Have recently moved into a new house which was covered in ivy - you will no
doubt be aware this looks great but causes a lot of damage to
brickwork,guttering etc. After much hard work, have managed to get it all
pulled off, but am left with the horrible brown tendrils all over the walls.
Is there anything that can be used to get this off ? Would appreciate any help
as short of getting the house pebble dashed I am at a loss !

"TALISMAN9" wrote in message
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Have recently moved into a new house which was covered in ivy - you will
no
doubt be aware this looks great but causes a lot of damage to
brickwork,guttering etc. After much hard work, have managed to get it all
pulled off, but am left with the horrible brown tendrils all over the
walls.
Is there anything that can be used to get this off ? Would appreciate any
help
as short of getting the house pebble dashed I am at a loss !

I have used a power washer, with the output set to a wide shape V rather
than a point, with some reasonable success but be _very_ careful on the
mortar.
I also saw someone removing it just last week on a building I was visiting,
with a paint or wallpaper scraper. I can see that might work well on very
smooth bricks.

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Have recently moved into a new house which was covered in ivy - you will no
doubt be aware this looks great but causes a lot of damage to
brickwork,guttering etc. After much hard work, have managed to get it all
pulled off, but am left with the horrible brown tendrils all over the walls.
Is there anything that can be used to get this off ? Would appreciate
any help
as short of getting the house pebble dashed I am at a loss !

It will gradually disappear. Next spring the birds will try to get as
much off as they can for nesting material.

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Frère Jaques
They knocked the Bell down and erected a charade of pops.

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Have recently moved into a new house which was covered in ivy - you will
no
doubt be aware this looks great but causes a lot of damage to
brickwork,guttering etc. After much hard work, have managed to get it
all
pulled off, but am left with the horrible brown tendrils all over the
walls.
Is there anything that can be used to get this off ? Would appreciate
any help
as short of getting the house pebble dashed I am at a loss !

It will gradually disappear. Next spring the birds will try to get as
much off as they can for nesting material.


I had dead stems of viginia creeper on a side wall of my house for 9 years
(I'm not very keen on going up ladders and certainly not just for some dead
stems). Maybe the birds in Reading are less enthisiastic nest builders than
where you live?

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pulled off, but am left with the horrible brown tendrils all over
the
walls.
Is there anything that can be used to get this off ? Would
appreciate any help
as short of getting the house pebble dashed I am at a loss !

It will gradually disappear. Next spring the birds will try to get as
much off as they can for nesting material.


I had dead stems of viginia creeper on a side wall of my house for 9
years (I'm not very keen on going up ladders and certainly not just
for some dead stems). Maybe the birds in Reading are less enthisiastic
nest builders than where you live?

I can't beat that, but after 3 years we gave in and painted over our ivy
tendrils. That was after scrubbing the wall hard with wire brushes and
soap for some considerable time, which got off a few of the looser
tendrils, but left a good few remaining.

Our wall was not flat, but had a slightly textured effect to which they
clung like mad. A couple of coats of paint over the top, though, and they
were gone.

Victoria

pulled off, but am left with the horrible brown tendrils all over
the
walls.

I have found that a broad-bladed paint scraper used at the correct angle is
quite effective at removing the tendrils without damaging the wall.





Tony

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pulled off, but am left with the horrible brown tendrils all over
the
walls.

I have found that a broad-bladed paint scraper used at the correct
angle is quite effective at removing the tendrils without damaging the
wall.

.... but only if you have a flat wall. If the wall is textured, you cannot
use a scraper: even a wire brush is ineffective.

Victoria