SOME people see graffiti as art while many people see it as an eyesore.

Graffiti Buster Ted Bickford covers a monumental area of over 10,000 square kilometres from the Great Lakes all the way up to the Queensland border in a role which he hopes will discourage people from doing it.

"In a three-year period in the Great Lakes we have created a system that absolutely works," he said.

"The system is simply that nothing stays on for longer than 24 hours. I go out at 4am every morning and do the whole of the town; make sure it's right.

"I went out and did a circuit before we came up to Port on Wednesday and we cleaned off nothing. That is purely and simply because we have educated the young people that graffiti is unacceptable and we have educated the young people to have absolute pride in their town. It's not just a case of taking graffiti completely off, it's a case of trying to stop them from doing it in the first place. We have achieved that to a great degree with the system we operate."

Mr Bickford said he felt his system had worked because he took an "all or nothing" attitude when it came to graffiti removal.

"As soon as I spot graffiti it comes off I don't care," he said.

"You can't say 'I'm going to clean this off here, but I'm not going to do that bit over there.' It doesn't matter what it is, where it is or how it is, it comes off. The system will not work unless you do that.

"Young people are smart enough to know if you take it off RTA signs but you don't take it off Mid Coast Water they'll just do Mid Coast Water. We have absolute zero tolerance. I cover the whole of the Great Lakes about 10,000 square kilometres and it works because people in those towns will not accept graffiti."

In doing graffiti removal for the last 20 years, Mr Bickford said he had worked out which chemicals he had to use to take graffiti off vinyl, concrete walls or any other surface.

"I've perfected what takes what off. I don't care what you put up, I'll be able to get it off," he said. "I have a firm belief that nobody has the right to damage other people's property."