Tennant kids drawing on walls and floor

Hi PC brains trust,

Curious to know what you think is a reasonable course of action here. Tennants moving out in 4 weeks time, I went round on the weekend to inspect the property and noticed fairly significant kids drawing on the interior walls and the concrete carport floor.

Wall drawing looks to be a blue biro, carport red permanent marker.

My plan is to ask them to clean this all off but I suspect they will struggle to get it off, it looks like they have had a try already in a few spots. The concrete perhaps could be gurneyed or use concrete cleaner but it is more the interior walls I am concerned about.

In that case what is a reasonable penalty to charge for this damage? To properly fix I suspect would require repainting multiple walls of the house which wouldn’t be cheap, I’m not super fussy about minor wear and tear but it does look pretty crappy.

Is it reasonable if they can’t fix for me to arrange repainting of the affected walls and recharge cost to them?

 

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I wouldn't worry about the concrete, although the texta could possibly be minimised with a cleaning solution.
there are paintbrush cleaning solutions at the hardware store that should dissolve it.

you could try cleaning the walls (rubbing alcohol), but i have found it will still be slightly visible unless you paint and seal over it.
your bond should more than cover any painting costs, or you could just do it yourself and put it down to the joys of parenthood.

 

Biro is painful to overpaint, it bleeds through. Walls will require repainting, so contact a painter sooner rather than later.

 

Agree with @wylie and @bmc suggestions above...
As a rugrat owner I recommend Jiff and some judicious elbow grease for the walls and soak some degreaser and pressure wash the concrete....
You will find out just what quality your "wash and wear" paint is....

Take it out of bond if not cleaned before...
Walls look pretty ordinary anyway so maybe a good time to freshen it up a bit....??

 

1. Notice to Remedy Breach - this is damage to the property
2. Entry notice to check if Breach has been remedied
3. Quote from cleaner to clean/painter to repaint if can't be cleaned
4. Exit condition report, if bad, claim against bond, if insufficient bond claim through xCAT in parallel to that landlords insurance claim also

Nb. the longer it stays the harder it is to get off. There is a thing with certain textas and pens - it never comes out, you can clean it, paint over it, it leaches through. This is common on the 'tradie mayhem' fb page where builders will write bad stuff on the walls, the painters will paint it - it will look good but in a few weeks its coming through the paint.

 

Thanks all, good advice and probably aligned with the course of action I was thinking as well. Just needed a sense check to see if this was reasonable.

 

Cut those drawings out of the wall.

Have the kids hold the cutting with their parents and take a photo.

Keep the cutting for 20 years on the chance that the budding artist kids makes it big and you clean up.

In the mean time have the tenants pay for the repairs.

 

lol...you have walls still, what you worry about ?