Assess Graffiti and Gather Supplies

this is christy idaho painter here on paint life tv today we are doing um kind of a city service getting rid of some graffiti we don't want to allow this to be up here any longer than it has to because it's just unsightly stuff in the city and i just want to encourage painters out there you know this is something you can do for your city to uh just you know take pride in your community take pride um in the city and offer a service out there whether it's paid or whether you're just doing it to um to help the city out and not charge them at all get rid of the graffiti the longer you allow it to sit there the more likely you are going to have issues like this in your city so uh if you're a painter out there you want to do public service you'll offer um this to your city to help with the graffiti removal all i'm going to be doing here is just i got this wall right here it's got some spray paint on it i'm just going gonna be rolling right over it really quick uh i matched it to the building the building is a new color now and i'm gonna do this little block wall to match the building itself a little bit darker don't have to worry about priming just gonna roll it with a nine inch roller it's fast simple and easy to do and it's gonna get rid of this uh unsightly graffiti on the wall here so i'm just gonna scrape off some of the loose peeling paint and then and roll right over it so come along you can also help out [Music] pulling weeds make this look a little bit better also i know some cities out there have a graffiti removal program my city here boise idaho the city itself has graffiti removal a team that does that you could call it in and they'll take care of it usually same day great program um you just don't want to allow this stuff you know to be out very long you know it just encourages them to keep doing it so get rid of it as quick as you can