Can you graffiti your own house

Often you can see spray painted tags on public mailboxes, fences, and other property just about anywhere. Have you dealt with a similar issue in your neighborhood? Tell us about it! Email Save Comment Featured Answer. Mary Sheehan Zsemlye 8 years ago. I live in an area where someone owns an old building and welcomes artists to do this in his building.

Meets you there lets you in and leaves. No gangs or thugs-not sure how he decides who can paint. Like 5 Save. Sort by: Oldest. Newest Oldest. A Gang Tagger got my car door just before dawn. Called the Sheriff, who wrote info and took photos. Called insurance company.

Started driving to the auto body shop. On the way, I explained to all drivers at stoplights who were looking at me driving along with black spray paint tag on the driver's door that it happened overnight and I was on my way to the body shop. Fortunately for me, the car was still cool, and there was a product they could use to wipe off the spray paint.

Like 1 Save. Old graffiti in garage Like 4 Save. I am still trying to use your app on the iPhone. White tags fade in every time I swipe to a new photo. I am glad for the info but do not want to sacrifice the browsing experience for it. I don't have a chance to see and admire the photo and discover that I want the item info before the tag is thrown up to obscure the item.

I know to search further into the image if I like an item or designer, the info needs to be available through a click I keep returning to your service in hopes that it is working better but the flashing tags keep sending me back to a Google image search or Pinterest. Please fix. Need professional opinion on siding installation issues Q.

I suggest you bullet point your house tale. What is even more bothersome, is that when we called him out on it, he saw nothing wrong with his work.

Said this is common practice above a fridge because it is not in an area that is likely to get banged. I could have MAYBE accepted an apology and an admission that he screwed this up but this attitude is unacceptable. I haven't heard back, and that was last week so I'm guessing he knows he's fired. Charles Erb: Just looking at the contractor's website, I would not have used him. No physical address of an office.

Although I did find it by doing a search through the phone number. It comes up as Quakertown PA. BBB has no reviews on this company. The BBB file was opened I'm sure you checked to see if they had a license considering what they advertise for services. The fourth one was in All 4 ratings were 5 and basically copied each other. And his website is also through Yahoo which can be easily set up for a small monthly fee. Clark's Home Services was set up with Yahoo in From what I can tell he is basically a handyman but probably not licensed.

I found too many things that told me to look elsewhere for a handyman DIY. Depending on the amount, you may have to file a small claim lawsuit in court. I haven't had any on my own home or property, but there is an electrical box at the end of my street that consistently gets nailed. Like Save.

Nancy Travisinteriors 8 years ago. I live in a area, where there are only 7 colors to paint your house, if by chance someone did spray graffiti.

The graffiti police. I think some of it is beautiful. And the artist have real talent. When done in a certain area, with permission, I see it as art. But, not on someone's house or car.

I don't like the tagging by gang members in black spray paint that is awful. The house next door is surrounded by a tall stucco wall that constantly gets tagged. Nothing artistic, just black letters no one can read. The graffiti cleanup guy was out the other day cleaning our sidewalk with a power washer. I'd never seen one with that much pressure, but it took the paint right up. I do think some of it is beautiful, and I think what Banksy does is brilliant, but it only belongs where permitted by the property owner.

I guess its being illicit, though, is part of the allure for painters. ASVInteriors 8 years ago. Went to see banksy exhibit in Bristol a few years ago, loved it. In Paris there is a building to be demolished but they invited graffiti artists to paint inside and out.

The viewing lines are 8 hours long! No graffiti is art to me and it really irks me when it is considered such. Graffiti equals criminal vandalism! The amount of money spent by cities and business owners trying to remove graffiti is a complete crime.

I have rental property that is now the home of the Costa Mesa Locos who regularly tag the building and try to intimidate the tenants. We have painted the building with Graffiti Shield and are constantly removing it.

I also work in San Francisco where the freeway signs are routinely sprayed completely over so that nobody can read them. Just writing about this makes my blood pressure go up!

Like 2 Save. Sorry to hear that mcbriec, I agree that much of the graffiti art is random and worthless, but every now and then I am driving along and I see some really good art that actually cheers me up. I also like it if it is ironic like Banksy. Do people go to jail for graffiti? What percent of graffiti is illegal?

Do graffiti artists get caught? Do police track graffiti? How do you graffiti without getting caught? What happens if you get caught Graffiting? Is graffiti always a crime? In which city is graffiti legal? Can you graffiti your own house? What makes a graffiti illegal?

Can you spray paint your own property? Is graffiti illegal Los Angeles? Add a few arcs of white paint to indicate light reflection on the sides of letters or pictures facing the graffiti's closest window or main light source. Cover every exposed surface -- floor, surrounding walls, furniture -- in the space with drop cloths to avoid staining from over-sprayed or drifting paint.

Refer to the spray can for instructions on use and safety, which may include wearing breathing apparatus or a dust mask and safety glasses, as well as directions to shake the can before and during use. Fill in the sketch using the desired colors. Hold the can three or four inches from the wall to make thin lines, and about one foot away to cover large areas or make wide lines. Depress the nozzle in short bursts.

Move the can fluidly for even paint distribution and to avoid drips. You can tilt the can in any direction for a few seconds, if needed, but frequently work from a vertical position to allow paint to enter the inner tube.

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