Graffiti Removal & Exterior Cleaning in Leeds

No Graffiti Ltd removes graffiti and cleans building exteriors across Leeds and West Yorkshire. We take paint, tags and posters off brick, stone, shutters and cladding, and we pressure wash, de-gum and protect the surfaces around them so the whole site looks cared for. Call 0161 399 5247 or send photos through our contact page for a same day reply and a free quote.

We have worked since 2001 and completed more than 10,000 projects. Our vans are based in Macclesfield, Cheshire, and we run scheduled visits to Leeds. We are CHAS accredited, fully insured, provide RAMS and COSHH paperwork for every job, and we are open seven days a week.

Whether you manage a single shop, a city centre office block or a portfolio of estates, we can quote from photos, plan the right method for each surface and give you one point of contact for every Leeds site.

Briggate, Trinity Leeds and the Victoria Quarter

The main shopping streets around Briggate, Commercial Street and Albion Street, with Trinity Leeds and the Victoria Quarter alongside, carry some of the heaviest footfall in the north of England. That brings gum on the paving, stickers on every column and tags in the side passages and service yards behind the big stores.

We work early or out of hours so trading is not disturbed, clear shutters and shopfronts before opening, and steam chewing gum off entrances without leaving pale blotches. Shop owners and managing agents can book a single frontage or a whole parade.

Shutters and modern shopfronts need care too. Powder-coated and painted steel can lose its finish if the wrong solvent is used, and anodised aluminium frames mark easily. We test each remover on a small area first, then work in sections so the colour stays even across the whole shutter rather than leaving a clean rectangle where the tag used to be.

Call Lane and the Exchange Quarter after dark

Call Lane and the streets around the Corn Exchange and Kirkgate Market are the heart of the Leeds bar scene. Late opening means a lot of activity after the shutters come down, and the narrow lanes and doorways are tagged and fly-posted regularly.

Bar and restaurant operators usually want three things from us:

• Shutters and doors cleared before evening opening
• Flyers and stickers removed from walls, glazing and street furniture
• Pavement and doorway cleaning to deal with spillages, gum and grime
• Coatings on the walls that are tagged every week

Leeds red brick, sandstone and glazed terracotta

Leeds is a Victorian city built largely in red brick, with civic landmarks such as the Town Hall and the Corn Exchange in stone, and glazed terracotta and faience in the arcades of the Victoria Quarter. Each reacts differently to heat and chemistry. Soft brick and lime mortar can be damaged by high pressure, sandstone stains easily, and glazed faience can be marked by the wrong remover.

We use low pressure steam and hot water at around 150°C from DOFF and ThermaTech systems, with poultices and specialist removers for paint that has soaked into porous stone. A test patch comes first. For whole elevations, stone and masonry cleaning and facade cleaning take off the soot and green staining that have built up over decades.

Holbeck, the South Bank and Leeds Dock

South of the river, Holbeck's mills and warehouses, including the Grade I listed Temple Works, sit alongside new offices and apartments as the South Bank regenerates. Further east, Leeds Dock mixes waterside offices and flats with the Royal Armouries. Hoardings, railway arches and blank new walls all attract tags and fly-posting.

Leeds has commissioned murals too, and we treat them as artwork rather than graffiti. We remove unauthorised tagging only when the owner asks, including tags sprayed over permitted pieces, and we can protect the plain walls nearby. For developers, our construction and developer service keeps hoardings and site frontages clean during a build.

The canal, the Aire and the railway arches

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal starts at Granary Wharf beside the River Aire, and the towpaths, bridges and arches around it and out towards Kirkstall are popular with taggers. Next to water we take extra care over run-off, using chemical-free methods where they will do the job and containing waste water where they will not.

Leeds station and its arches, bridges and retaining walls along the rail lines are another regular problem. Work near rail or highway needs permits, safe access and the right paperwork, which we provide for transport operators and their contractors. Our subway and underpass cleaning covers pedestrian tunnels and walkways.

Waterside work often involves more than one landowner, so we help clients work out who is responsible for which wall before we start. That avoids cleaning one owner's section and leaving the next one tagged.

Kirkstall, Armley and the west Leeds corridor

West of the centre, Kirkstall Road runs out past converted mills, retail parks, studios and new housing towards Kirkstall, with the Kirkstall Forge development and its station further along the valley. Armley and Bramley add terraced streets, local parades and older industrial units. Long roadside walls, bridge abutments and the backs of retail units are tagged often, and the river and canal corridor alongside adds towpath walls and underpasses.

Many west Leeds clients are retail and leisure operators who want car parks, entrances and service yards kept tidy as well as walls. We combine car park cleaning, graffiti removal and pressure washing in one visit, so a retail unit is cleaned top to bottom without several contractors on site.

Headingley, Hyde Park and the Leeds universities

The University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett University bring a large student population, much of it living in Headingley, Hyde Park and Woodhouse. Back-to-back terraces, shared houses, local parades and takeaways see tags on gable ends, stickers on lamp columns and fly-posting on any blank wall.

We clean university and college campuses during holidays or quiet periods, and look after landlords and letting agents with houses across those streets. Street furniture cleaning covers bus shelters, signal boxes, benches and bollards.

Chapel Allerton, Roundhay and the north Leeds parades

North Leeds suburbs such as Chapel Allerton and Roundhay have busy local centres with independent shops, cafes and bars. Graffiti here tends to be smaller in scale: a tag on a shutter, a sticker trail along lamp columns, or paint on a stone boundary wall. It still matters to traders and residents, and it spreads if left.

Many of these buildings use local sandstone and older brick, so we bring the same gentle methods we use in the city centre. Several shops on one parade can share a visit, which keeps the call-out cost per business down.

Council and housing association estates in Leeds

Leeds City Council manages a large housing stock, and housing associations own homes across the district from Seacroft and Harehills to Armley and Beeston. Estate work usually means stairwells, bin stores, garage courts, play areas and boundary walls. We work quietly on occupied sites, by fixed round or on call-off.

Our housing association and council pages explain how we report and evidence work. Hard play surfaces are covered by playground cleaning using products suited to safety surfacing.

Business parks, retail parks and industrial estates

Leeds has large industrial areas at Cross Green and Stourton, business parks such as Thorpe Park, and retail parks along Kirkstall Road and the ring road. Long boundary walls, cladded units and roller doors on quiet roads are easy targets, and service yards gather oil and grime.

We look after industrial estates and business parks and retail parks on a schedule, using industrial pressure washing and forecourt and yard cleaning for heavy traffic areas.

Everything we clean outside Leeds buildings

Graffiti is only part of what makes a building look tired. One contractor covering the whole exterior saves you organising several. In Leeds we offer:

• Graffiti removal from brick, stone, render, metal and glass
• Commercial pressure washing for paving, steps and plazas
• Chewing gum removal from busy pedestrian streets and entrances
• Fly-posting and sticker removal from walls, shutters and columns
• Car park cleaning for surface and multi-storey car parks
• Moss and algae treatment for shaded paths, walls and steps
• Render and cladding cleaning for modern apartment and office blocks
• Commercial exterior cleaning for whole elevations
• Bird fouling removal from ledges, canopies and entrances
• Paint removal for spills, overpainting and old coatings

Coatings and planned maintenance for Leeds portfolios

Anti-graffiti coatings make repeat graffiti quicker and cheaper to remove. Sacrificial coatings come away with the paint and are reapplied, while permanent coatings stay put through many cleans. On historic brick and stone we use breathable products so the wall can still dry out.

A planned maintenance plan combines coatings with visits at a set frequency, keeping costs predictable and frontages consistently clean. LeedsBID's Street Rangers handle a lot of day to day cleaning in the city centre, so property owners often use us for larger, specialist or out of centre work alongside that.

How Leeds jobs are scheduled

Our vans come from Macclesfield, so Leeds work runs on scheduled visits rather than a local depot. We answer every enquiry the same day, group nearby sites to keep travel costs fair, and prioritise offensive, racist or threatening graffiti.

On site we agree access, protect the area, test a small patch, clean and send before and after photos. Clients with property in Sheffield or Manchester can put everything on one programme. Our coverage page lists every area we work in.

Leeds graffiti removal prices explained

Every job has a mobilisation, or call-out, fee of around £200 plus VAT, depending on where the site is, with the treatment priced on top. The treatment price depends on the surface, the size and age of the graffiti, access and whether a coating is worthwhile. Regular contract customers pay less.

Photos and a postcode usually get you a firm price. Our article on what graffiti removal costs covers the details.

When you send photos, include one wide shot of the whole elevation and one close up of the paint, plus the surface type if you know it and anything that affects access, such as height, a busy road or a locked yard. That lets us confirm the method and price quickly.

From a tagged shutter on Call Lane to a whole estate in east Leeds, we pick the right method for the surface, take the graffiti off cleanly and help you keep it off.