Your hoarding is marketing — one way or the other
Nothing on a development site gets tagged like hoarding: long, flat, freshly painted, unattended at night. And nothing undercuts a presale centre like buyers walking past graffiti to reach it. Site cleanliness reads as project competence — to buyers, inspectors, lenders and the neighbourhood association alike.
Prevention checklist — set up at mobilization
- Light it — taggers work fast in the dark; well-lit hoarding on the street face gets hit measurably less
- Skin it — printed mesh, project graphics or commissioned art make hoarding a worse canvas than blank painted plywood
- Record the paint spec — note the exact hoarding colour so paint-overs are invisible instead of a patchwork of almost-matching rectangles
- Coat the permanent surfaces — street-level concrete and masonry that will remain after construction can be protectively coated before occupancy, so the building starts life defended
- Assign the response — decide at kickoff who calls in graffiti and to whom; tags on active sites multiply fast when nobody owns the problem
During the build
Hold the 24–48 hour removal standard (here's why it works). For most sites the practical setup is a project-length arrangement: scheduled passes with colour-matched paint-over or removal included, invoiced flat, so the site super never spends a morning sourcing quotes. At handover, a final sweep plus protective coatings on ground-level surfaces makes a clean gift to the building's new owners — and one less deficiency conversation.