Removing Ivy From Vinyl Siding

If you think pulling the vines off your structure will do more harm than good first kill them by cutting them to 4 to 6 inches above the ground.

Removing ivy from vinyl siding.

We recently bought a house that was half covered in ivy. Unfortunately these vines are not harmless on a house with stucco or wood vinyl or fiber cement siding. Sorry to say i found no easy way. How to kill english ivy with dawn liquid.

I tried scraping them off and used a wire brush to remove them but didn t put a dent in the problem. We cut the roots and let the ivy die but we noticed all these little suction cups that held the ivy to the brick and wood siding. Let the ivy attached to the vinyl siding dry out completely. What s the best way to remove them.

Decided to try magic eraser and while it takes elbow grease it completely removed the sucker marks. How to remove ivy marks. An ivy covered wall john from mississauga ontario writes. I ve had ivy growing on stucco and steel siding.

For wood siding use a paint scraper to remove the ivy shoots from the surface. Use a pair of pruning loppers or a pruning saw to cut through the larger vines. This heavy duty process can permanently damage the siding. Removing the suckers is painstaking and often frustrating work but it is possible with the right techniques.

A power washer took off some from the steel siding and didn t hurt the siding but i used a knife to remove it. English ivy and boston ivy that favorite vegetative covering on ivy league schools are evergreen plants. We didn t like it and we were told to cut the roots and let the ivy die and then just tear it down from the walls. Follow each vine of the ivy down to the roots and cut it off with a pair of pruning shears.

They can creep between masonry and stone joints under vinyl siding and into the mortar between bricks. Never use a pressure washing system to remove ivy suckers on vinyl siding. We had boston ivy growing on white vinyl siding and metal trim of garage the little black sucker marks were impossible to remove. Extra care and a lot of elbow grease are needed to remove ivy from vinyl siding on a house.

While lush green ivy growing up a wall or trailing across a fence can lend classic ambiance to your yard removing the ivy when you need a change isn t always an easy task.