Getting ris of clinging Ivy from outer walls of ouse - help please!!

breadlinebetty

Wow some excellent avice from all of you! Many thanks indeed!

CHASINGBUTTERFLIES, thanks for your very detailed post on how you got rid of yours, some great tips there

Likewise LAUREL7172 - great advice again

You've all given fab advice and I agree, although Ivy can look pretty it is just so destructive, and seems so hard to get rid of!!!!:(

pineapple

I live in a row of solid Yorkshire stone cottages. The former next door neighbour had let the stuff grow rampant. We had all on just to get him to cut back the bits encroaching on neighbouring properties :mad:. Anyhow when the new owner moved in, we scared him into taking action with tales of vermin scaling his walls! In fact we helped him get rid - a slow arduous job riving it away from the walls. Fortunately it came away without too much damage - just a bit of scarring. He also had a real job cutting out the stump - I think he could have just used stump killer.
Why do people grow this stuff?

Yorkie1

One warning to use safety goggles to protect your eyes. Ivy can get very dusty, not to mention mortar dust if / when you pull it away or it comes down.

somethingcorporate

We chopped about 6 foot out from the floor up the walls (as far as I could reach without a ladder) and then let it die off. A year later with some gentle encouragement it pretty much just fell off itself. Getting the stump out was hard work though! Picks at the ready!

Getting the live stuff off the wall is absolutely horrible work, billions of spiders, masses of horrible tendrils and sooooooo much dust. I'd happily kill it off and sort it when it's dead. Or pay someone else to do it.

If anyone has any ideas on how to get rid of all the stuff left clinging to the walls would be much appreciated, despite being very dead and brown the tiny little clingers are still holding on strong and I do not want to damage the brickwork by blasting it with something heavy duty.

geoffky

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