Graffiti Removal for Utilities & Telecoms Companies

Utilities and telecoms companies own thousands of small, highly visible objects sitting on pavements and verges across the region. Nobody thinks about a cabinet until it is covered in tags, at which point it becomes the most conspicuous thing on the street and the subject of a complaint to the council, which then arrives with you. The asset itself is working perfectly. The problem is entirely one of appearance, community relations and brand.

No Graffiti cleans distributed street-level assets across Greater Manchester and Cheshire on a basis that actually makes economic sense: planned routes covering many assets per visit, methods matched to cabinet finishes, and photographic records tied to your own asset references so the work is evidenced without creating an administrative job at your end.

Small assets, disproportionate visibility

A tagged cabinet is at eye level on a footway that hundreds of people walk past every day. It carries your name or your livery, and it sits in a residential street where people are already inclined to feel that infrastructure is imposed on them rather than provided for them. Graffiti turns a neutral object into evidence that the owner is not maintaining it — and that reading feeds directly into complaints, council correspondence and objections when you next want to place equipment nearby.

Cleaning promptly is a cheap way to avoid all of that. It costs very little relative to the equipment itself, it is the most visible possible demonstration that assets are being looked after, and it makes the next conversation with a local authority considerably easier.

Route-based delivery, not one asset at a time

The reason distributed assets go uncleaned is almost always mobilisation cost. Sending a team out to deal with a single cabinet is hard to justify, so it waits, and then there are forty of them. Planning work as a route changes the economics entirely — a day spent working through a cluster of assets across a few boroughs costs a fraction per asset of doing them individually, and it clears a backlog rather than nibbling at it.

The assets we clean

Street-level infrastructure comes in a narrow range of finishes and a wide range of conditions:

• Cabinets, kiosks and pillars in painted steel, GRP and stainless, cleaned without dulling the finish.
• Sticker and fly-poster removal including the adhesive residue that is usually left behind.
• Substation enclosures and compound walls, which attract larger pieces because they are flat and quiet.
• Anti-graffiti coatings on the repeat-target assets, so future cleans take minutes rather than a mobilisation.

Records that match your systems

Evidence matters more here than on most sites, because the asset is usually the subject of a complaint that somebody has to be seen to answer. We record work against your own asset or location references with dated before-and-after photographs, so a response to a council or a member of the public can be assembled without anyone reconciling a list of street names against a work sheet.

We are fully insured, hold CHAS accreditation and provide RAMS covering footway and highway working, since most of these assets sit in public space. Our teams work out of Macclesfield across Greater Manchester and Cheshire East — the towns we cover are on our areas we cover page.