Weeding the garden

When we got our house inspected the guy told us to get rid of the ivy growing on/near the house. He said that it attracks termites and other creepy crawly things, and that's not a good thing. We thought it would be a cinch. It looks like pretty flimsy stuff. Well it is tough, back breaking work. We will have to do it in stages because it is such a pain in the butt.