Stone Graffiti Removal
We remove graffiti from stone buildings across London, seven days a week, and we are on site within three hours of your go-ahead. Portland stone facades in the City, limestone and sandstone frontages, polished granite and marble shopfronts, listed buildings, churches and memorials. Every job gets one fixed price before we start and a method chosen for that exact stone, so the tag comes off and the surface underneath stays as it was.
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Stone Graffiti Removal Across London, Within Three Hours
As soon as you give us the go-ahead, a crew is on its way. Our vans carry their own water and power, so we draw nothing from your building and nobody from your team has to meet us. Early mornings, evenings and weekends cost the same as a weekday slot, which means a frontage marked overnight can be clean before the doors open.
Stone is where most graffiti contractors get it wrong. Brick forgives a heavy hand. Stone does not. A pressure washer that clears a tag from a shutter will open the joints on a Portland stone pier, leave a pale ghost on limestone and take the polish off granite for good. We are stone specialists first, and that is the whole reason owners and managing agents call us instead of a general cleaning firm.
Recent Graffiti Removal From Stone Projects
The Stone We Clean
Each stone takes graffiti differently and needs a different method to release it. Choose yours for the full service:
| Portland stone graffiti removal | The pale limestone of the City and Westminster. Acid-free methods only, so no etching and no bleached patches. |
| Limestone graffiti removal | Bath stone and softer limestones that stain easily. pH-neutral treatments that lift paint without drawing it deeper. |
| Sandstone graffiti removal | A porous stone that pits under pressure. Low-pressure work and poultices that pull pigment out of the grain. |
| Granite graffiti removal | Polished stallrisers, plinths and flamed paving. No abrasives, so the finish keeps its shine. |
| Marble graffiti removal | Pub facades, lobbies and memorial tablets. No acids, which would strip the polish in minutes. |
| York stone graffiti removal | Paving, steps and forecourts. Cleaned without scouring the surface or leaving a clean square in a weathered floor. |
| Cast stone graffiti removal | Reconstituted stone that looks like Portland but behaves differently. We identify it before we quote. |
Not sure what your building is made of? You do not need to know. Tell us the address when you request a quote and we will work it out before a price is set.
What Goes Wrong When Stone Is Cleaned Badly
The cheapest-looking quote on stone is often the most expensive one you will pay for. These are the problems we are regularly called in to fix after another contractor has been:
- Ghosting, where the paint is gone but a faded outline of the tag stays in the stone for years.
- Pale patches, where high pressure has stripped the weathered surface and left a clean rectangle that never matches the wall.
- Open mortar joints, blown out by a lance and letting water into the wall behind.
- Dulled polish on granite and marble, from abrasives or acidic cleaners that cannot be undone on site.
- Lost carving and arrises on moulded stone, where the detail went with the paint.
- A breach of consent on a listed building, and a repair bill that follows it.
If a previous clean has already left a shadow, our graffiti shadow and ghosting removal service lifts what was left behind.
How We Remove Graffiti From Stone
We start with the gentlest method that will work and only step up if it does not. On most stone jobs that means one of four approaches, and the one we choose is named in your quote before we arrive:
| DOFF superheated steam | High temperature at very low pressure. Softens paint on stone and brick without abrasion or chemicals. |
| TORC low-pressure vortex | A gentle swirling mix of air, water and fine granulate for textured and weathered stone. |
| Poultice | A paste that sits on porous stone and draws the pigment back out of the pores, rather than pushing it further in. |
| Dry ice | Cleans without water, for stone that must stay dry or sits beside interiors and electrics. |
Before the full clean on any sensitive stone, we run a trial patch so you can see the result on your own building first. Both headline methods are available as a standalone service through our DOFF and TORC graffiti removal team.
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Stone Buildings We Work On
The building type changes who signs off the job, when we can work and how much care the fabric needs. We run dedicated services for each:
- Listed building graffiti removal, with a trial patch, the method named up front and consent handled with you.
- Stone shopfront graffiti removal, finished before you open, with no need to close and nobody from the unit on site.
- Church graffiti removal, booked around your services and signed off through your own governance.
- War memorial and monument graffiti removal, with offensive marks treated as urgent.
Listed buildings and scheduled monuments usually need consent before graffiti can be removed. We tell you at quote stage whether yours is likely to, and we work with you on the paperwork so the job is never held up on the day.
For Facilities Managers, Managing Agents And Estates
If you look after stone-fronted offices, retail parades or a whole estate, the clean is only half of what you are buying. The other half is paperwork that clears procurement first time and stands up to an audit later. Every quote comes with it as standard:
- A method statement naming the technique for your stone and the reason it was chosen.
- A site-specific risk assessment covering access and the footway, not only the operative.
- COSHH data for every product that will touch the building.
- Our £10m public liability certificate, dated and sent alongside your quote.
- A fixed price you can raise a purchase order against, with no provisional sums.
- A completion report with dated before and after images of the stone, and a record of the method used.
For portfolios that get hit repeatedly, a stone graffiti removal contract gives you a set response time, one reporting channel and invoices split by site for service charge recovery.
How Pricing Works
You get one fixed figure, not a range. It is set once we know the stone, the size of the mark and how we reach it, and it already includes the trial patch, any repeat poultice visits, access equipment and making good afterwards. The only thing that can change it is something nobody could have known in advance, such as an old coating failing underneath the paint. If that happens, we stop and speak to you before going any further.
There is no survey fee, no site visit to arrange and no charge for the quote itself. The fastest route is our stone graffiti removal quote form.
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Offensive And Urgent Graffiti On Stone
Racist, abusive or obscene graffiti on a stone frontage cannot wait for a quiet slot. We treat it as urgent, attend within three hours and, where the stone allows, remove it in a single visit. If the full clean needs a poultice to sit for longer, we screen the offensive content first, so it is out of sight while the stone is treated properly.
Protecting Stone After The Clean
If the same wall gets marked again and again, removal alone keeps costing you. A breathable anti-graffiti coating for stone means the next tag sits on the coating instead of in the stone, so it comes off faster and more gently. We can remove the graffiti and apply the coating in a single visit.
We will also tell you when a coating is the wrong answer. On soft unpainted stone, or a frontage marked once every couple of years, it is not worth the money, and we would rather say so than sell it to you.
Why London Owners Choose DUA For Stone
We work to the same standard for a single shop as we do for national accounts including Pret, Chestertons, Iceland, Coca-Cola, StayCity, Ibis Hotel, McDonald's, Kwik Fit and WeWork Waterloo. We are rated 5.0 from 42 Google reviews and carry £10m public liability cover. What owners tell us they value is simple: the price we quote is the price we invoice, and we arrive when we said we would.
You can see the kind of work involved in our stone graffiti removal case studies, and for an urgent tag on any surface our same-day graffiti removal service covers the whole of London.
Where We Work Across London
We clean stone in every London borough. Some of our most regular stone work is in the City, Westminster and Kensington, where Portland stone and limestone frontages meet heavy footfall, and in the historic streets around Holborn, Hatton Garden, the Barbican and Dalston:
- Graffiti removal in the City of London
- Graffiti removal in Whitehall
- Graffiti removal in Kensington
- Heritage stone graffiti removal in Holborn
- Historic stonework graffiti removal in Hatton Garden
- Stone graffiti removal in the Barbican
- Stone graffiti removal in Dalston
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Stone Graffiti Removal: Frequently Asked Questions
How Much Does Stone Graffiti Removal Cost?
It depends on the stone, the size of the mark and how we reach it, so we give you one fixed figure rather than a price list that would be wrong for your building. There is no charge to quote.
How Quickly Can You Attend?
Within three hours of your confirmation, seven days a week, anywhere in London.
Will Removing Graffiti Damage My Stone?
Not with the right method. We choose it for your stone, test it on a trial patch where the stone is sensitive, and never use high pressure or acids on stone that cannot take them.
Can You Remove A Shadow Left By Another Contractor?
Yes. Ghosting from a previous clean is one of the most common jobs we are called in for.
Do You Work On Listed Buildings?
Yes. We name the method in advance, run a trial patch and work with you on any consent the building needs.
Do We Need To Close Or Be On Site?
No. We bring our own water and power, and nobody from your building needs to be there.
Can You Stop It Happening Again?
On walls that are hit repeatedly, a breathable anti-graffiti coating makes every future clean faster and gentler. We will tell you honestly whether it is worth it for your building.
Do You Offer Contracts For Multiple Sites?
Yes. We run stone graffiti removal contracts for estates, managing agents and facilities teams, priced per site with a set response time.