Removing ivy from house wall

JEN22

will roundup kill ivy?

Davesnave

JEN22 wrote: »

will roundup kill ivy?

Yes, but only with some difficulty, because it has a waxy surface to the leaves. Painting it on in wallpaper paste is one possible idea, or roughing-up the leaves first with something like a few touches from a strimmer is another. New leaves will take up the glyphosate more easily than old too.

I'm sure others may have different suggestions.

thescouselander

We had a bad ivy problem on our garden fence. First of all I went at it with a strimmer to make lots of cuts in the ivy and then I dropped a shed load of weed killer on it. A couple of weeks later it was sufficiently dead to be removed without too much bother.

andrewf75

I'd be inclined to leave ivy unless really causing problems. I think the advice is that unless the brickwork is in a poor state it won't damage the walls in fact it arguably protects it from the elements and provides extra insulation as well as looking good and being good for wildlife.

Davesnave

andrewf75 wrote: »

I'd be inclined to leave ivy unless really causing problems. I think the advice is that unless the brickwork is in a poor state it won't damage the walls in fact it arguably protects it from the elements and provides extra insulation as well as looking good and being good for wildlife.

But this is not brick-work; it's render, and it will need painting every 7- 8 years or so.

Slinky

andrewf75 wrote: »

I'd be inclined to leave ivy unless really causing problems. I think the advice is that unless the brickwork is in a poor state it won't damage the walls in fact it arguably protects it from the elements and provides extra insulation as well as looking good and being good for wildlife.

Depends whether you like your wildlife to be spiders.......