Front door steps weeds growing but coming into house : who do I contact to sort out?

housebuyer143

Rosate 360. That stuff kills knotweed, it can certainly take on those weeds. I use the stuff and it literally kills them dead to never return.

daveyjp

Glyphosate is needed as it will travel to the roots.

TELLIT01

Getting hold of glyphosate based weedkiller can be difficult now.  Most supplies to the public no longer use glyphosate.

noideapleasehelp

Hi to you all.  

Thank you so very much for replying to my post.  I cannot thank you enough.  I envy your skills as DIY-ers and thank you for all your advice which I will follow.  

To anyone reading this post without the skills, who is less than 70, I'm an oldie and wish I'd was younger because developing DIY skills if you own a house/flat will save you loads of money.  The guys on this site are testament to that.  I got caught in the low income, constantly having to rent because no deposit trap and could only get myself out of that buying a reno in my late 60s.  I've been lucky enough to do and I'm still working to support my mortgage. If only there was a part-time course that was available for people like me to get the confidence.

However, you guys are here and have been brilliant in guiding me!  Thank you so much for suggesting that this isn't a major job.  In my mind it was.  By telling me that this isn't a major job and that most professional trades won't touch it, you saved me time from going through checkatrade etc websites only to be told the same.

You've all given me great info about what needs to be done so that will help me understand when I get someone, what they need to do v what they say and want to charge.

I have a tree surgeon doing other work soon including taking down a garden brick wall and rebuild after stump removal and from what you've said here, I'm thinking that maybe, his team might be the people who can help me.

I'm grateful to you all for replying but can I just say I'll be taking up all the info provided by JohnJ76,TELLIT01,Phantom151,Simonib77,housebuyer143,daveyjp I'll take forward and also ThisIsWeird.  
ThisIsWeird, you sound like you know your plants (I'll need to google what is a succulent) so I'll post in a few mins the picture I've just taken of the offending "weed" which may well be an innocent plant that under normal circumstances if in the garden, I'd just let grow.  

And the post about the flame thrower and nuking it - made me laugh so much.  And sorry, I've not got your name (my bad) but you it's interesting you suggested that and it probably was a potential solution but you've raised an interesting issue.  I don't have "kit" as I'm not a DIY-er but I've discovered that in my area we have a charity repair shop/cafe who rents out all this type of kit by the day and fix all sorts of stuff.  I was recently gifted a bosch hedge trimmer and I don't have hedges so I donated it to them and it's been used by many since on a daily basis for just a couple of pounds.  You can book the kit online.  These types of charity repair shops are amazing.  I borrowed a carpet cleaner for just £3 for the day and my very old carpets have come up like new.  Sadly, there is no "flame thrower" available

Thank you again to you all. All the best.  

noideapleasehelp

This is the offending "weed"

grumbler

TELLIT01 said:

Getting hold of glyphosate based weedkiller can be difficult now.  Most supplies to the public no longer use glyphosate.

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=APwXEdeNNEk40grJvzdOBdVWiWYJE1_5-g:1686858046264&q=glyphosate&tbm=shop&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwil-Ij1g8b_AhVUlFwKHfgABOYQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1183&bih=715&dpr=0.8

And Rosate 360 mentioned above IS glyphosate

DougMLancs

noideapleasehelp said:

This is the offending "weed"

It looks like a little Campanula- you see them popping up in walls and rockeries. It sets seed rampantly so it probably blew in from further up/down the road. Nice plants when they aren’t invading your doorstep!

ThisIsWeird

noideapleasehelp said:

I have a tree surgeon doing other work soon including taking down a garden brick wall and rebuild after stump removal and from what you've said here, I'm thinking that maybe, his team might be the people who can help me.

Sounds like a plan

If they are rebuilding a wall for you, then they'll easily do this wee job - and probably not even charge any more for it (as long as you tell them about it from the off, and not be one of these folk who say - towards the end of the big job - "Oh, while you're here, could you just do this...")

But, I would fully kill off these pretty, but unwanted, plants first. You want them deed to the roots before the guys try and scrape them out. The Rosate 360 mentioned above is likely to be good, but I know little about them.

Grenage

I wouldn't worry too much. If those gaps are repointed then it's not coming back.

Glyphosate if not.

twopenny

I have this in the block paving and gravel round ny house.
It is indeed Campanula, a pretty blue plant that self seeds. They sell it in garden centre.
But it's darn hard to get it out once it's found it's home. I usea wire brush on mine to cause it damage then the resolva.
But some I keep outside for the bees.

It will have wriggled it's roots in because the mortar between the bricks has perished. G
Kill the plant before mortaring again and you should be fine.