Stopping ivy growing too high up wall

[Gareth J]

Just keep hacking at the sticky out bits and, if it's gotten too unruly, hack a lot off. If the wall is sound, with a pair of loppers you should be able to peel it all off without too much hassle. Is a nice addition to a hard garden wall. Wouldn't be too keen on it on my house though.

 

[dobbslc]

What's the best way to get all the little tendrils off the brickwork?

 

[gaz1]

a roofers torch

 

[nickk]

Whenever I want to kill it,I always cut it at the base,twice,2” between each cut,to stop it bridging.
@gaz1 ,too risky playing a torch near masonry,you get explosions due to moisture in the voids.

 

[Blicksheep]

I’m about to rebuild a large boundary wall. The customer had let the ivy consume the wall which weakened the wall extremely badly. The whole thing blew over a couple of months ago

 

[gaz1]

Whenever I want to kill it,I always cut it at the base,twice,2” between each cut,to stop it bridging.
@gaz1 ,too risky playing a torch near masonry,you get explosions due to moisture in the voids.

your burning the roots tendrils off so dosnt affect the brick or stone like building a a firepit and having a fire in it as that will explode with heat from the fire
same with concrete explodes if you build a fire on top of it

 

[not done it yet]

the only other alternative is to burn it out you need oil or diesel to soak down into the wall and set fire to it

Not true. There is another.

First off, I'm planning on removing any & all leaf, then treating any which appears thereafter, & seeing if that sorts it. It's royally peeing me off now. It's mocking me.

An appropriate herbicide is the easy/simple answer to the problem.

 

[brightspark]

sbk brushwood killer i wiped a load of hawthorn bushes brambles and elder berry trees out with it

 

[Barking Mat]

Ivy destroys houses and trees.

As @brightspark said cut it twice at the base.

 

[MattF]

An appropriate herbicide is the easy/simple answer to the problem.

Such as?

 

[Barking Mat]

Such as?

Petrol and a box of matches ?

 

[AVI_8]

I‘ve recently pulled it off one of my garden walls, it gets everywhere, I was surprised to see it had gone right through the double course brick wall in a couple of places and pushed off the pebbledash which I’ll have to repair.
When we bought our house it had been lying empty for 15 years, ivy was up one wall, went under lead flashing at one point and had taken residence in the loft.

 

[not done it yet]

Such as?

There are others, than the SBK brushwood killer mentioned by brightspark above.

 

[MattF]

I don’t think anyone was suggesting letting it grow inside a cavity wall

Any cracks, & it can grow through a wall, slowly forcing the brick/stone apart as it grows & thickens.