How To Deal With Dry Rot And Wet Rot

Dry Rot

Dry Rot is a wood-destroying fungus that is found in most parts of the world. It affects forest timbers, dry rot is best known for its ability to destroy timbers

in ships and buildings.

What Are The Symptoms Of Dry Rot?

Matted whitish growth tinged with yellow or lilac patches.

A growth resembling a pancake with a russet colour at the centre.

A distinct and quite acrid mushroom-y smell.

Wood Split, shrink or crumbly, darkens and cracks in a 'cuboidal' Manner.

A silky grey to mushroom coloured skin frequently tinged with patches.

How Is Dry Rot Treated?

Eliminating the source of water causing the damp. Be particularly vigilant for:

Leaky plumbing, guttering or pipework including downspouts and overflows from cisterns condensation.

Rainwater coming through gaps in doors and windows.

Damaged or ‘bridged’ DPC (damp proof course).

Missing roof tiles, flashing or cladding.

Blocked air bricks

Wet Rot

Wet Rot is timber that is decaying naturally in the presence of high moisture Levels. A variety of wet rot species responsible for wood rot, the most common

being “Cellar Fungus”.

What Are The Symptoms Of Wet Rot?

The moisture combined with the presence of wood can provide the ideal breeding ground for wet rot spores.

It could be that you have a leaky roof, leaking pipes, a washing machine that has not been connected up correctly.

How Is Wet Rot Treated?

Wet rot, as its name implies, is present when there’s direct and sustained contact with water. Eliminating the source of ingress.

Removing and replacing affected timbers. If only a small area has been affected the rotten wood should be removed back to sound timber and the surrounding area treated with an epoxy wood hardener and preservative.

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