I had planned to finish up my post today on our trip, but someone spray painted our fence last night with some really horrible graffiti, so this gorgeous day has been spent dealing with that. My poor husband has been working most of the day trying to sand it off, but it's not going too well, and eventually he'll have to do the whole thing and restain it all. He's even thought about the possibility of just putting up a whole new fence, since this is taking so long and he's not really getting anywhere. What a mess.
It wasn't just our house, it was the house behind us as well, and we just found out that in another part of the neighborhood someone's house was painted with the same symbols and words--not their fence, their house. Awful.
I'm so, so disgusted, and don't know what to do.
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I'm so sorry, that's horrible. Our (now old) neighborhood has tons of problems with tagging. Pretty much every smooth surface will eventually be tagged - so our wall got hit a couple of times. There's a cleaning solution that's made for tagging, I'm pretty sure it's called "taginator"? If you scrub it with that and then power wash it (may have to rent a power washer), it usually comes off. But it's a huge pain, and just so inconsiderate, among other things.
Oh, I'm so sorry! That's awful.
I was also going to suggest the special cleaning solution for graffiti. My mom's Beetle was spray painted with graffiti, and I think they used that stuff to get it off. Did you report it to the police?
He tried a special solvent for graffiti, but it didn't work. Sanding was the only thing that would take it off. It finally did, but the fence looks terrible. It will all have to be sanded now and restained.
Nancy, yes, he did call the police, but they just had him leave a recorded report. Who knows if anything will ever come of it.
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