They pull off the vinyl with ease but leave this very sticky stuff everywhere.
How to remove vines from vinyl siding.
To remove vines from siding you must completely remove the vine.
What you use should be based upon what vine you are growing.
Examine what the vines are growing on before you start.
Decided to try magic eraser and while it takes elbow grease it completely removed the sucker marks.
We recently bought a house that was half covered in ivy.
Never use a pressure washing system to remove ivy suckers on vinyl siding.
I ve had ivy growing on stucco and steel siding.
You can use trellises lattice metal grids or mesh strong wires or even string.
A power washer took off some from the steel siding and didn t hurt the siding but i used a knife to remove it.
Removing the suckers is painstaking and often frustrating work but it is possible with the right techniques.
How to plant english ivy as a ground cover.
They can creep between masonry and stone joints under vinyl siding and into the mortar between bricks.
Sorry to say i found no easy way.
Unfortunately these vines are not harmless on a house with stucco or wood vinyl or fiber cement siding.
This heavy duty process can permanently damage the siding.
This is not a difficult task but it is time consuming.
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.
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.
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.
How to keep vines from damaging siding or shingles.
I tried scraping them off and used a wire brush to remove them but didn t put a dent in the problem.
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.
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.
Cut through the vines with the pruning shears.
We had boston ivy growing on white vinyl siding and metal trim of garage the little black sucker marks were impossible to remove.
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.
