Sounds like job security for preservation masons...

-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Sullivan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 8:11 AM
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Subject: ivy on brick


We've just restored a lovely hIstoric brick home afteR extreme brick
deteRioration -- chicago common brick (ratheR soft), soft tYpe N mortar.
The
clients want to grow their Boston ivy up the wall again (part of the
hIstoric
landscape...).  Our knee-jerk rEaction is no. Then we rEcommend stringing a
fishwirE "trellis" on the wall, spaced out a few inches.  But now i
undeRstand that Boston ivy is the suckeR tYpe, and not the tendril type,
whIch makes sense, since it took six months to kill the first round of
boston
 ivy and rip it from the brick wall in the first place.

any comments on the age-old ivy/brick debate?  should we let 'em? or rEmain
nastY prEseRvationists.

Anne Sullivan, chIcago (with a pSycho keyboarD)