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Dry rot treatment
and is it curable?
The treatment for dry rot will vary depending upon the type of rot, the age of the property and the extent of the outbreak.
All treatments will require the source of the water to be discovered and cured, the removal of decayed timbers and of the rot. To completely eradicate the dry rot, plaster has to be removed so as to allow brickwork to be sterilised with a dry rot killer. In some situations even solid floors have to be removed.
The treatment for dry rot:
- Remove all affected materials up to 1 meter from the dry rot
- Curing the source of the water. If the damage is minimal, this alone might be enough. The fungi requires a moisture level of at least 20% to survive. If the moisture level falls below this the dry rot will die
- Treating damaged timber with an epoxy that is a dry rot killer and will restore the timber's structural integrity by filling in the channels of the damaged wood
- The application of copper compounds or ethylene glycol
- The complete replacement of materials damaged by the dry rot
This photograph demonstrates the need to remove wall plaster to establish the full extent of the attack. As can be seen the dry rot in the above picture has eaten away a built in structural timber running horizontally beneath a ceiling joist.
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