Monday, July 20, 2009

Thank goodness

Orihuela has acquired a machine to remove graffiti as part of their new cleaning contract. They had used a similar machine on the Puente del Rey some time ago and it worked very well.

Removing graffiti can be costly; the council paid 700 Euros to have the graffiti removed from the Santiago and Monserrate churches by a specialised company. Now they can do the work for just the cost of the materials and the labour.

The machine they have acquired sprays a fine talc like sand under pressure at the surface. It is apparently very quick and works on a wide variety of surfaces. Once the graffiti is removed, a quick hose down and the job is complete.

It is annoying that a council has to go to such lengths but at least they can clean the graffiti away now. In the early days at Anfield, we had a policy of removing graffiti as soon as it appeared. Gradually it stopped appearing as the children learnt that it was pointless writing on the walls.

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