How to remove moss from brickwork?

Last year (autumn time) I gave all the brickwork in the garden a good clean with a wire brush and thought that it would not reappear. How wrong was I? Its come back worse than before and this might be due to the wet weather?
Anyone got any tried and tested method of getting rid of moss on brickwork permanently?

If it's like our driveway, you need to use a proprietary   moss killer - there's load on the market - then give it a good scrub.

Scrubbing alone will only push the moss spores deeper into the brick work.

That's what I did.

I used some lawn weed & feed that contained a moss killer, as I'd got some kicking round, but you can get some specifically for that.

That's what I did.

I used some lawn weed & feed that contained a moss killer, as I'd got some kicking round, but you can get some specifically for that.

So have got a lovely lawn where your drive was     

We have the same problem on our decking round the side of the house, it gets very little sun so it ends up covered in a slippery green coating with lots of moss filling the grooves in the deck boards.
I have scrubbed it in the past with Jeyes fluid but it comes back every year, i think i'll give moss killer a go too this year 



Andy

I won't be doing ours until March time anyhow.
Im really looking forward to this years growing season  :happy:

The temperature is more for the product itself, at a degree which it can start to work rather than sit dormant upon the moss and not work. (and waste your money)

>Anyone got any tried and tested method of getting rid of moss on brickwork permanently?

I'd have thought that if the conditions are right for moss growing then it will keep on coming back unless you change the environment (reduce shade/reduce humidity etc), so expect to do this every year.

You could try creating a permenantly 'hostile' environment to stop the moss growing back rather than killing it back every year - for example put a strip of copper (slug tape?) or zinc at the top of the wall - minute quantities of the metals will wash over the wall when it rains and could well discourage the moss from growing back.

Just a thought

SS

I did that a couple of years ago and managed to wash out a load of the mortar between the bricks so the OH was not amused. I'll try the chemical attack first and then might go back to the pressure washer.