On 28/01/2020 15:34, Rod Speed wrote:


"Tim Lamb" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 01:14:13 UTC, RayL12 wrote:
I was once instructed, by the home owner, to cut back an Ivy from the
roof. It grew on the whole gable of the property. It encroached onto
both sides of roof by ~2 meters along both gable verges(back and
front).
It was pure toil. Every few inches it needed cutting and as it got to
the verge the branches were 20mm thick. Nothing like cutting a branch
off a tree. This stuff wrapped around itself such that several cuts may
then lead to a relatively small, piece being removed. No easy task. At
the end of day, as I was preparing to leave, the ivy peeled back and
brought the best of the outer skin of the gable wall down. The
damage to
party fence and wheely bins was disastrous.

I've sometimes referred to ivy as structural ivy, sounds like that
description is all too real.

Hmm. The *attachment tendrils* come off with a sharp paint scraper on
wood. No satisfactory method yet found for brick:-(
(angle grinder + wire brush and pressure washer nbg) Time and weather
might work!

Likely to **** up the appearance of the surface of the bricks pretty badly.

We worry about what we are doing with the earth, Rod, and nature will
claim it all back when we do ourselves in, starting with our houses. The
buggers will suck the moisture below the foundations first.