Removing Ivy From Vinyl Siding

How to remove ivy marks.

Removing ivy from vinyl siding.

English ivy and boston ivy that favorite vegetative covering on ivy league schools are evergreen plants. 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. How to kill english ivy with dawn liquid. Unfortunately these vines are not harmless on a house with stucco or wood vinyl or fiber cement siding.

We recently bought a house that was half covered in ivy. They can creep between masonry and stone joints under vinyl siding and into the mortar between bricks. An ivy covered wall john from mississauga ontario writes. Remove a chunk of the stem so there s a gap between the stem and stump of the vine.

We had boston ivy growing on white vinyl siding and metal trim of garage the little black sucker marks were impossible to remove. Decided to try magic eraser and while it takes elbow grease it completely removed the sucker marks. Use a pair of pruning loppers or a pruning saw to cut through the larger vines. Ivy suckers are tough and anchor themselves even deeper into wood siding which is naturally more porous than vinyl or aluminum siding.

I tried scraping them off and used a wire brush to remove them but didn t put a dent in the problem. Sorry to say i found no easy way. A power washer took off some from the steel siding and didn t hurt the siding but i used a knife to remove it. Follow each vine of the ivy down to the roots and cut it off with a pair of pruning shears.

Let the ivy attached to the vinyl siding dry out completely. Removing the suckers is painstaking and often frustrating work but it is possible with the right techniques. For wood siding use a paint scraper to remove the ivy shoots from the surface. Extra care and a lot of elbow grease are needed to remove ivy from vinyl siding on a house.

This heavy duty process can permanently damage the siding. Never use a pressure washing system to remove ivy suckers on vinyl siding. 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. What s the best way to remove them.

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.