How To Remove Vines From Siding

An ivy covered wall john from mississauga ontario writes.

How to remove vines from siding. Table of contents you will needsteps to remove the residueadditional tips and advicesources advertisement richard asked i have a brick chimney with vines growing from the ground up to the top. Removing the suckers is painstaking and often frustrating work but it is possible with the right techniques. They also are wrapping themselves around the vinyl siding. Wear gloves when you re removing vines.

When the vine is completely dead it may be easier to remove causing less damage. Cut completely through the vines the entire length of the siding. How to remove ivy marks. I tried scraping them off and used a wire brush to remove them but didn t put a dent in the problem.

What s the best way to remove them. 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. Cut through the vines with the pruning shears. Before you do this make things easier for yourself by cutting the roots and waiting a few weeks for the vines to wilt.

I ve had ivy growing on stucco and steel siding. They pull off the vinyl with ease but leave this very sticky stuff everywhere. Decided to try magic eraser and while it takes elbow grease it completely removed the sucker marks. This is not a difficult task but it is time consuming.

A power washer took off some from the steel siding and didn t hurt the siding but i used a knife to remove it. 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. Ivy suckers are tough and anchor themselves even deeper into wood siding which is naturally more porous than vinyl or aluminum siding. Remove a chunk of the stem so there s a gap between the stem and stump of the vine.

Start from one end of the wall and cut as you would hedges. Sorry to say i found no easy way. There s no easier way to remove vines from siding than to pull them off. We recently bought a house that was half covered in ivy.

If you want to kill the roots you can do it with table salt using a technique that won t harm the soil. We had boston ivy growing on white vinyl siding and metal trim of garage the little black sucker marks were impossible to remove. Then paint some brush killer on the stump following label directions.