I bought a 1900ish stone house which had been fully "renovated", dry lined throughout and a few months later I found mushrooms which I soon realised were dry rot.
I stripped the offending wall of the insulated plasterboard and chipped off all the old plaster which I'm pretty sure is the original lime, there were strands of mycelium under the plaster which I cleaned off, drilled into the stone and treated with a dry rot treatment and have left the wall exposed for the last year.
I thought this had solved the problem but I have just found more mushrooms higher up the wall, under the dry lining up the staircase. I realise I'm probably going to have to strip the whole house of these slabs. My question is do I need to take all of the old lime plaster off to fully get rid of the dry rot or will removing the slabs be enough? Can I leave the original plaster and maybe paint over it with limewash or a clay paint rather than getting the hammer and chisel back out?
This has been a total learning curve and I'd be grateful to anyone with experience in dealing with these old houses, especially on a tight budget.
I stripped the offending wall of the insulated plasterboard and chipped off all the old plaster which I'm pretty sure is the original lime, there were strands of mycelium under the plaster which I cleaned off, drilled into the stone and treated with a dry rot treatment and have left the wall exposed for the last year.
I thought this had solved the problem but I have just found more mushrooms higher up the wall, under the dry lining up the staircase. I realise I'm probably going to have to strip the whole house of these slabs. My question is do I need to take all of the old lime plaster off to fully get rid of the dry rot or will removing the slabs be enough? Can I leave the original plaster and maybe paint over it with limewash or a clay paint rather than getting the hammer and chisel back out?
This has been a total learning curve and I'd be grateful to anyone with experience in dealing with these old houses, especially on a tight budget.