Best Way To Get Ivy Off Of Aluminum Siding

1 gently pull ivy from house.

Best way to get ivy off of aluminum siding.

A power washer took off some from the steel siding and didn t hurt the siding but i used a knife to remove it. What s the best way to remove them. Hope this helps someone. Before you do this make things easier for yourself by cutting the roots and waiting a few weeks for the vines to wilt.

3 scrape siding to remove dead branches and dried leaves. 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. 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. First i wet it with a sponge using a warm water and dish soap solution.

I just removed ivy from painted aluminum siding. Ivy suckers are tough and anchor themselves even deeper into wood siding which is naturally more porous than vinyl or aluminum siding. An ivy covered wall john from mississauga ontario writes. Cut off the ivy sucker shoots at the base of the root structure where the suckers originate.

Then i scraped it off with a plastic putty knife until there was very little material left. If you want to kill the roots you can do it with table salt using a technique that won t harm the soil. Here are some tips on how to remove ivy without damaging your walls. 4 sand the siding with orbital sander to remove stubborn ivy stains and residue.

Dig out the root ball with your garden spade to remove the plant entirely from the ground. Finally i used a magic eraser to remove the stains from the siding. Ivy and walls seem to go hand in hand in landscape design but it takes a good bit of maintenance to keep it pruned and tidy. Sorry to say i found no easy way.

5 cut the ivy stems close to ground with loppers. We recently bought a house that was half covered in ivy. You can t even tell i had ivy on it. And if you ve ever pulled ivy off a wall you know that the tiny roots adhere to the brick or siding like glue leaving behind a maze of fuzzy tendrils that can leave your wall looking like a mess.

6 collect ivy and stuff into plastic trash bags. Remember if you don t kill the roots the ivy suckers will sprout back up and around the siding. Removing the suckers is painstaking and often frustrating work but it is possible with the right techniques.