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Woke up on Friday morning to this 🙁 :
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To be honest, funds that had been set aside in Spring to sort it out had to rapidly diverted to getting the house ready for deadly junior's arrival at Christmas, so it went on the "sort-it-out-next-year" list. Neighbours couldn't be more understanding and are in no hurry to get it done. They hardly use their back garden anyway.
The pointing was shot to pieces, and having seen the state the "mortar" was in, I don't think a bit of re-pointing would have saved it other than cosmetically anyway.
So, I'm going to see if I can salvage the bricks, and have a number for a good brickie (I hope 😯 ) but need to sort out some ivy that's grown through the foundations and up the middle of the first few courses of brick. See following pics:
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and this (root has snapped when wall came down):
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What do I do with these roots? If I cut them back and pour a load of bleach on them, would this kill them? Or do I need to do something even more remedial? As can be seen from the pics, the ivy was pretty healthy (too bloody healthy obviously) so the roots will need sorting.
SBK is the stuff you need for that, make sure you follow the instructions.....
Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure
ouch! I had something similar with creeping Ivy - got advice from Roundup to Diesel.
In the end an old boy put me onto ammonium-sulphamate. It's not 'restricted' but no longer marketed/tested under any brands. Google for some more info - normally find it as a bulk material on ebay.
I mixed thickly with dish soap and water (so it sticks on the waxy leaves) and it has been very effective! Or you can bag it onto a growing 'limb' like that one - it will die back.
Good luck
If you're going to dig new foundations you can dig the roots out and line the trench with weed proof membrane, as well as pour fresh concrete in.
OH HOW THE OTHER HALF....
OH 😯
Had some success finding teh main root on an ivy infestation.Drilled holes down into it which I topped up with weed killer... worked a treat.
Growing success ivy killer. Took a fair few applications but worked in the end. I had the same problem - the root dislodged the bricks in our wall.
We had similar at our old house, but not as bad - just peeled the faces of all the bricks on a wall after the wind caught it.
Was a bastard to cut up in a small yard. So was the ivy 😉
I've been looking at this all afternoon and I only have one question - is the new bike under the wall?
Think you can still get the ammonium from Ebay - more info below..
I recently wrote about Growing Success Ivy Killer containing ammonium sulphamate. I am grateful to emailer Douglas Parkes who had trouble getting hold of this product and, on contacting the company that makes it, was told that it had been withdrawn because the registration elapsed last May.
Richard Whitehead, editor of the UK Pesticide Guide, informs me that distributors, retailers and gardeners have until 22 May this year to sell or use any product they may have. Since Growing Success Ivy Killer is best used in winter, if you can still get it, use it - but get your skates on. An alternative treatment that will kill the roots of ivy if applied to its freshly cut stumps and which does not contain ammonium sulphamate is SBK Brushwood Killer by Vitax.
Glyphosate ( http://www.monsanto-ag.co.uk/content.output/173/173/Roundup/Difficult%20Weeds/Ivy.mspx) should do it - apply to cut roots.