help removing ivy

[flatyre]

a relative asked me to remove some ivy from a dashed wall so I said sure i'll be glad to help. Unfortunately the ivy was killed off about a year ago and is so brittle I can't get more than a few inches off at a time, and the little feet hairs are left behind. Spent about an hour today at it with a screwdriver to wedge the bigger bits off and a wire brush to scrub the rest, at this rte it'll take me a week. Any better techniques out there?

[dan494]

Can you get a bit of rope around some chunkier bits and pull more off at a time? Or too brittle now?

[inthewoods]

In the past I have winched it off from the base off of the whole gable end of a house but it was green.

 

I'm guessing a steam pressure washer would be too harsh on the dashing / render.

 

Good old elbow grease might be the only option.

 

I hate working for friends & family - they always give you the crap jobs!

[Gary Prentice]

Can you get a bit of rope around some chunkier bits and pull more off at a time? Or too brittle now?

 

I know someone who did that, attached the rope to the basket of a little mewp and bent it. Attached it to the landie and pulled the chimney stack down.

[stihlmadasever]

Ive seen the residule pressure washed off when the dead ivy was removed,it may however have a detrimental effect on the wall blowing some of the render or brickwork off

[Darrin Turnbull]

a relative asked me to remove some ivy from a dashed wall so I said sure i'll be glad to help. Unfortunately the ivy was killed off about a year ago and is so brittle I can't get more than a few inches off at a time, and the little feet hairs are left behind. Spent about an hour today at it with a screwdriver to wedge the bigger bits off and a wire brush to scrub the rest, at this rte it'll take me a week. Any better techniques out there?

 

 

Picture would be nice .

[TIMON]

Get a tapered head shovel underneath it and scrape away at it is best. Comes off a treat.

[inthewoods]

I know someone who did that, attached the rope to the basket of a little mewp and bent it. Attached it to the landie and pulled the chimney stack down.

 

Aye, that's why you Winch it... Nice & slow

[dan494]

I know someone who did that, attached the rope to the basket of a little mewp and bent it. Attached it to the landie and pulled the chimney stack down.

 

 

Explain that one away! I'd only pull it by hand for that reason

[Darrin Turnbull]

Maybe the small stuff would burn off.