Dry & Wet Rot Treatment Nottingham

Larklands Preservation are have many years experience in combating Wet or Dry Rot in all types of domestic and commercial properties.

Dry Rot

Despite its name, dry rot, like most other property 'ailments', requires moisture to take hold.

Dry Rot is a type of fungus (Serpula lacrymans), and the strands can extend far away from the damp wood, and can grow all the way through bricks and mortar to affect distant areas of the property far away from where it began. In this case, special treatment will be required, which includes, amongst others, fungicide sterilisation of the brickwork and the mortar. It only affects timber which is damp, characteristically a moisture content of greater than 20%.

Timber can turn out to be damp for several reasons, and amongst the most widespread causes are leaking washing machines, baths, shower-trays, condensation etc.

The damp can also come from the exterior of the building, e.g., leaking roofs, rising damp, or dampness penetrating through walls. Whatever the cause of the dampness, if it is rectified and the timber is thoroughly allowed to dry out, the dry rot will finally be removed.

Wet Rot

There are a number of different types of Wet Rot, and they all show slightly differing features; but they all rely on the wood to be damp, e.g. wall plates, floor joist ends, etc. Wet Rot is again, a type of fungus (mainly Coniophora puteana), but in this case, it is somewhat easier to eradicate, in that, the bringing to an end the actual source of the moisture and by the cutting out of the affected sections of timber. The substituted timbers will then be segregated from any moisture by installing a damp proof membrane.

If the actual damaged area is confined to a small area, we will apply epoxy resin filler after it has had the damaged timber cut away to where there is sound wood, and then the complete surface will be treated with an appropriate primer. After the area has been repaired, all external timbers will be protected against any further occurrences by the use of sufficient coats of paint or another suitable timber preservative.