Robbbo
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Hi,
I’m hoping someone can help! I live in a 70s built, gritstone property with large cavity (by 70s standards), cavity fill (also done when built). Concrete floor, on hardcore, asphalt, visqueen. Various alterations over the years.
I got a probe camera to double-check we have cavity fill, but since then have delved into the murky world of poking it in places I wish I hadn’t!
I’ve found a few ‘potential’ areas of dry rot, and I’m massively freaking out and in need of a sanity-check!
There were clearly historic problems with two leaking flat-roof dormers (which are now pitched, and not leaking now).
Evidence of old dry rot mycelium here.
There was a huge amount of moss on the roof caused the occasional leak, along with broken tiles (got rid of the moss, and replaced tiles now). But signs of old dry rot mycelium.
Also, I recently uncovered a blocked rainwater gulley that wasn’t allowing water to drain away from an entire side of the house by the kitchen.
Which then led me to find evidence of old mycelium (grey stringy skin amongst wood shavings) under the kitchen plinth, seemingly plastered over at points too.
Since then, I’ve actually found old signs of it everywhere I look.
The thing that’s now worrying me is that I’ve found signs of both old and VERY new mycelium (a very small, cotton-woolly white growth) new behind some oak skirting of two rotting doorframes (suspecting it’s because of a leaking or sweating pipe in the floor, but no real signs of any continuous leaks)
The old stuff seems to have been creeping its way up the internal blockwork around the perimeter of the whole house!
So, to my question… what do I do? Do I learn to live with it and ensure that I keep doing what I’m doing to stave it off?
Or do I need to get more nuclear on it?
A structural survey didn’t pick anything up, but I’m concerned about this insidious thing creeping about where I can’t see!
Pics attached (in case it is not in fact dry rot).
TIA
I’m hoping someone can help! I live in a 70s built, gritstone property with large cavity (by 70s standards), cavity fill (also done when built). Concrete floor, on hardcore, asphalt, visqueen. Various alterations over the years.
I got a probe camera to double-check we have cavity fill, but since then have delved into the murky world of poking it in places I wish I hadn’t!
I’ve found a few ‘potential’ areas of dry rot, and I’m massively freaking out and in need of a sanity-check!
There were clearly historic problems with two leaking flat-roof dormers (which are now pitched, and not leaking now).
Evidence of old dry rot mycelium here.
There was a huge amount of moss on the roof caused the occasional leak, along with broken tiles (got rid of the moss, and replaced tiles now). But signs of old dry rot mycelium.
Also, I recently uncovered a blocked rainwater gulley that wasn’t allowing water to drain away from an entire side of the house by the kitchen.
Which then led me to find evidence of old mycelium (grey stringy skin amongst wood shavings) under the kitchen plinth, seemingly plastered over at points too.
Since then, I’ve actually found old signs of it everywhere I look.
The thing that’s now worrying me is that I’ve found signs of both old and VERY new mycelium (a very small, cotton-woolly white growth) new behind some oak skirting of two rotting doorframes (suspecting it’s because of a leaking or sweating pipe in the floor, but no real signs of any continuous leaks)
The old stuff seems to have been creeping its way up the internal blockwork around the perimeter of the whole house!
So, to my question… what do I do? Do I learn to live with it and ensure that I keep doing what I’m doing to stave it off?
Or do I need to get more nuclear on it?
A structural survey didn’t pick anything up, but I’m concerned about this insidious thing creeping about where I can’t see!
Pics attached (in case it is not in fact dry rot).
TIA