Neighbour removed my ivy

Doozergirl

You should start your own thread, but if the house is empty then I'd be accessing next door and doing what was needed.

Best to let it die on the wall and shrivel a bit before pulling it off, but I hear the wait for that can be a bit of a long one.

Fire_Fox

swinstan wrote: »

I'm in the same position as the original poster, except I'm the neighbour who owns the wall. The ivy in our case has reached the roof and has started to grow inbetween the roofing slates. The house was built in 1905 so the ivy on the wall is likely to be causing a problem too. To be clear, the boundary is the wall itself. The house is not occupied so I have no-one to approach. I tried the sales agent but they weren't helpful. I can with step ladders and long handled loppers reach from my property to cut some of the stems, although not all. I am minded to to this to minimise damage to the roof in particular. I did think of the land registry to contact the owner, but he is recently deceased. Any advice at all would be appreciated.

The estate agents may not be willing to supply information because it would breach data protection legislation.

Write a brief letter, addressed to the executor(s) of or new owner(s) of [add the address]. One copy to the house itself, second care of the estate agent.

If nobody picks up the post, or has it forwarded by Royal Mail, and the estate agent does not bother to pass your letter on, that is not your fault. But someone should be checking the mail: settling bills and paying creditors is part of part of winding up an estate.

If you want to prove your attempts to make contact, send the two letters Signed For.

swinstan

Thanks for all the advice. the main problem is that I can't get to it. Locked house and 6 foot wall with razor wire. Hence the ladder and 3 feet long branch loppers. All the debris will fall behind the wall but as was said, I have tried to make contact.

BadDebtor

If you have ivy that is in your garden then take the ends that spawn into your garden and put them into a jam jar of a systemic weedkiller, take as many as you can into jars.

This will take a few weeks but it will kill the plant if you get the right kind of weedkiller, it also makes it easier to remove from the wall.

This is far more effective than cutting back.

I cut back ivy for years down the side of my house, then was given this tip and it killed the whole lot, was so much easier to remove once dead.