How To Remove Vines From Vinyl Siding

I tried scraping them off and used a wire brush to remove them but didn t put a dent in the problem.

How to remove vines from vinyl siding. Start from one end of the wall and cut as you would hedges. 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 keep vines from damaging siding or shingles. 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. A power washer took off some from the steel siding and didn t hurt the siding but i used a knife to remove it. You can use trellises lattice metal grids or mesh strong wires or even string. For wood siding use a paint scraper to remove the ivy shoots from the surface.

Cut completely through the vines the entire length of the siding. 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. What you use should be based upon what vine you are growing. Sorry to say i found no easy way.

Ivy suckers are tough and anchor themselves even deeper into wood siding which is naturally more porous than vinyl or aluminum siding. I ve had ivy growing on stucco and steel siding. They also are wrapping themselves around the vinyl siding. Removing the suckers is painstaking and often frustrating work but it is possible with the right techniques.

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. Cut through the vines with the pruning shears. How to plant english ivy as a ground cover.

What s the best way to remove them. Never use a pressure washing system to remove ivy suckers on vinyl siding. Examine what the vines are growing on before you start. We had boston ivy growing on white vinyl siding and metal trim of garage the little black sucker marks were impossible to remove.

This is not a difficult task but it is time consuming. 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. Unfortunately these vines are not harmless on a house with stucco or wood vinyl or fiber cement siding. An ivy covered wall john from mississauga ontario writes.

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. This heavy duty process can permanently damage the siding.