Graffiti removal across Sydney
Graffiti removal in Sydney, priced by the metre, with the paint leaving in our truck.
Send a photograph of the tag and you get a rate and a date back, not a callback promise. Two published figures below: one for surfaces the paint sits on, one for the masonry it soaks into. And the flakes and the slurry go in the truck, because graffiti removal is paint removal, and paint is a stormwater pollutant.
Two rates, because a wall and a window are not the same job
Non porous surfaces
glass, metal and sealed render
from $40
a square metre, including GST
Masonry
face brick, blockwork and raw concrete
from $60
a square metre, including GST
Anti graffiti coating, sacrificial or permanent
sacrificial or permanent, applied after removal
Quoted after a look
One credible Australian source publishes coating rates. One is not enough to print a number against, so we look first.
Both rates are a floor rather than a finished price, and both sit against the same minimum for an attended job of $249 including GST. A single tag the size of a doormat still costs a drive, a setup, containment and a pack down, and stretching it into a bigger number to look busy is worse than saying so.
What moves a job above the floor is how many coats went on, how long it has been there, whether anybody has already tried something on it, and whether the surface can take the removal at all. All of that goes on the written price, next to the figure, before you agree to anything.
Graffiti removal is paint removal, and that changes the whole job
Every line below is a rule we work to, and it is the reason a tag on a shopfront and a tag on an old painted cottage get different answers.
This is paint removal, and we price it as paint removal
A tag is a coat of paint on somebody else's wall. Calling it cleaning makes it sound like dirt, and dirt is not what comes off. What comes off is pigment, binder and whatever was under it, and all of it has to go somewhere.
The flakes, the slurry and the stripper are contained
Paint is a stormwater pollutant. The wash water, the lifted flakes and any chemical stripper are caught, recovered and taken away, rather than run down the footpath to the nearest pit and out to a creek.
We stop if the paint might be hazardous
If the coating underneath looks like it could be a hazardous paint, the job stops there and you get told why. Carrying on and finding out later is not a thing we are willing to do on somebody else's wall.
Housing painted before 1970 is a lead risk until it is tested
Most Australian homes built before 1970 carry lead paint somewhere. Deteriorating paint on one of them is treated as a lead risk until a test says otherwise, and it is never pressure stripped as though it were routine washing.
A test patch before the whole wall
Removal chemistry that lifts paint will also lift a sealer, a coating or the face of a soft brick. So a small area goes first, out of the eye line, and you see the result before the rest is touched.
The substrate decides the method, not the clock
Glass and powder coated metal give the paint up quickly. Raw brick holds it in the pores and needs more passes at lower force. Pushing a masonry wall harder to finish sooner is how a tag becomes a permanent shadow.
Old paint is the part of this job people get wrong
Lead paint was used in most Australian homes built before 1970. A wand pointed at flaking paint on one of those walls does not clean it, it turns it into dust and spray, and then it is in the garden, on the path and in the drain. So a house of that age is treated as a lead risk until a test says it is not.
That is not a reason we will not help. It is a reason the job changes shape: contained, wet, worked at low force, with the residue captured and removed rather than rinsed away. If that is not what a wall needs, we will say so and you will have lost nothing but a photograph.
What we will not do to get a wall clean
Cement sheet, at any pressure
If the wall is or might be asbestos material, nothing happens to it. High pressure water on asbestos is prohibited and a low pressure chemical wash of it is not a way around that.
Sandstone and heritage masonry from a rate card
Soft, porous, historically significant stone is not band priced work and we will not pretend it is. It gets looked at, or it gets declined.
Blasting a wall to beat a deadline
There is a point where more pressure stops removing paint and starts removing the wall. We stop at that point and tell you what is left, rather than hand back a clean patch of eroded brick.
Five things worth checking, on us or on anybody else
These are not the five things we are best at. They are the five that go wrong, taken from published reviews and forum threads about Sydney operators. Ask them of us. Then ask them of the next quote you get.
The written price is the price on the day
Price rising on arrival is the second most repeated complaint in this trade. You get the figure before we come, and the figure on the invoice is that figure.
A stated method for tile roofs that are not sarked
Water driven through the gaps in an unsarked tile roof is the worst failure in the whole category, and one operator called it normal. It is not normal. Tile is soft washed and the downpipes are handled before we start.
Broken tiles photographed and reported
The pattern in the complaints is damage painted over or glued. A broken tile goes in the report with a photograph, before anything is put back.
We turn up, and we call back
No shows after a quote are the single most repeated complaint across every listing checked. Every booking is confirmed by a person on the phone.
Ask us for the paperwork before you book
This site carries no licence number and no insurance figure, because we will not publish a document we cannot hand you. Ask, and you get the document or a straight answer about what we do not have.
Graffiti removal questions
How much does graffiti removal in Sydney cost?
Non porous surfaces such as glass, metal and sealed render start from $40 a square metre including GST. Masonry such as face brick, blockwork and raw concrete starts from $60 a square metre. The same minimum for an attended job applies, $249, because a single small tag still costs a trip, a setup and a pack down.
Why does brick cost more than glass?
Because paint on glass or powder coated metal is sitting on top of the surface, and paint on raw brick or blockwork is inside it. Porous masonry takes more passes, more dwell time and more care, and the honest way to show that is two rates rather than one average that is wrong for both.
Is graffiti removal the same as pressure washing?
No. It is paint removal. That changes what comes off the wall, where it is allowed to go and when the work has to stop, which is why this page reads differently from the rest of the site.
What happens to the paint you take off?
It is contained and taken away. Paint flakes, the slurry and any chemical stripper are stormwater pollutants, so the work area is bounded, the water is recovered and none of it is allowed into a drain.
Can you remove paint from an old painted house?
Not as routine washing. Most Australian houses built before 1970 have lead paint somewhere in them, so deteriorating paint on one is treated as a lead risk until it has been tested, and it does not get pressure stripped. That is a controlled and contained job or it is not our job.
Do you apply anti graffiti coating afterwards?
It is quoted after a look. We found one credible Australian source for coating rates and one source is not enough to publish a number against, so the coating is priced once we have seen the wall, the exposure and how often it is being hit.
How fast can you get to a tag?
Send a photograph and we will come back with a figure and a date. The diary is open now and the first jobs run from 29 October 2026.
Send a photograph of the wall
One close enough to read the paint and one wide enough to show what it is on. That is usually all it takes to price it. The minimum for an attended job is $249.