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Posted by ccreagh (My Page) on Sun, Aug 12, 07 at 14:09
| Any ideas on how to remove ivy tracks from brickwork. I have cut down the ivy to the front of our house but the tracks will not shift with power washing. |
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RE: ivy tracks
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| Try sand blasting :) Are your tracks pieces of root and stem left behind? They should come off with a power wash. There may be some staining into the brick that won't power wash away but will slowly go away depending on how much rain hits that wall. Other than that you will have tiny pieces of brick which have come away to reveal the surface underneath and these will just fade with time. |
RE: ivy tracks
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| Hi, I have been informed that the common way to remove ivy roots is to use a blowtorch - but it must be done by a professional as more that one house has been burned down to the ground by people desperate to get rid of their climbers! |
RE: ivy tracks
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| the other way is to way for two or three years, then you've got a chance with more standard tools like a hard brush etc. |
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| What about with a cook's blowtorch? You're not going to burn the house down with something as small as that, although it would be a slow job. I'm meaning to give this a try on a small space where my own ivy has been removed from the house wall. I just have little fairly unobtrusive tracks. I might not get around to trying it for ages, mind. |
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| Remember a blowtorch (any sort!) will leave other marks, from charred moss and algae - sort of 'clean' tracks on an otherwise semi-dirty wall. Could be even more unsightly than the ivy fragments being removed. Resin |
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