Here vines hold moisture against the wall promoting siding deterioration and they can even work their way through gaps in the window trim and grow into the home.
How to remove vines from vinyl siding.
I ve had ivy growing on stucco and steel siding.
Sorry to say i found no easy way.
This heavy duty process can permanently damage the siding.
You can use trellises lattice metal grids or mesh strong wires or even string.
To remove vines from siding you must completely remove the vine.
They pull off the vinyl with ease but leave this very sticky stuff everywhere.
An ivy covered wall john from mississauga ontario writes.
A power washer took off some from the steel siding and didn t hurt the siding but i used a knife to remove it.
Decided to try magic eraser and while it takes elbow grease it completely removed the sucker marks.
Unfortunately these vines are not harmless on a house with stucco or wood vinyl or fiber cement siding.
The best way to grow vines up a home is to grow them not directly on the home itself but on a support set about 6 8 inches out from the home s siding.
Ivy suckers are tough and anchor themselves even deeper into wood siding which is naturally more porous than vinyl or aluminum siding.
What s the best way to remove them.
Removing the suckers is painstaking and often frustrating work but it is possible with the right techniques.
Cut completely through the vines the entire length of the siding.
How to plant english ivy as a ground cover.
This is not a difficult task but it is time consuming.
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.
Never use a pressure washing system to remove ivy suckers on vinyl siding.
How to keep vines from damaging siding or shingles.
Examine what the vines are growing on before you start.
Cut through the vines with the pruning shears.
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.
I tried scraping them off and used a wire brush to remove them but didn t put a dent in the problem.
They can creep between masonry and stone joints under vinyl siding and into the mortar between bricks.
For wood siding use a paint scraper to remove the ivy shoots from the surface.
What you use should be based upon what vine you are growing.
We had boston ivy growing on white vinyl siding and metal trim of garage the little black sucker marks were impossible to remove.
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.
