Cleaning ivy from bricks

[MeMeMeow85]

I’ve just removed a big patch of ivy on the front of our new house. The red bricks behind look in good condition, but there’s residue left from the ivy. Any tips please for cleaning the bricks? Thank you

Bricks are easily damaged, you don’t want them to become more porous than they naturally are.
When I’ve removed ivy the residue usually fall off/ erodes naturally over a year.

As JT05, that's my experience of Ivy too. I have sped things up it with bleach before now but winters coming and and anything left soon weathers off in any case and that's the safest way.

this cropped up in another thread recently.

Round my way we had ivy mite that slowly made its way along a 50-metre wall, killing the ivy except next to an apple tree that I used to spray. I stopped spraying the tree and the remaining ivy died (so did the tree).

I had a look at the wall and all the ivy has rotted away or fallen off now, I don't even see its feet clinging to the bricks. It took a couple of years.