Sunday, March 29, 2015

Unwanted art: the urban artist and your canvas.

Unwanted art: the urban artist and your canvas.

     Yes they supply the paint, the idea, and the art all you do is supply the canvas. That canvas can be your home's walls, side-walk, or you may have supplied the fence. In most cases you supplying the canvas for the urban artist was not intentional on your part. You did not want this and now what can you do. Cleaned by Pete can help with graffiti removal on residential or commercial properties or sites. It seems that spring does bring out more of the artist than other times of the year. If you have been tagged, bombed or had your property use as a urban canvas give us a call Cleaned by Pete,417.459.7869 let us have a look and see if we can help you. I have published a lot of these pictures on the other blog: http://cleanedbypete.blogspot.com/ but wanted to let our residential house washing customers and perspective customers know we can do graffiti removal also.


After graffiti removal Cleaned by Pete
Before work







Cleaned by Pete graffiti cleaning before.
Cleaned by Pete graffiti cleaning after.


Some or the work Cleaned by Pete can do. There are all kinds of paints and it depend on the surfaces the artist applies his craft to as the results that can be achieved.  The quicker we can get to your graffiti the better the results. Just letting it sit makes it harder to remove it and it also aspirins would-be artist to add their mark to the canvas also.

This stain was left on until an insurance settlement, about one year really cooked on now Cleaned by Pete graffiti removal.
Cleaned by Pete graffiti cleaning before.
Cleaned by Pete graffiti cleaning after.
Cleaned by Pete graffiti cleaning after.
     Just a few more photos of some work Cleaned by Pete has done removing graffiti, tags and bombs.

     Brick wall of a school some satanic writing and symbols that the maintenance department had been working on for several days. Using the wrong cleaners and just a pressure washer can set the paint and drive it into the pours of the surface imbedding the paint till it will not be able to be removed. Cleaned by Pete was able to remove what they could not.
Before then after Cleaned by Pete graffiti removal
Before then after Cleaned by Pete graffiti removal, the maintenance department was able to get it graffiti down to this point in the first half of the photo and could not get it any better. Cleaned by Pete remove the rest.



Cleaned by Pete graffiti before.

Cleaned by Pete graffiti before and while cleaning in progress.

Cleaned by Pete graffiti cleaning after.

Cleaned by Pete graffiti cleaning after.

     Signs are often hit over and over tags from several artist can be layered on top of each other making it harder to remove completely. The sigh below was hit and tagged and re tagged on a regular basics Cleaned by Pete kept removed the tags and they finally stopped hitting this location.

Cleaned by Pete graffiti before.

Cleaned by Pete graffiti before.
Cleaned by Pete graffiti cleaning.
Cleaned by Pete graffiti cleaning after.

Cleaned by Pete graffiti before.

Cleaned by Pete graffiti before.
Cleaned by Pete graffiti cleaning after.



Give Cleaned by Pete a call for any all of your graffiti needs, on your home at your business we remove it where it is.

Cleaned by Pete graffiti removal before / durning.

Cleaned by Pete graffiti removal before / durning.

Cleaned by Pete graffiti removal after

Cleaned by Pete graffiti removal after while drying.


     Even on a log home graffiti will appear everywhere.

Cleaned by Pete graffiti removal after you have to worry about wood and concrete mortar both very different when it comes to removing the art work.
Before a graffiti cleaning / removal from Cleaned by Pete.
After a graffiti cleaning / removal from Cleaned by Pete.

     Concrete
After a graffiti cleaning / removal from Cleaned by Pete.
Before a graffiti cleaning / removal from Cleaned by Pete.
Before a graffiti cleaning / removal from Cleaned by Pete.

     Brick homes, most of these artist are not looking at revenge or are out to single a person or a business out. You happen to be the place they stop and express their art form. I will leave you with these last photos of graffiti on brick. Cleaned by Pete removing graffiti in the greater Springfield and surrounding area in the Greater Ozarks. 417.459.7869

     Please excuse the images below. I have put them last so if you wish you may skip over them. This home was bombed with these images and wording, with foul language on and about the entire home and ran the whole length of the home also. This is about the mildest image to show you the size and impact that Cleaned by Pete removed. What was the worst thing this home was vandalized not random graffiti and turned out to be the wrong home the vandals were looking for a home across the street.


Thursday, March 26, 2015

Wash-a-wash-a-wash-a House washing Springfield MO

Wash-a-wash-a-wash-a House washing Springfield MO

      Here is another home we did in Springfield MO. A two story all washed from the ground safely and softly but most of all responsibly. Cleaned by Pete knows what pressure to use and what is the best way to wash your home. Call us at 417.459.7869 and we can talk over your needs. Now back to this house washing.

     We have a bonus here today, a short video shot while working on this home showing off our newest system. Twin pumps which will help us to serve your cleaning and washing needs even better.



     Here are some photos of the house as I start  the wash.

Cleaned by Pete will kill and remove the molds and mildew from this home in Springfield MO using the new twin pump setup with a safe, soft, responsible, low pressure house wash. Before photo.

Cleaned by Pete will kill and remove the molds and mildew from this home in Springfield MO using the new twin pump setup with a safe, soft, responsible, low pressure house wash. Before photo.

Cleaned by Pete will kill and remove the molds and mildew from this home in Springfield MO using the new twin pump setup with a safe, soft, responsible, low pressure house wash. Before photo.

Cleaned by Pete will kill and remove the molds and mildew from this home in Springfield MO using the new twin pump setup with a safe, soft, responsible, low pressure house wash. Before photo.

Cleaned by Pete will kill and remove the molds and mildew from this home in Springfield MO using the new twin pump setup with a safe, soft, responsible, low pressure house wash. Before photo.
     Now finished the home is cleaned, washed, and free from the contaminants that were growing and making this home look dull and dirty.


After a safe, soft, responsible, low pressure, house washing from Cleaned by Pete Springfield MO.

After a safe, soft, responsible, low pressure, house washing from Cleaned by Pete Springfield MO.

After a safe, soft, responsible, low pressure, house washing from Cleaned by Pete Springfield MO.

After a safe, soft, responsible, low pressure, house washing from Cleaned by Pete Springfield MO.

After a safe, soft, responsible, low pressure, house washing from Cleaned by Pete Springfield MO.
Cleaned by Pete
your home for the safe, soft, responsible, low pressure house wash
serving the greater Springfield and out laying areas in Southwest MO
417.459.7869

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

The urban artist; tags and graffiti

    The urban artist; tags and graffiti, with the warmer weather the urban artist can now stock around once again. Have you been tagged or bombed with graffiti. In most cases Cleaned by Pete can help.


    Called out to help a customer they had been tagged with some foul language on their walk-way, I am not showing the before picture of the wording and language used, needless to say it was in green paint on potpourris concrete. You can't get it all out but we removed most of it and you can not make out what was said. The tag started at the street and ran up the walk-way toward the home.

    Cleaned by Pete removing graffiti and cleaning a bit of sidewalk in the process.

Cleaned by Pete
serving the greater Springfield & surrounding areas
417.459.7869


Cleaned by Pete applied special cleaners to help remove the unwanted art work. This will be followed by power washing the sidewalks.

After the power washing the side walk is cleaned and graffiti is removed, Cleaned by Pete.

Once dry the tag / graffiti is almost unnoticeable, Graffiti and tag removal Cleaned by Pete Springfield MO.

Cleaned by Pete graffiti / tag removal, power washing, concrete cleaning, sidewalk washing, Springfield MO.

During then after photo of graffiti removal. Cleaned by Pete graffiti / tag removal, power washing, concrete cleaning, sidewalk washing, Springfield MO.