Chris S wrote:
"TheScullster" wrote in message
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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.

TIA
Phil
Time is also a "good thing" in removing the marks - either that or
I've got used to them. :-)

I am urg's resident sadder but wiser man when it comes to ivy (my
mother warned me, but would I listen? That's kids for you.). I'd say
leave the bits for a couple of years to rot a bit, and then go at
them with a paint-scraper. Tedious in the extreme, I know, but a
bally sight less tedious than the near-impossibility of getting them
off once you've weakened and splashed a coat of paint on top of
them -- when I did the latter, I had to sell the house to get rid of
them.

--
Mike.