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Does creepers harm the brick wall?

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I often hear some people warn against using vines and ivies on brick walls--that tendrils and damage the mortar, and that it harbors insects. However, since certain churches, castles, and universities have been covered in vines for centuries, I am curious what the big deal is. read more

Having plants winding their way up your outside walls can look very pretty but the actual DAMAGE some plant life does to your wall will make you think twice in allowing the plant to grow in the first place. read more

We have a Virginia Creeper growing up the back of our three storey house. It needs a radical prune once a year and bits taken off it occasionally during the summer. (see page 3 of our photos - we reduce it to half its height). read more

Millions of these penetrations into the wall can mass to one big incursion into the exterior wall surface and it doesn’t take Alan Titchmarsh to tell you that plants entering the fabric of the building will suck natural moisture in walls and undermine adhesion of the parts of the wall that make up bricks and blocks etc, basically weakening the wall. read more

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