How To Remove Vines From Vinyl Siding

We had boston ivy growing on white vinyl siding and metal trim of garage the little black sucker marks were impossible to remove.

How to remove vines from vinyl siding.

How to keep vines from damaging siding or shingles. They can creep between masonry and stone joints under vinyl siding and into the mortar between bricks. How to plant english ivy as a ground cover. They also are wrapping themselves around the vinyl siding.

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. 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. 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. What you use should be based upon what vine you are growing.

Cut through the vines with the pruning shears. They pull off the vinyl with ease but leave this very sticky stuff everywhere. We recently bought a house that was half covered in ivy. This is not a difficult task but it is time consuming.

Examine what the vines are growing on before you start. Start from one end of the wall and cut as you would hedges. 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.

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. 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. I ve had ivy growing on stucco and steel 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. To remove vines from siding you must completely remove the vine. This heavy duty process can permanently damage the siding.

Cut completely through the vines the entire length of the siding. Never use a pressure washing system to remove ivy suckers on vinyl 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. I tried scraping them off and used a wire brush to remove them but didn t put a dent in the problem.

What s the best way to remove them. You can use trellises lattice metal grids or mesh strong wires or even string.