About to start a month-long job in a questionable side of town. This area used to be safe but is spiraling downward and lately has fallen prey to kids spray painting fences and such.
I am worried about my trailer getting “tagged” and am trying to think ahead. I was thinking I could spray my trailer with a silicone or somthing, so that if I do get tagged the paint will come right off.
I was wondering if anybody has an idea for me. I cant watch my trailer all day. I cant leave it home.
thanks
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I think there are paints with Teflon or something--schools use them and public buildings too. Maybe contact a school or your local government. Perhaps a janitorial supply would have paint that repels graffiti. They would also have the stuff used to remove graffiti!
[A guy was just caught here spray painting bad words on the jail! He did it a year ago and was caught and got probabation! Seems like he really wanted to live in the place!]
cutawooda,,
a heavy coat of wax is your best bet.. use old fashioned Turtle wax paste.
However tagging is likely to be the least of your issues..
Break ins are normal in those tow behind trailers.. A large bolt cutters and snip there goes the locks.. However you'll be lucky if they don't take your whole trailer!
One trailer I saw was wedged under their telehandler with the boom over the back end to secure the trailer. They used a sharp knife to slice the aluminum skin away and reached in and grabbed every last tool.. then sliced off enough aluminum siding to make a visit to the scrap dealer worthwhile..
Frankly I'd plan on hauling it home every night..
There are specialized graffiti coatings. I don't know how they would look on a trailer. Wax can be displaced by the solvents in the spray paint. Vandals and thieves are likely to do more damage than just graffiti to your trailer. I think I'd rent a ground level container for the job rather than risk my trailer.
http://ndclean.com/graffitishield.htm?gclid=CNONoL6J4JICFRUvlgod-Vgr-Q
Beat it to fit / Paint it to match
what about throwing up a wall/fence around it.tight to the sides and sheet in osb. you could probably throw something up a lot quicker than cleaning paint off later. import cars come in with cosmolein sprayed on them washes off with a soap water solution.paint wouldn't stick,plus it wouldn't rust!!!!!
my vote is to drag it out of there every night,this is one disadvantage to trailers. larry
if a man speaks in the forest,and there's not a woman to hear him,is he still wrong?
There are anti-graffitti paints or coatings available. I think Protect has one
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Just another thought you could get a vinyl skin to put on to protect it but that is just another cost....
Frenchy is right ..... some graffiti is the least of your worries.
When I worked on jobs down in the metro area of MN ( as we were from outstate and stayed in motels at night ....so no better) we would park the trailer so the side door was blocked by the building and then put our Lull against the back door and a pile of lumber in front of the hitch.
the persistant thieves would still get in. Cordless tools make easy work of breaking into about anything.
Did you know that a 22oz framing hammer with a precise swing will open many a padlock?
I work for a trailer dealer and we have yet to find a lock that is totally vandal proof.
Good Luck in what ever you decide.
Ebe
Ebe,
Did I sell you your Lull? When I was selling Lulls and Cats for Ziegler I'd sell as many as 50 a year of Lulls and 50 Cats (I coulda sold a lot more but that's all they'd let me sell. :-(
Sorry to admit it But I lost track of a lot of my customers from Ziegler. They kept my customer list when they fired me..
I was just a slave, workin for the man with all the money. He may have.
Kevin with K & S out of Fergus Falls would have been whom you dealt with.
Ebe
Let the monsters paint it...
...and hope they don't steal it!
The best reward for a job well done is the opportunity to do another.
Cover it with a thick coat of Vaseline?
Paint won't stick and they'll be grossed out and confused when they touch it. buic
just stock up on graffiti remover.
my box van gets sprayed at least twice a year.
it's been safely at the mechanics for a while ...
gonna get it back in a week or so ... just in time for the spring "tagging season"!
oh joy ...
and I gotta stock up too.
I came home about 30 minutes after the last go-round.
got my next door neighbors garage and the car next to them.
I loaned my last spray bottle to the neighborhood.
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Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
catch it fresh and it comes off easy.
still a pain in the ####.
I dream of a day of a graffiti sprayed van covered in a punk teenagers blood ...
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
You could revert to the old fashioned method, bring only what you'll need each day, in the truck, and take it all inside as soon as you arrive.