Fly-Posting & Sticker Removal

Fly-posting and stickers make an area look neglected just as quickly as graffiti does. A lamppost plastered in slap tags, a phase box layered in old event posters, or a shutter covered in stickers all send the same message: no one is looking after this place. And because these things cluster — one poster invites ten more — a single ignored spot can spread across a whole street.

No Graffiti removes fly-posters, stickers and adhesive residue across Manchester, Greater Manchester and the North West. We clear signage, poles, bins, street furniture, shutters and shop fronts, lifting both the material and the sticky glue it leaves behind — and we match the method to the surface so nothing is damaged in the process.

Why it needs doing properly

The hardest part of sticker and fly-poster removal usually isn't the poster — it's the adhesive left behind. Peel a sticker off in a hurry and you're often left with a sticky grey film that traps dirt and looks almost as bad as the sticker did, or a torn half-sticker that's now even more stubborn. Fly-posting paste bonds hard to the surface and can lift paint or leave a stain if it's tackled the wrong way.

We remove the material completely and then clear the residue properly, so the surface is left genuinely clean rather than marked and tacky. The right approach depends on what's underneath — glass, metal, a painted frame, brick or signage — which is exactly why we assess each surface first.

Where fly-posting and stickers collect

Stickers and fly-posting gather in the busiest, most visible places — which is exactly why they matter so much to how an area feels. We regularly clear them from:

• Signage, poles and wayfinding — the finger-posts, road signs and lampposts that end up layered in slap tags.
• Street furniture and bins — bus shelters, benches, bollards and litter bins around gathering points.
• Shutters and shop fronts — commercial frontages and roller shutters, especially overnight targets.
• Hoardings, walls and utility boxes — the flat surfaces fly-posters are drawn to.

One visit, one clean sweep

Street furniture rarely has just one problem. A single bus shelter might have a tag on the glass, stickers on the frame, fly-posting on the surround and a season's worth of grime over all of it. Because we handle graffiti removal, chewing gum removal and general public space cleaning as well, one team can deal with all of it in a single visit, to one standard — instead of three separate jobs that never quite line up.

Planned rounds or reactive clear-ups

Some fly-posting appears overnight and needs clearing before the public are back through in numbers; some builds up steadily on the same stretch of high street. We handle both — a rapid one-off clear-up, or a scheduled round as part of a wider planned maintenance programme that keeps an area consistently clean. For councils and town-centre managers we can provide simple reporting on completed work, useful for evidencing that the public realm is being maintained.

All work is carried out by fully insured, trained and accredited teams — CHAS, Constructionline Gold and SafeContractor approved — so councils, BIDs and commercial clients across the North West can appoint us with confidence.