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Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook gives a tutorial on removing unwanted and overgrown ivy.
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Time: 3-4 hours
Cost: $45 for the herbicide
Skill Level: Easy
Tools:
Gloves [amzn.to/2moPS94]
Loppers [amzn.to/2kVqPdl]
Ladders [amzn.to/2kOamr8]
Steps:
1. The best season to remove ivy is in the late winter - early spring before the plant is in full bloom.
2. Whether the ivy is attached to a tree or a home, start removing the ivy by pulling it up gently with your hands. Be sure to use gloves in case you encounter poison ivy as well.
3. If the ivy has grown high on a home, you’ll need a sturdy ladder to climb up and remove it. Be sure to use one with stabilizer bars attached. These will help keep a strong footing at the bottom and at the peak of the ladder.
4. For any thicker roots and stems, use a pair of loppers to cut through the root. Continue until all of the thicker roots are trimmed back to the ground.
5. When the plant begins to flower in the following season, cover the leaves with an herbicide. This will bring poison all the way down to the roots and kill the ivy plant for good.
6. To remove any buds left on the siding of a home by the ivy, use a palm sander with 120 grit paper to grind down the buds.
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@TexasGTO 6 лет назад

When he scraped it with his nail, I nearly passed out.

@michaelmase5498 6 лет назад

omfg and he keeps doing it over and over and over

@lucaslarson430 5 лет назад

Had to skip by. Nearly threw my phone out the window

@adamcosta4610 5 лет назад

i chewed the inside of my bottom lip and shook LOL

@whit3man61 5 лет назад

goosebumps i was not ready for that

@natejenkins786 5 лет назад

I had to cover my ears.

@billwilmington8284 7 лет назад

Pushing on ya gutta. You shuuure you wanna do that Maaaak?

@yourunmarathons 7 лет назад

hhahahahahahahahaahahaaaaaaaa

@ryantfinchum 6 лет назад

LMAO

@Ss31994 6 лет назад

I’m crying HAHAHAHAHA MAAAAK

@kyndread71 5 лет назад

When he pronounced the Latin name of the vine, I played that over and over.... and pictured him being a professor in a hoity-toity college. LOL

@Axxetto 5 лет назад

Is thwat thwe bwoaston awccent

@dillonparadelas5752 5 лет назад

I’m gunna go out to the “cahhh” and see if I can use anything to get off these “sneekahs” -Roger 2017

@jeffstike3195 6 лет назад

"I got one other thing I want to try " Comes back with a flame thrower!

@humbledman5617 4 года назад

Comes back with a group of Mexicans 🇲🇽

@jackson6350 4 года назад

Jeffstike 31 lol

@BillyN31 4 года назад

Jeffstike 31 😂😂🤣

@daviddaywalker3844 4 года назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@daviddaywalker3844 4 года назад

@@humbledman5617 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@1tiredcitizen796 4 года назад

I worked on a house years ago that had ivy covering the exterior walls. They removed the ivy and found that the ivy had penetrated the stucco and after removing the stucco to replace it they found a large number of the wall studs to be rotten from the years of rain getting in. A paint job turned into a major remodel.

@derewreck 2 года назад

Legend says Mark is still removing the sneakers to this day

@hmac2476 5 лет назад

I've seen many of your projects I have learned and enjoyed them. I would like to ask that u also show the subject once the project is completed lands cape, lawn revitalized, hedges grown, ivey removed etc

@moondog573 4 года назад

I have watched a lot of these videos, and seen a lot of projects, I think this is the first time I ever heard them ask if they are sure they want to move forward.

@hesrey6734 4 года назад

Funny... correct

@verygoodboy2688 4 года назад

@Ms. Tal painting your entire house is free?

@verygoodboy2688 4 года назад

@Ms. Tal My god you're dumb. You have to paint the house after you take it all off. Of course demoing something is free. That's not the entire scope of the project. Please think before you speak

@verygoodboy2688 4 года назад

@Ms. Tal Apparently you have a 2 year old's 'I can't see it so it doesn't exist' mentality. They're showing one part of the project, and very clearly state that after it's all removed the house will need to be painted. 2:00, remember to listen. You can listen to what they're saying by using your ears. Just pointing that out since you obviously don't understand any other basic concepts.

@verygoodboy2688 4 года назад

@Ms. Tal Just stop. Use common sense. You yourself said they're removing paint. If you're removing the paint it needs to be replaced, it's common sense. Just realize you are wrong and stop embarrassing yourself

@kalijasin 5 лет назад

Sanding it before painting is good though. Will help the prime coat stick really good.

@Personlpp 7 лет назад

I'm afraid of heights. So climbing the ladder would be the hahhd pahht.

@joshuadupont7172 7 лет назад

Michael K Oh hell yeah lol

@valmcandrews3659 6 лет назад

Lol

@go86go 6 лет назад

I can't climb leddahs

@ryantfinchum 6 лет назад

He's going to his cahhr to get some tools..

@robertstallworth2060 5 лет назад

Ahhhhhahahahahaaaa! 🤣🤣🤣

@gnomesgardens4393 5 лет назад

Oh god why did Roger always meet people called Maaahk.

@mousearebec 7 лет назад

That "corner" ladder did NOT look that stable at all.

@Engineer9736 7 лет назад

The bottom was too far out from the house according to their own ladder safety video.

@DiscoFang 6 лет назад

Mickey Cook Neither did it have padded stand-off brackets like was pointed out for the straight ladders.

@Mike1614b 5 лет назад

@ganymedeIV4 says the guy with a limp

@bjornjoseph 4 года назад

Its spelled cornuh

@danielmann5427 4 года назад

@@Engineer9736 It's looks fine to me. I clean windows. I am up and down ladders just about daily. The best method is to stand on the foot of the ladder raise your arms parallel, the tips of your fingers should just touch the ladder. That's the angle you want.

@sminthian 4 года назад

I didn't realize TOH was still around. I spent 2012-2016 redoing a foreclosured 1912 house in Rhode Island. They could have done sooo many shows with that place.

@michaelm.3328 4 года назад

I just can't imagine why some homeowners want or even allow ivy to grow on their house like that. I guess some of them think it looks good but it can do tremendous damage to the siding or brick.

@Ariel1S 2 года назад

Only the tendril type will cause damage The glue type, like what's shown in this video, causes absolutely no damage.

@doofsdoofs 2 года назад

Free cold insulation in the summer, free heat insulation in the fall and spring

@MrKirby365 Год назад

I am now the proud owner of house that I cannot understand why the fck they wanted Ivy to be a part of it... That has been the thing I have spent the most work on since I got the house and it was level two hording. I have cleaned out over thirty seven fifty five gallon bags of trash plus I still need to get a dumpster To get rid of all the big trash and I still think the ivy is worse to deal with. I'm so thankful my home doesn't look quite as bad as that but it's pretty close

@defensegeneral9893 9 месяцев назад

It’s ornamental

@crazykev6491 4 года назад

Drink every time owner says “I’m up for it”. 😂

@zaxarispetixos8728 5 лет назад

Story time when my uncle was young he was going to the school and they had a teacher that was from the town and did not know about ivy my uncle was born in a village and one day she asked if any of the childern could bring some ivy to plant in a big wall in the school yard my uncle told her that he would bring some. Then he told this to my grandfather and he said is she crazy she will destroy the whole yard but he agreed to let his son have some they planted it and it turned into a monster the routes where huge like a tree it destroyed the wall that was made of rocks and 10-20 years they renovated the school and the had to bring a bulldozer to dig out the wall and get rid of the ivy

@seededsoul 5 лет назад

Zaxaris Petixos great story! 💯

@vladimirenev1847 6 лет назад

That mahk guy responds like a 2003 npc

@Sifer2 4 года назад

He could be a character in Shenmue. "Sounds Good"..."Ok".

@fgcvhhbvjhbj 4 года назад

Builder: "Don't fall off the ladda" Mahk: "I'll see what I can do"

@optimus_prime_____ 6 лет назад

I live for the 2pac that starts playing in the background @ 2:58. Lol I’d love to see an update of what the house now looks like

@AfricanSouthernCross 5 лет назад

“There’s one more thing I want to try”, comes back with loads of cardboard boxes and says move house 😂😂😂😂😂

@BillyN31 4 года назад

Mark Shaw 😂😂😂

@daviddaywalker3844 4 года назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@whocares0692 3 года назад

Or burn it down

@benmenke 6 лет назад

Makes my skin crawl 1:53

@erikmartir9312 6 лет назад

I had to take my headphones off, I'm still crawling.

@DiscoFang 6 лет назад

Ben Menke haha ditto! And fingernails on a chalkboard don't seem to effect me but that did!

@censor1934 7 лет назад

Old school clip! Love it.

@mackwood2164 6 лет назад

I got vines off my house by killing the main root points at the gound, letting it die, then next season It was easy to remove.

@nunyabiznis817 5 лет назад

Removing isn't hard. It's the repairing of the aftermath that is more labor intensive. In fact, it's easier to remove when it's still alive.

@alifah34 5 лет назад

How did you kill it?

@neoasura 5 лет назад

@@nunyabiznis817 Maybe where you live, but here in Michigan, the Winter will take care of any leftover Ivy once you kill off the roots.

@ThePolicenaut 4 года назад

alifah cut the root

@northpolltv6598 4 года назад

@@alifah34 ivy is hard to kill. The surest way is dig up as much root as you can then douse what's left with "Roundup" foliage killer. Nothing else will do, it's got to be Roundup.

@lapieuvreoptimale 6 лет назад

I want to see the end result

@nutz4gunz457 6 лет назад

LaPieuvre Optimale It’s not finished yet, they are still sanding to this very day.

@chrisfi3d 5 лет назад

Yep. I heard he had kids and they moved out last year - couldn’t stand the sander noise anymore apparently.

@origins777 5 лет назад

@@nutz4gunz457 word on the street, they just finally finished the front. Moving on to the big side now.

@tammystewart10 5 лет назад

@@origins777 seriously?

@origins777 5 лет назад

@@tammystewart10 sarcasm.😁

@bestever7046 4 года назад

Wow what a job!

@alshoreibah4423 5 лет назад

I had the same problem on my brick house. Fortunately a power washer took off all that ivy and made my brick look like new...!

@sacredinferno2112 4 года назад

"If you feel any resistance then stop" Proceeds to yank at the ivy multiple times throughout the video 😂

@walterbrunswick 2 года назад

A little resistance is good, but no more than 45 ohms

@barneysykes4013 4 года назад

My recommended does present me with some gems sometimes

@bobsacamano251 5 лет назад

Legend has it, he's still there working, scrapping with his finger nail.

@QuantumRift 6 лет назад

Herbicide? Hint - where you cut that IVY stem, take some tape (doesnt matter what kind, duck tape, etc) and wrap it AROUND the cut, so you build up a 'cup', with the cut face of the stem on the bottom. In that 'cup you make, pour some table salt, and let nature take its course. No herbicide needed.

@japengon 4 года назад

It looks nice with the plants , the problem is that US homes are made of wood. Here in Mexico are made from concrete and the vines helps with the high heat

@Brandon_Jackson 6 лет назад

3:15 “turn it sidewords” that’s a new one😄

@---cr8nw 6 лет назад

"Sidewards"

@theartoftech 6 лет назад

'Taking some paint off....unfortunately, taking some paint off...again, taking some paint off' :D Good job guys!

@Heddrick 5 лет назад

They're still shooting the episode to this day. Damn those sneakers!

@diz0baby 3 года назад

Just finished the back side, headed around front...

@venividivici4253 4 года назад

Great acting here. Feels natural and not scripted.

@luckyvet 4 года назад

Back when we were young and energetic like this homeowner - unafraid of overwhelmingly painful jobs like this. Now I look at these jobs & get knots in my stomach.

@cliffcarlo180 6 лет назад

Back in the 50s and 60s, Ivy was being sold at garden centres with the advice to let it grow up your house wall. Then, of course, the problems occurred that this was indeed an extremely bad idea. In the 80s while working for a garden maintenance company we had dozens of customers who asked for their ivy to be removed. We would cut it off at the base of the plant, then another cut a couple of feet up. As the base tried to regrow we would attend and spray or paint with a very strong licenced herbicide. The top growth would slowly die and drop to the ground. 12 months later we would attend and remove the now very dead ivy by hand which was so much easier than trying to remove a very stubborn living ivy plant.

@Cragified 6 лет назад

Depends entirely on the species of vine. If it uses the pads like here then it's easier to take off live as it will come down together instead of breaking apart. However, if it is the kind and twirls around things then that stuff you have to kill first or you'll rip whatever it's attached too off trying to get it down.

@cliffcarlo180 6 лет назад

There are about 5 species of Ivy but only two were widely sold at garden centres. Ivy, any plant of the genus Hedera, with about five species of evergreen woody vines (rarely shrubs), in the ginseng family (Araliaceae). The name ivy especially denotes the commonly grown English ivy (H. helix), which climbs by aerial roots with adhering disks that develop on the stems. These were the two species that were treated and removed as described causing little or no damage to the supporting wall or structure.

@Cragified 6 лет назад

Far more then Ivy has been used to 'adorn' the walls of structures. Climbing hydrangea, Schizophragma, and wisteria to name a view. Notice I said vine, not Ivy in my previous reply.

@ItsAllGood550 Год назад

@@Cragified Are those vines also bad? I'm guessing that anything growing on a structure is bad. Sorry, new to gardening.

@truantray 11 месяцев назад

The problem is cheap American houses with cheap siding. No issues with brick or stone houses.

@plumbingstuffinoregon2471 5 лет назад

The only other time I've seen that much ivy on a house is if it's abandoned! Holy crap!

@KNOXBLOX 7 лет назад

Hi TOH, why wouldn't you first spray the ivy with some sort of vegetationcide? Wouldn't it dry up the ivy and then make the ivy easier to remove by hand and scraper?

@vinnypinatelli221 4 года назад

Thats gonna look so much better

@scoobyloo3157 4 года назад

Any chance of seeing the end result, now that it's two and a half years on? That's the bit I was looking forward to!

@recordball 2 года назад

Maak, I’m going to go out to the Caa and get something to get rid of these sneekas!

@luckyvet 4 года назад

Off hand question, if you had a more durable surface (brick) could you 'pressha warsh it?

@kristil5991 7 лет назад

It's Roger!!

@novasoccer 4 года назад

Would love to see the finished product.

@aaronbays4 5 лет назад

Never knew ladder had an h and another a in it lol. I think I would have left that vine on there until I was ready to replace the siding. Scraping it, sanding, primer, then paint sounds like more $$$$(labor) than just ripping it off and replacing it. I also didn't think you could paint alumimum siding, figured it would be very difficult to get the paint to stick/stay on long term.

@ebneigh5191 2 года назад

JFK wasn’t assassinated, he became a landscaper.

@scallywag1716 4 года назад

I would have kept on driving by the home and not even give my wife a chance to see the inside. That’s an insane amount of work. I hope he got a hell of a deal on the home.

@audreywegener 4 года назад

Scallywag we did and it turned out amazing too

@bearo5658 4 года назад

audrey wegener true that hehe

@AndWeDanceVlog 7 лет назад

Got to the end an all I wanna see is the final product 🙃

@SalvadorSTMZ 3 года назад

He sold the house and joined rodger for some hawtdaawgs.

@keith6400 4 года назад

I had a guy that wanted English ivy removed from a stone house. There were about forty places where it emerged from the ground with different sized stalks and trunks. I cut them all off two and ten inches from the ground leaving a foot wide void. I put a commercial stump killer on all the bits coming out of the ground and told the guy to leave it six months before we pull the top bits of his walls. He phoned nine months later when it had all died. The whole lot was pulled off in one complete piece. It was the exact shape of the house including dormer windows coming out of the roof. The big thing is letting stuff die off before pulling as all the little tendrils let go.

@keith6400 4 года назад

@Moon Pie Could well be the climate. In Cambridgeshire United Kingdom it is very seldom hot but often very mild and damp to wet. Are you referring to a USA location in perhaps an area where it is significantly warmer? The stuff I worked with covered an entire house but with a maximum of ten plants emerging from the ground some had trunks wider than an inch.

@PeterYacono 4 года назад

Sounds good

@cherylmatthews4066 6 лет назад

Leaf it out that wentvinto my eyes lolol. Great job.

@wcsd9577 5 лет назад

For a project that size and height, especially for someone not accustomed to tall ladders and using power tools simultaneously, it might be better to just buy some used scaffolding and work your way around the building, one section at a time. Clean, prep, and paint at your leisure in safety, and scaffolding is much more comfortable work on for hours on end. Then sell the scaffolding when you are finished, likely for what you paid for it.

@seededsoul 5 лет назад

WCSD Scaffolding!..great idea.

@clodiasnano500 4 года назад

Wow good video

@marieapple6866 5 лет назад

Could definitely tell this is a first-time home buyer to buy a house that has all those weeds growing on a house! I was the first time home buyer back 30 years ago and there are certain things that I would not want on a house I would buy. Vines growing on the house would definitely not be for me! I have a few other things but the vines are a no-brainer! Good luck guy cuz you're going to need it.

@audreywegener 4 года назад

Marie Apple for your information, all the vines were removed and the painting job was perfect. my first 6 years of life were in this home and it was nothing less then i beautiful clean home

@mpwall123 4 года назад

I love the look of vines on a home, call me old fashioned. I suppose they are more appropriate for brick exteriors, but are there any other varieties of vines out there that are less damaging to siding of this nature?

@MommaFig1 2 года назад

Boston ivy. It's beautiful with lovely fall color. After the leaves drop it pulls off easily. Let it regrow every year No problems

@iceman242436 3 года назад

-stares at house covered in more green than an Ewok tree fort- “You’ve got some ivy.” Roger Cook = Legend.

@user-wq6hr9xi2n 5 лет назад

Sounds good.

@bryghtgyrl 5 лет назад

When it starts to leaf he has to damage the leaves then paint it with herbicide. Ivy has a thick waxy layer on the leave that block the herbiside

@bloodhoundtown 3 года назад

The palm sander worked nice

@sean6077 6 лет назад

if that was my house, i'd just rip the siding off with it and put on new siding. no way would i pull off all that ivy, then sand, then primer, then paint. i'd just get new, pre-primed siding and go from there.

@chasiu75 Год назад

I love how he says Mahhk! 😆

@DementedDistraction 3 года назад

"It's poooshin' on ya guttah." "Ya shyura ya wanna do dis Maaawk?" "Weeruh nawt gettin' all deese sneekuhs off, and dat's gonna be da haaawwd paaawwt."

@Sifer2 4 года назад

I like how the guy is trying to clean it off with some strong cleaner that is stripping off the paint. And using heavy duty gloves for it. Then Maahk just tests it with his finger.

@ES-fr3yz 5 лет назад

I paakt my caah in the Haavad yaahd. Then,I went to the baah. When I left the baah,I couldn't find my caah and had to call my fathah.

@arhamgomez1652 4 года назад

LMFAO ur killing me smalls🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@BossladySupreme313 2 года назад

I have these on my house now. They made it all the way up my chimney. It's very beautiful, but I'm afraid they will grow down it and cause some damage. This video helped out a whole lot.

@MikeTheMaker1 6 лет назад

Sanding the entire outside of the house?!?!? No thank you

@ullgeologist Год назад

I’d like to see the finished product. Did the homeowner go through with it all the way or not?

@adamnelson7389 4 года назад

Totally stuck around for this guys accent

@s_p_a_c_e_m_a_n 4 года назад

Sounds good...

@loveforeverr2013 4 года назад

He from Boston for sure !

@Scrapla1 4 года назад

Best sound ever! 1:53

@RickSolid1 5 лет назад

Looks like a nice house, from what I can see. I think I’d do removal and prep but let a professional paint the house. A compromise of sorts. Still tho damn! I hope he got that house for a song!

@ForvoQuizlet 3 года назад

Hope Roger is doing okay. Don't hear much about him but I know he was sick a few years ago.

@ministrollamadefuego9161 7 лет назад

grat job! And how much should I charge for this job?

@micahrowe 20 дней назад

Sidewords. Never heard that one before. Soopah!

@mikeo8890 4 года назад

Cleaning off the sneakers is the hard part, you can touch and scrape the sneakers on a stucco or brick, house follow up with a power wash.

@johnmartinez7440 4 года назад

I hope he got a bargain on the house itself with all that ivy. Wish they'd add the final shot in for these videos - we want to see how it looks now!

@hfd268 4 года назад

They ended up moving was just too much work

@advancekashmir9846 3 года назад

@@hfd268 lol!

@DanSwanson2070 Год назад

What if you used RoundUp on those leaves? Wouldn't it kill the main plant? I know that stuff is not the safest, but...

@genuengine 6 лет назад

they got the 'hod pot' done

@nunyabiznis817 5 лет назад

I disagree, getting those "sneekahs" off the siding and then priming and painting...that's the hod pot.

@FernandoRodriguez-ds5ri 5 лет назад

Thumbnail though the chalkboard. I turned away but I could still hear it. Had goosebumps all over my body maaak! Dallas Texas

@austinstubblefield9907 4 года назад

I have a similar issue. Ruined a lot of my siding and brick.

@Aquariun9iteMMare 4 года назад

"Let's get stahted Mahk. First thing to notice on these stabilizing baws..."

@gerasssss Месяц назад

I love Rogers accent 😂

@aaronlaluzerne6639 5 лет назад

Why not use a hose pressure washer to pressure wash all the plant material off?

@livnatbianco 5 лет назад

I did vinegar then bleach then rubbing alcohol then ortho then gasoline then bleach again it wilted two days and came right back

@LazyScoutJace 4 года назад

He's like the Uncle to Mahk from those Chevy parodies 😂

@johnnyappleseed79 4 года назад

Whats the name of the herbicide to use? Have minor ivy issues myself.

@_DeadeyeGaming 2 года назад

Instead of ladders, you should’ve rented those like bucket thingys that they use for electrical lines

@edwardfabik3582 2 года назад

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Because you know the homeowner pays all costs on This Old House.

@maxHeadroom325rayxerin 5 лет назад

i love how most comments are mocking the video

@poshko41 11 месяцев назад

One of the genius owners of my house thought it'd be a smart idea to plant ivy like this right by the AC condenser... Thank god it wasn't as much as this, but I had the exact same issues dealing with residue after pulling all the vines off by hand. Sanding was the only effective solution and I had to use so much elbow grease that I ended up sanding through the paint to the bare aluminum in some places. Do not plant ivy.

@Sean-me4fv 4 года назад

I used a wire brush, and then a sander, and then repainted.

@nowirehangers2815 3 года назад

Thank you

@builderspluscustomhomesand2146 4 года назад

Somebody was jamming the hell outta "ow Do You Want It - 2pac" when they picked that ladder up lol.

@darylfitz4189 4 года назад

Roger: Hand me those lop-ahs. Apprentice: Hands Roger a hotdog.

@pkfan5112 2 года назад

I would cut off on the very bottom contact, dig out the roots let it dry for several weeks, the remove the upper stuff.

@tonymcrae6510 3 года назад

Man I removed thick vine off customers house yesterday and it was nowhere near this easy OR clean. I was dead when I got home. I fought with it all day. Have more to do I but I don't go near service lines....especially on a metal ladder.

@kelleyhice 5 лет назад

Yanking out vines is a do it yourself project. Sanding and painting your house is not. If the siding has to be replaced leave the Ivy up or let the contractor do it when the dumpster is in your driveway anyway. If you have to do it then pour ground clear and cut the largest roots at or below the ground first. Wait a few weeks until everything is dead and brittle. Wear gloves and pull from the ground up and you can get most of it without ladders or scaffolding. The rest will die off and fall.

@eastside9049 4 года назад

I wish they would show the end result

@cup_and_cone 7 лет назад

Hand sander??? Never heard of a pressure washer?! You have to paint as it is...

@addman 7 лет назад

ya that's what i would of tried first

@cup_and_cone 7 лет назад

Legend has it, he's still out there on a ladder, sanding to this very day. Maybe the crew showed back up the next day and realized their new homeowner prank was a bit harsh, lent him a washer.

@CrazyRoadblockisbae 7 лет назад

Even a sand blaster would be better.

@ImTheJoker4u 6 лет назад

Pressure washer aint gonna cut it on those pads. They stick like super glue. The entire building must be sanded, primed, and painted, which is why its a bad idea to let ivy grow on your house. Its a ton of labor to remove it when it inevitably becomes a problem.

@Captainwooooo 6 лет назад

I use pressure washer on my metal siding all the time .works great

@sqike001ton 6 лет назад

I guess I'm an old ball I like the ivy and would probably let the stuff there I guess on aluminum siding its a bad move but I had ivy on my childhood home and I loved it but it was red brick