TheScullster wrote:
:: Is there an effective way to remove the strange patterns left on a
:: painted brick wall by ivy?
:: I cut down a fair amount of the stuff yesterday and it leaves marks like
:: leaf skeletons where the tendrils have been stuck.
:: Intend to clean and repaint the wall in due course.

If you paint over them[1] it will look hideous (even more hideous than it
does now)...leave them for a few years to become brittle and dried and then
you can remove them with much work and pain by using scrapers, wire brushes
and a jet wash, failing that get a different wall covering plant, one that
isn't as invasive as ivy.

[1]
Paint will merely preserve them where they are.


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