Dry rot can cause significant damage to your home. The fungi attach themselves deep into the building material with their fungal threads. Dry rot is also far from optimal for your health. So it needs to be eliminated. But how exactly do you do that? We’re happy to share our expertise below.
What Exactly is Dry Rot?
Dry rot is an unpleasant guest in homes that struggle with moisture problems. On the surface, dry rot looks like a common fungus, but through fungal threads, the fungus is anchored deep into the building material. Dry rot spreads through the house with toxic spores and requires professional treatment methods. At Solusio, we can help you with that.
How Dangerous is Dry Rot?
Dry rot is not only unsightly, it’s also dangerous. Not just for your health, but also for your home. First of all, you need to tackle dry rot as quickly as possible to prevent illness. Dry rot is particularly harmful to your health. It reproduces with toxic spores. When you inhale these spores or touch the dry rot, you may experience health issues. Skin irritation, itching, and eczema are common, as are respiratory complaints.
But unfortunately, it doesn’t stop there. Dry rot firmly anchors itself in building materials with fungal threads. These can penetrate deep into wood or bricks. This not only makes it difficult to banish dry rot from your home once and for all, but it’s also harmful to your home itself. The fungal threads attack the building material. This causes the walls to be less stable and also promotes penetrating moisture. Masonry and pointing are especially vulnerable to these fungal threads. So caution is advised.
Dry Rot is Particularly Dangerous for Wood
Dry rot is dangerous everywhere, but when the fungus comes into contact with wood, you need to be extra alert. Wood, especially damp wood, is the ideal breeding ground for dry rot. Damp and rotting wood contains all the nutrients that dry rot needs. And then these fungi literally pop up like mushrooms.
Wood is incorporated in almost every home. In old houses, you need to be most careful, as there’s a lot of wood used as support beams. There’s also a lot of wood in the roof structure and crawl space. Also check your wooden window frames and doors. You might not expect fungi there, but they can attach themselves there as well. Often, common molds precede the formation of dry rot.
When dry rot has settled in a load-bearing wooden structure, you must always take action as quickly as possible. The fungal threads can spread to the core of the wood, resulting in stability problems.
How Can You Combat the Dangerous Dry Rot?
The experts at Solusio know how to deal with dry rot. It’s important to tackle the infestation very thoroughly, with professional means. It’s better to do this as quickly as possible, because once dry rot has invaded your home, it can easily spread to other damp spots. Then it only becomes more difficult and expensive to treat the dry rot.
Our professionals will always thoroughly check if there are other areas in the home with dry rot, mold, or moisture problems in early stages that you might not have noticed yourself yet. Sometimes you can’t see these with the naked eye. Of course, these moisture problems, which are the root cause of the dry rot problem, must also be addressed. If you don’t do that, the dry rot will simply come back.
First, we will examine and treat the dry rot itself. How we do this depends on the extent of the dry rot infestation and the underlying building material.
Can You Remove Dry Rot from your Home Yourself?
In DIY stores, you can easily buy products to remove dry rot. These will be effective to a certain extent. You can use them to remove the fungal growths themselves and treat the surface of the affected building material. Unfortunately, these products will not be strong enough to reach the deeper-lying fungal threads. Even grandmother’s remedies for treatment, such as vinegar or even petroleum, will not penetrate deep enough.
It is therefore important to call in a professional. Skilled workers have professional equipment and use agents that penetrate deep into the building material. This way, the dry rot can be eliminated with a guarantee, so that it never returns. The same applies to mold problems, by the way.
Solusio Combats Dry Rot in your Area
Are you dealing with dry rot in your home? Then it’s better to take action as soon as possible. The experts from Solusio would be happy to visit you for a free inspection. This way, we can investigate where exactly these dry rot fungi are coming from and how we can eradicate them once and for all. Our professional approach and expertise guarantee a healthy living environment. Contact us today.