hour with our heavy power cleaning lasers.
Thanks to its quick cleaning, laser cleaning is comparable or even better in price to the other techniques, but it has so much better results with a very high positive ecologic impact.
Every City, every little Village, they are all heavily infexted by Graffiti!
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Advantages of graffiti removal by laser cleaning
- Eliminates the use of solvents (climate protection)
- Reduction of grinding and chemical cleaning resources
- Reducing noise in inhabited parts of cities
- Cost reduction
- High productivity of tools
- Reduction of the masking material
- The process can be used safely outdoor (for example masts) and in the locations where it’s not possible to use conventional methods
Advantages of graffiti removal by laser cleaning
- Eliminates the use of solvents (climate protection)
- Reduction of grinding and chemical cleaning resources
- Reducing noise in inhabited parts of cities
- Cost reduction
- High productivity of tools
- Reduction of the masking material
- The process can be used safely outdoor (for example masts) and in the locations where it’s not possible to use conventional methods
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