Graffiti Removal & Exterior Cleaning in Lancashire

No Graffiti Ltd is a specialist graffiti removal and exterior cleaning contractor working across Lancashire. We remove tags, paint and posters from brick, sandstone, render, steel shutters and concrete, then pressure wash, de-gum and protect the surfaces around them. Call 0161 399 5247 or send photos through our contact page and we will reply the same day with a method and a quote.

We have been doing this since 2001 and have completed more than 10,000 projects. Lancashire is a straight run up the M6 and M61 from Greater Manchester, and the M65 takes us across to Blackburn, Accrington and Burnley. We are open seven days a week, CHAS accredited and fully insured, and every job comes with RAMS and COSHH paperwork.

Preston: Fishergate, the city centre and the docks

Preston city centre is where most Lancashire graffiti calls start. Fishergate, Friargate and the streets around the Flag Market carry heavy footfall by day and a busy night time trade, and the shutters, side doors, service alleys and bin stores behind them are regular targets for tags. A tagged shutter left for a week tends to attract more.

We clear shutters and shopfronts before trading hours where we can, take paint off powder-coated steel without stripping the finish, and lift stickers and paste-ups from glazing, signs and poles with our fly-posting and sticker removal service. Further out, we look after offices, retail units and residential blocks around the docks and Riversway, and the student areas near the University of Central Lancashire.

• Roller shutters and doors on Fishergate and Friargate
• Service alleys, bin stores and loading bays behind the main streets
• Car parks, stairwells and underpasses
• Signage, glazing and street furniture covered in stickers

Concrete, sandstone and red brick: matching the method to the surface

Lancashire's buildings are a mix of very different materials. Preston has a lot of post-war concrete, including the Grade II listed bus station, while Lancaster and many town halls, churches and banks across the county are built in sandstone. Concrete can usually take hot water and controlled pressure. Sandstone cannot: it is porous and soft, so high pressure opens the surface and leaves a pale scar.

On stone and older brick we use low pressure steam and hot water at around 150°C from DOFF and ThermaTech systems, with specialist removers and poultices where paint has been drawn in. We always test a small area first. For whole elevations, our stone and masonry cleaning and facade cleaning services remove the carbon staining and green growth that build up over the years.

Blackburn, Burnley and the East Lancashire mill towns

Blackburn, Darwen, Accrington and Burnley grew up around cotton mills, terraced streets and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and a lot of that red brick fabric is still in use as flats, workshops, business units and shops. Canal towpaths, railway bridges, gable ends and back streets are where tags tend to collect, along with the shutters on town centre parades.

Hard red engineering brick, such as Accrington brick, can take a firmer clean, but soft handmade brick and lime mortar on older mills need a gentler touch, or the face and joints wash out. We match the method to what we find, and we can coat the walls that keep getting hit so the next tag comes off quickly.

Chorley, Leyland and the M61 business parks

Chorley and Leyland combine busy market town centres with large business parks, distribution sites and industrial estates along the M6 and M61. Town centre work is mostly shutters, shopfronts, alleyways and street furniture. On the business parks it is more often tagged cladding, fencing, signage and yard walls, plus gum and grime around entrances.

We can clean the whole outside of a site on one visit: graffiti off the cladding, pressure washing for the paving and forecourt, and chewing gum removal at the entrance. Facilities teams with sites in Chorley, Leyland and Preston can put them all on one schedule.

Blackpool, Lancaster and the coast

On the coast, salt air, wind and damp make surfaces work harder. Metal shutters, railings and signage weather faster, render streaks and goes green, and paving near the seafront picks up sand, gum and grime. Graffiti on top of that weathering is harder to remove cleanly unless the method suits the surface.

In Blackpool, Fleetwood, Morecambe and Lancaster we clean shutters, frontages, shelters and street furniture, treat moss, algae and lichen on render and stone, and apply anti-graffiti coatings to the surfaces that are tagged repeatedly. In Lancaster's historic centre we take extra care with the sandstone and follow any conservation guidance.

Councils, housing and schools across Lancashire

We work for Lancashire's county, district and unitary councils, and for the housing associations that hold stock right across the county. Estate work tends to centre on stairwells, garage courts, bin stores, underpasses, boundary walls and play areas, and we work considerately on occupied sites. See how we work with councils and housing associations.

For schools and academy trusts we can work in the holidays or before the school day, and offensive graffiti is treated as a safeguarding priority. Our offensive graffiti removal service covers racist, sexual or threatening graffiti, which we move to the front of the queue. Our coverage page lists every area we work in, including nearby Wigan and Bolton.