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UK’s Telecomms Leader BT Have Their Public Cabinets Protected From Graffiti & Flyposters Thanks To easy-on Anti-graffiti Coating

09/03/2012

Like most places Doncaster’s telecommunications cabinets and street furniture have always been a target for vandals. Graffiti and fly posters often adorn these boxes and since there position is always prominent, on the corner of almost every major road junction, this vandalism can really bring an area down. It has even been suggested that over half the graffiti in any borough can be attributed to street furniture and cabinets.

Recognising this problem Doncaster’s Flyposter, Litter And Graffiti (FLAG) manager, Gareth Barwell contacted various cabinet owners and asked their permission to apply an anti graffiti and fly poster coating to facilitate the speedy and complete removal of any subsequent vandalism.

Permission was granted and after reviewing several coatings the cabinet owners and FLAG settled on easy-on from Urban Hygiene. easy-on was chosen for its superior resistance to both flyposters and graffiti as well as its robust 20 year life.

Five years on and Doncaster’s street furniture and telecom’s cabinets still look as good as they did in their first year and have been regularly cleaned by Doncaster’s graffiti team and a number of youth groups in the area.

Doncaster’s cabinet protection was heralded as a complete success and has been repeated by councils the length and breadth of the UK and has even replicated by the people in charge of the Kaloon railway in China.

N.B. Interestingly over the 5-year period easy-on has also helped to solve a number of other issues which often plague street furniture and cabinets. easy-on has shown exceptional resistance to UV degradation which has helped the cabinets to maintain there good looks and has been shown to resist the effects of uric acid (dog urine) which can often rust away the bottoms of the cabinets and make it necessary to completely replace them – a costly operation.