ajit pai If you cut the roots and wait till it dies, much more will come off and much easier. Also, once the roots are dried, if you burn them off with a hot (blue) flame, very little soot will be left on the wall. Also, I assure you, a pressure washer WILL get soot off of brick (assuming your not using a shitty electric power washer).
Evolution Glitch propane leaves a build up as well and from exp i can tell you its not gonna come off easy you would have a better time sand blasting if anything
I'm dealing with the exact situation with leftover ivy strands on my brick, so this looks worth trying. Thank you for the good video. Very helpful. And the funny comments were a bonus.
David Ball txs and let me know. It worked very well for me. But note that it has to be the ivy with the roots , flat things. Not the one with the round knobs. That works as well but the little round things are bit harder. The big advantage with fire is that it does not destroy the joints on old walls versus high pressure water. Good luck
If anyone also wants an easy solution for getting the initial ivy off the walls without tearing up your finger tips, I use a straight, wide drywall trowel. Works really well, and it actually gets sharper the more you use it, so that's a plus for future use.
Something that works well for me is to use a garden rake to get the big stuff off the wall. It is easy to hook the tines under the stems and it is much easier to hold onto the handle of a rake. Saves the fingers. You still have to fool with the little pieces, though. Good idea with the burner. I would try a brush on a 4" angle grinder to make things easier.
This guy reminds me of my grandfather this is like the sort of job he would have had me doing as a young teen the old boy knew how to work you that's for sure.
John Palermo in my case something like 1.5. Years. Of course removing the ivy can be done immediately. But the removal of roots on the wall is easy after a year as they are dry. All depending the klimate
I tried this method with the vines growing on my log cabin. Depending on one's perspective, it either a) didn't work well, or b) worked extremely well.
I feel for you sir. I have this on my home. It was supposed to be on the chimney only but it spread with no care to the walls which are simply fiber siding. Years ago I clipped it all by hand at ground lvl then when it died I pulled it off. But it did leave all that root stubble everywhere. I could not burn it so it stayed. The painter when he painted the house had to simply paint over it. Now its making a come back. This summer will be another round of cut and pull.
Some people call it a Tiger torch, just fyi. I also like to mention people should choose a low-wind day, wet the ground underneath where they are working, and keep a garden hose around. Grass fires can spread 'like wildfire' lol Good vid!
The good thing about Ivy is, that it helps to cool down the walls in summer time. When the leaves heat up it creates kind of a chimney-effect/airflow underneath the green surface and the evaporation of water chills it down even more. Also it provides a lot of nesting space for a variety of birds an when it flowers in the end of summer, it gives food for a lot of insects, like bees, wasps, etc which are very helpful in your garden (pollination and pest-predation) and some birds eat and need the berries in winter time. So think carefully, before removing it :) Greetings.
One way to keep plants close to walls on spots where they are desired is to make a wooden frame about 25 cm from the wall so there is a good airgap between the leaves and the wall, and the soil about 60 cm (or more) from the ground, and hange the wooden frame in a way that make it possible to fold it down if the wall needs to be inspected or mainteanced.
English Ivy is a nightmare, done battle with it many times. On a wall it actually easier to deal with. Just cut the roots near ground level (with a pair of decent loppers) and wait a week (a week is about the optimal amount of time) or more. Will pull off easier the longer you wait and will create a lot less waste if you wait long enough for all the leaves to fall off but if you wait too long the vine ends break off and tend to remain behind (waiting around a week vines will pull off easily & rather cleanly). Using a lighter lifting motion (as opposed to tugging straight downward) helps remove vines cleanly from vertical surfaces much better. When spread as ground cover a lot tougher to deal with. Season and soil moisture level are important considerations. Best done in early spring or fall when the soil is softer and has higher moisture levels. In a dry summer the roots will lock into the soil and will break much easier leaving lots of little rootlet plants that will pop up again. During the summer the roots also become harder & stiffer making at least twice as difficult to remove. It is also important to keep an eye out in the following months to pull up any rootlets that almost always pop up. One plant you give an inch will take a mile..
I've left mine on the house use to be damp not since the Ivy growth I keep it from entering the roof by cutting back and using a paint scraper to remove
wow, never knew wall creepers sucks. always thought they were nice for vertical landscaping. the brick wall looks better imho. tq for the enlightenment.
I use MTHEL laser mounted to a warship. The 50megawatt chemical laser can bleach the whole wall in 15 seconds. Then I use machine guns to remove any debris. This method uses the least elbow grease.
mason buckwalter txs. , Ivy is indeed nice but destroys the wall over time. And you need to trim it twice a year, keep it away from window frames doors etc. I don't recommend it I had it on the walls of the farm for years. No more
The Rickest Rick that works as well. But does or can damage the bricks / joints. It all depends of the background. In my case it was not an option and dry heath was the best approach
Phillip Morrison well yes maybe but it destroys the surface of soft bricks or old walls. And in my case it did mot work as all the smal roots were still there
Nope. I have a north facing wall with the suckers from Parthenocissus tricuspidata (Boston ivy) and high pressure water damages the plaster but does nothing to the suckers. Burning is a simple and easy option if you take the necessary precautions.
I removed a lot of Ivy from a garden shed for a customer. The Ivy had not been touched in 40yrs and the trunk just above the roots was 150mm in diameter, the depth of the Ivy on the shed roof was almost 600mm. It took me two days to clear it off the small brick shed and then I had re-roof it. Ivy is terrible stuff.
At my wife's request, I planted Creeping Charlie on our first home which was brick. A couple of years and one Hell of a lot of Creeping Charlie later we needed the chimney, one of the few places not inundated with Creeping Charlie by the by, to be re-pointed. The bricklayer told me to lose the vines as they removed something or other from either the brick or the mortar, I can't recall. That was a horrible thankless task that took for bloody ever. Never again. Mike
Ivy bring beauty - It shows how Mother Earth feels by showing her colors in every transition. It brings life to a dead brick wall. And it feed hungry birds on cold winter times with its fruits
I think this makes sense, I don't like the large flame thrower, perhaps a hand burner will be safer. O)k, Just to re cap: jerking-sizzling and then rubbing as need it.
LOL, I came here from the Weber series. Having painted about 1000 houses in the last 40 years I would, on my own house, take a flat shovel and cut the roots and the first foot or two of the vines. LET THEM DIE. When they are brown and crispy it is easier to get the whole , or at least significantly longer pieces off pulling them. The vines dont know the difference between bricks, rocks or wood they often extend into a second or even third material like wood and asphalt shingles. They will go in windows, behind the siding and shutters prying them loose You cant use a torch, English Ivy is not the only vine that will eat a whole house given time either. You might note that in the states we find POISON IVY mixed in with it, also Virginia Creeper, SOME people have bad reactions to some or all of them. If you pressure wash it off you better make sure you know what is what or you could be head to toe in oozing blisters from the atomized plant material. Likewise w a torch if you breath that smoke You can expect a trip to the ER with both eye and lung problems. Ask me how I know. Theres also Kudzu, it comes off best dead too. the tiny little roots have to be scraped or sanded off of painted wood. I looks really good on old brick buildings but its very damaging to really anything it grows on it kills the trees, everything. It harbors and promotes infestations of insects and even vertebrates. Its just for ground cover and gets out of hand with a little neglect. How many of those wire brushes did you go through, and how much time on that lift to clean that 1 wall ?
I cleaned some brick walls of live ivy by simply pulling it off, killing the roots with Roundup, then taking a big wire brush to the wall. No waiting 2 years, no flame or heating needed, just elbow grease.
Just pull off most of it, take a power drill with a steel brush attached and go over it. No waiting, no black gunk on your walls and your walls come out clean as well. Very fast, very effective.
Wouldn't it be better to use a pressure washer on brighter coloured walls or red brick walls? I'm quite certain it would stain my wall and I would have to use a pressure washer anyway to get the black resedue off of it.
SH Soft wash process would be the best way to get rid of this. Pull the bulk of the ivy off the wall the way you have apply SH with a sprayer. it will change color right before your eyes. now its dead. and will dry out and fall right off the wall when it rains.
I just painted the ivy to look like brick again....its amazing
Cut roots. Wait for ivy to die. Pull ivy. Wait a few weeks. Burn it off. (Use a hotter flame). Then use pressure washer to clean.
Evolution Glitch you cant wash off carbon build up tho good luck
ajit pai
If you cut the roots and wait till it dies, much more will come off and much easier. Also, once the roots are dried, if you burn them off with a hot (blue) flame, very little soot will be left on the wall. Also, I assure you, a pressure washer WILL get soot off of brick (assuming your not using a shitty electric power washer).
Evolution Glitch propane leaves a build up as well and from exp i can tell you its not gonna come off easy you would have a better time sand blasting if anything
Evolution Glitch you know blue is just a gas flame right? the color of flame doesnt mean more hot
Evolution Glitch electric pressure washers can be far better then the stupendous expensive petrol ones.
i did this but i forgot that my walls are made from wood, now i live on the streets
stpftw1 lol
Made my Day ty ^^
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Here before this video becomes a meme due to UA-cam's shitty recommended system.
This will become a great meme!
Haha
Haha yes
Tide pods first
MarioZ yup
*complains about being tired all the time *
Me at 3 am:
Kimberly ?????
D3Sshooter what?
Kimberly i am puzzeld about your comment. ???? About been tired.
D3Sshooter It's meant to be a joke.
D3Sshooter She means she’s tired all the time. And at the same time watching this kind of videos at 3am. She wrote it a bit complicated 😉
"Jerk it all off" youtube: *D E M O N I T I Z E D ! ! !*
That looks like a hell if a lot of work, think I'll just knock the wall down and rebuild it,
actually your almost right
Would that take less than a few hours?
Eltic sure would take less than couple years lmao
Same here
krisja or start with the fire and play the song playing with fire by sub zero project while you watch everything burn
In a tumultuous world, the simplicity of this video makes me happy. Thanks so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
i have no idea why this was recomended to me but im so thankful
My vinyl siding looks like crap now!
Gewgulkan Suhckitt 😀
diver dave, definitely! you're on the right track
I'm dealing with the exact situation with leftover ivy strands on my brick, so this looks worth trying. Thank you for the good video. Very helpful. And the funny comments were a bonus.
Thanks for the video. I am going to give this a go with my ivy covered wall.
David Ball txs and let me know. It worked very well for me. But note that it has to be the ivy with the roots , flat things. Not the one with the round knobs. That works as well but the little round things are bit harder. The big advantage with fire is that it does not destroy the joints on old walls versus high pressure water. Good luck
If anyone also wants an easy solution for getting the initial ivy off the walls without tearing up your finger tips, I use a straight, wide drywall trowel. Works really well, and it actually gets sharper the more you use it, so that's a plus for future use.
Yeeaahh.... no offense to the blowtorch guy, but I like the drywall idea a WHOLE lot better than the shooting fire at my home technique lol😂😂
Something that works well for me is to use a garden rake to get the big stuff off the wall. It is easy to hook the tines under the stems and it is much easier to hold onto the handle of a rake. Saves the fingers. You still have to fool with the little pieces, though. Good idea with the burner. I would try a brush on a 4" angle grinder to make things easier.
1:21 got it!
England is my city I tried it and I’ve still got all the ivy that was there before still there but it felt good 😂😂
Then get this....
*change your name and profile picture*
This guy reminds me of my grandfather this is like the sort of job he would have had me doing as a young teen the old boy knew how to work you that's for sure.
*poison ivy growing on a wall*
HANS GET ZE FLAMMENWERFER
Farnømat Ah the furer will be pleased he has sent you some kings tigers to use for getting through said wall
Idk why or how I ended on this part of UA-cam but I appreciate this kind sir, even though I live in an apartment in the middle of the city..
4:00 "It's the best way, and the fastest way"...*waits 1 whole year for pieces to dry up*...
So all in this method is a 2-year/3 part project, no thanks....
John Palermo in my case something like 1.5. Years. Of course removing the ivy can be done immediately. But the removal of roots on the wall is easy after a year as they are dry. All depending the klimate
Which is why it's wise to keep ivy off of walls in the first place.
Why the fuck am i watching ivy removal video at 3 at night
I am watching it 2:17am. At least this time are not blackhead removals or colon surgery videos....
It's better than cabal?
04:39 am wtf am i doing
FullOilBarrel lol
I gotta say he is committed to removing the ivy. I have to respect that.
I tried this method with the vines growing on my log cabin. Depending on one's perspective, it either a) didn't work well, or b) worked extremely well.
Problem solved
@@sholland42 yes, either way
I feel for you sir. I have this on my home. It was supposed to be on the chimney only but it spread with no care to the walls which are simply fiber siding. Years ago I clipped it all by hand at ground lvl then when it died I pulled it off. But it did leave all that root stubble everywhere. I could not burn it so it stayed. The painter when he painted the house had to simply paint over it. Now its making a come back. This summer will be another round of cut and pull.
I live in a apartment... never seen ivy in my life... no bunglows or farm in 50 mile radius from my home.. but I watched the entire video... wth
Sid Usa what's it like growing up in Greenland?
😂😂
Some people call it a Tiger torch, just fyi. I also like to mention people should choose a low-wind day, wet the ground underneath where they are working, and keep a garden hose around. Grass fires can spread 'like wildfire' lol Good vid!
This man was a Good Person.
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We Will always keep him in our memories
RAGNES7• haha love your comment
D3Sshooter
wait what? u are alive?
U sir are amazing.
U earned my Subscription[•-•]7
RIP D3shooter. May your spirit rebuild the house I burnt down because of this vid.
Now I kind of want to know why you thought he was dead?? xD
Ivy is so beautiful though! My old house was covered in it, I miss that quite a bit now that I live in a tiny house in the middle of a city.
0:28 "i planted it all over the farm"
This is a surprisingly well made video for just randomly appearing in my recommended.
Thank you for posting this 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Theknotman1964 only person on this whole video that actually used it for educational purposes
I don't know how I got here, but this is really well done. Very interesting! Thanks.
Also, what about power washing the roots instead?
The good thing about Ivy is, that it helps to cool down the walls in summer time. When the leaves heat up it creates kind of a chimney-effect/airflow underneath the green surface and the evaporation of water chills it down even more.
Also it provides a lot of nesting space for a variety of birds an when it flowers in the end of summer, it gives food for a lot of insects, like bees, wasps, etc which are very helpful in your garden (pollination and pest-predation) and some birds eat and need the berries in winter time.
So think carefully, before removing it :)
Greetings.
Aye but the ivy roots will find a way into any little hole in brickwork. Could completely ruin a wall.
Yes, in addition to the birds, snakes thrive in it and they love the bird eggs. Be extra careful removing in Texas (diamondbacks)
UA-cam's recommendation system is so broken that I now know how to remove Ivy from walls. Seems like a win to me
Ok this video is going to be the meme of 2018. 0:37, 0:57
Ummm... you need to add 1:20 to the list. That's the one that got me.
Looks scary to me, I'd probably burn the house down! What a pleasant, genuine guy tho, good advice well presented!
Steps unclear, burned down my house.
After a spaceX clip, and watching this one for 1 minute I got interested how to remove Ivy properly from a wall. :D
"Once you get him off, then you can start to clean off the wall"
One way to keep plants close to walls on spots where they are desired is to make a wooden frame about 25 cm from the wall so there is a good airgap between the leaves and the wall, and the soil about 60 cm (or more) from the ground, and hange the wooden frame in a way that make it possible to fold it down if the wall needs to be inspected or mainteanced.
Thank you for the comments
why is this on my recommended and why did I watch it
English Ivy is a nightmare, done battle with it many times. On a wall it actually easier to deal with. Just cut the roots near ground level (with a pair of decent loppers) and wait a week (a week is about the optimal amount of time) or more. Will pull off easier the longer you wait and will create a lot less waste if you wait long enough for all the leaves to fall off but if you wait too long the vine ends break off and tend to remain behind (waiting around a week vines will pull off easily & rather cleanly). Using a lighter lifting motion (as opposed to tugging straight downward) helps remove vines cleanly from vertical surfaces much better. When spread as ground cover a lot tougher to deal with. Season and soil moisture level are important considerations. Best done in early spring or fall when the soil is softer and has higher moisture levels. In a dry summer the roots will lock into the soil and will break much easier leaving lots of little rootlet plants that will pop up again. During the summer the roots also become harder & stiffer making at least twice as difficult to remove. It is also important to keep an eye out in the following months to pull up any rootlets that almost always pop up. One plant you give an inch will take a mile..
Mate, remember put on a mask. The dust is not good for your health.
Txs, will do..... That stuff is indeed nasty....
Neither is breathing in all that cow shit/piss smells.
I've installed/repaired OHD in many a dairy, I stopped consuming dairy products because of it.
Thank you. This the best advice I have been given.
You're very welcome
Problem: Ivy
Solution: Napalm
I've left mine on the house use to be damp not since the Ivy growth I keep it from entering the roof by cutting back and using a paint scraper to remove
I love how he's so old that he reckons "a year or two" is a manageable amount of time!
Excellent & very useful !! Thanks for sharing !!
Here before a potential meme
What about after its dried, putting a flammable liquid on the roots before you burn, would it help?
That might work , but the blow torch for removing weeds works great. with liquids you will have no control and will drip down
"this is the fastest way" Just said it would take a year to do. "facepalm"
Some people measure time in man hours and not calendar days.
Thanks Steven. i appreciate the kind gesture but have to refuse due to health issues
“Easiest way and FASTEST WAY” Yup you just gotta wait a year for it to dry up
wow, never knew wall creepers sucks. always thought they were nice for vertical landscaping. the brick wall looks better imho. tq for the enlightenment.
I bet that place was built in the early 2000s, maybe late 90s
sorich the farm dates from 1616. The house with ivy from 1912
hehe, I knew it was old, great video! We don't have those issues over here in Arizona! ;)
Sup except if someone else planted them before him, and its not 150 years old its 106, drastic change....
I don't even have any Ivey around my house but I still watched this video
100% thought my doorbell rang at 3:05...
I use MTHEL laser mounted to a warship. The 50megawatt chemical laser can bleach the whole wall in 15 seconds. Then I use machine guns to remove any debris. This method uses the least elbow grease.
This is way too much damn work the walk looked better with the ivy tbh
mason buckwalter txs. , Ivy is indeed nice but destroys the wall over time. And you need to trim it twice a year, keep it away from window frames doors etc. I don't recommend it I had it on the walls of the farm for years. No more
mason buckwalter agreed
mason buckwalter no it doesn't look better im a landscaper
brandon william being a landscaper doesn't change peoples opinion BRANDON
"I'm a labourer for a landscaping company that means i know what looks good more than you do"
Thank you... good idea... will give it a try on my foundation walls
Lighter, lighter fluid need I say more???
God :-O plus you get a brand new foundation!
Use electric brush. One that spins around. And if it is dry you do not need any fire to get the work done.
thanks for the comments
Instructions unclear, I accidentally killed the character in my profile picture.
Ivy Goliath , that is just to bad
Thank you for your tips, kind old man.
Not poison ivy. Regular ivy.
George Lockwood thanks
Great Vid, just tried this on my thatched log cabin; it worked a treat : )
So just wait 2 years easy peasy lol
So if I just leave the roots to shrivel up in the sun for several weeks will it be possible easy to scrape off without a flame thrower?
They are tuff stuff
Put gasoline in a water gun and only use one match... Way easier
Looks good,I would spray it with methylated sprites first ,(safety first )
To increase the burn time.
Thanks
Just pressure wash it
The Rickest Rick that works as well. But does or can damage the bricks / joints. It all depends of the background. In my case it was not an option and dry heath was the best approach
D3Sshooter oh OK
well this was surprisingly fun to watch.
Jerk on it it to get it off? I did that and nuted my fire on the wall nothing happend....Ohhh edit I had to watch not listen to video
I love the smell of flame burning ivy in the mornings.
_In this video, a man uses a fucking flamethrower to fucking own some gay plants._
Excellent video thank you sir
You are welcome
i don't know what hes talking about a pressure washer is more than strong enough even when its green
Phillip Morrison well yes maybe but it destroys the surface of soft bricks or old walls. And in my case it did mot work as all the smal roots were still there
Fair enough
Nope. I have a north facing wall with the suckers from Parthenocissus tricuspidata (Boston ivy) and high pressure water damages the plaster but does nothing to the suckers. Burning is a simple and easy option if you take the necessary precautions.
I removed a lot of Ivy from a garden shed for a customer. The Ivy had not been touched in 40yrs and the trunk just above the roots was 150mm in diameter, the depth of the Ivy on the shed roof was almost 600mm. It took me two days to clear it off the small brick shed and then I had re-roof it. Ivy is terrible stuff.
TXS for the comments
Jerk if all off wtf that’s not very good phrasing there because that reminds me of well ya know lol
Sancho Jr
Salty much? How about you grow a sense of humour and put on your big boy pants.
At my wife's request, I planted Creeping Charlie on our first home which was brick. A couple of years and one Hell of a lot of Creeping Charlie later we needed the chimney, one of the few places not inundated with Creeping Charlie by the by, to be re-pointed. The bricklayer told me to lose the vines as they removed something or other from either the brick or the mortar, I can't recall. That was a horrible thankless task that took for bloody ever. Never again.
Mike
Dang, that's a tough lesson, bro.
Ivy bring beauty - It shows how Mother Earth feels by showing her colors in every transition. It brings life to a dead brick wall. And it feed hungry birds on cold winter times with its fruits
2:00 "The best way is to burn it off with a burner."
I was hoping a flamethrower of some kind would be involved, and you did not disappoint.
Yes, so clear and instructive.
i think a road flare would work good for burning if you are an a ladder
I think this makes sense, I don't like the large flame thrower, perhaps a hand burner will be safer. O)k, Just to re
cap: jerking-sizzling and then rubbing as need it.
LOL, I came here from the Weber series. Having painted about 1000 houses in the last 40 years I would, on my own house, take a flat shovel and cut the roots and the first foot or two of the vines. LET THEM DIE. When they are brown and crispy it is easier to get the whole , or at least significantly longer pieces off pulling them. The vines dont know the difference between bricks, rocks or wood they often extend into a second or even third material like wood and asphalt shingles. They will go in windows, behind the siding and shutters prying them loose You cant use a torch, English Ivy is not the only vine that will eat a whole house given time either. You might note that in the states we find POISON IVY mixed in with it, also Virginia Creeper, SOME people have bad reactions to some or all of them. If you pressure wash it off you better make sure you know what is what or you could be head to toe in oozing blisters from the atomized plant material. Likewise w a torch if you breath that smoke You can expect a trip to the ER with both eye and lung problems. Ask me how I know. Theres also Kudzu, it comes off best dead too. the tiny little roots have to be scraped or sanded off of painted wood. I looks really good on old brick buildings but its very damaging to really anything it grows on it kills the trees, everything. It harbors and promotes infestations of insects and even vertebrates. Its just for ground cover and gets out of hand with a little neglect. How many of those wire brushes did you go through, and how much time on that lift to clean that 1 wall ?
I cleaned some brick walls of live ivy by simply pulling it off, killing the roots with Roundup, then taking a big wire brush to the wall. No waiting 2 years, no flame or heating needed, just elbow grease.
TXS for your comments
Great video many thanks I hope you do more sharing your knowledge thanks pops
Just pull off most of it, take a power drill with a steel brush attached and go over it. No waiting, no black gunk on your walls and your walls come out clean as well. Very fast, very effective.
You can also chop the Ivy with 68 Woodcutting
How very thoughtful, thank you.
still good on a white wall?
He rubbed a bit on it and it went rather smoothly, i'm convinced.
I'm going to give this a try. Thank you for posting.
Have fun!
yeh amazing job, where do i get the flamethrower from?
Good video. Have worked with Ivies for years - I like the fire idea. Non invasive climbers next time !
Wouldn't it be better to use a pressure washer on brighter coloured walls or red brick walls? I'm quite certain it would stain my wall and I would have to use a pressure washer anyway to get the black resedue off of it.
How good does that torch work when there is wood siding and old vines
SH Soft wash process would be the best way to get rid of this. Pull the bulk of the ivy off the wall the way you have apply SH with a sprayer. it will change color right before your eyes. now its dead. and will dry out and fall right off the wall when it rains.
I haven't even read the comments yet but the second he said "Jerk it all off" I knew there was gonna be people commenting on that xD