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Well, not actually the ivy, but washing off the ivy suckers on a stucco wall, and also on a board and batton painted wooden wall, after the ivy has been removed. The paint looks in pretty good shape even though it is about six years old, but it now looks like a hundred centipedes with muddy feet tromped all over it on the stucco wall. The stuckers have dried for an unknown length of time on the stucco wall, but the ivy is still alive on the board and batton wall.
I have two pressure washers – a lightweight electric one that supposedly gives 1400 psi (yeah, right) and a 6.5 hp Honda powered one that I haven’t used yet. Since I have to haul whatever I use 600 miles to the house, it would be nice if the little one would do the job.
Any success stories in restoring walls once covered with English ivy? Is pressure washing likely to be the quickest and easiest way to go? Any suggestions on whether to use detergents and what kind?
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Casey
If the suckers have dried more than a couple of weeks they can be a pain and leave a stain.
I've never had good luck with pressure washing them. Maybe I was using the wrong tip, but before I would try that I would use a carbide scraper and/or a razor blade on the wood siding and a stiff brush and maybe some laundry detergent to remove the suckers on the stucco.
You might want to use a stain killer primer over the area, especially where the suckers have been there a while, because the residue sometimes has a tendency to bleed thru the top coat.
Barry
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Well, not actually the ivy, but washing off the ivy suckers on a stucco wall, and also on a board and batton painted wooden wall, after the ivy has been removed. The paint looks in pretty good shape even though it is about six years old, but it now looks like a hundred centipedes with muddy feet tromped all over it on the stucco wall. The stuckers have dried for an unknown length of time on the stucco wall, but the ivy is still alive on the board and batton wall.
I have two pressure washers - a lightweight electric one that supposedly gives 1400 psi (yeah, right) and a 6.5 hp Honda powered one that I haven't used yet. Since I have to haul whatever I use 600 miles to the house, it would be nice if the little one would do the job.
Any success stories in restoring walls once covered with English ivy? Is pressure washing likely to be the quickest and easiest way to go? Any suggestions on whether to use detergents and what kind?