| class="googleright"> | | | | Dry rot usually results from too much moisture in |
| Dry rot is a 1956 British Comedy film starring Brain | | | | contact with wood. The dry rot fungus has the |
| Rix, Ronald Shiner and Sid James. My article is not to | | | | unusual ability to transport water from wet areas to |
| talk on this topic; itâs about the problem | | | | dry areas allowing the fungus to grow in relatively |
| from which the house suffers. Dry rot is the decay | | | | dry wood. |
| of timber due to the fungus Serpula Lacrymans. It is | | | | It is often confused with carpenter ant or termite |
| considered as the most serious decay of timber. | | | | damage. The most important way to prevent dry rot |
| Dry rot is a condition of wood in which a fungus | | | | damage is to reduce or eliminate excess moisture. |
| breaks down wood fibers and renders the wood | | | | This is as simple as repairing a leaky pipe or as |
| weak and brittle. The fungus digests the part of the | | | | complicated as stopping water infiltration through a |
| wood that gives the wood strength and stiffness. | | | | basement foundation. |