Can anyone recommend a brush on treatment for dry rot fungus on
brickwork, the offending wood has been removed but I've still got a
couple of square metres of 'growth'. Local shops all have wood hardener
but that's not what I need. There won't be any wood going back, it was
what was simply stored against a slightly damp wall.

Peter

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Peter Andrews writes:
Can anyone recommend a brush on treatment for dry rot fungus on
brickwork, the offending wood has been removed but I've still got a
couple of square metres of 'growth'. Local shops all have wood hardener
but that's not what I need. There won't be any wood going back, it was
what was simply stored against a slightly damp wall.

I think it's normally torched off with a blow lamp, but watch for
any holes through the wall, and not setting light to something on
the other side.

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Andrew Gabriel
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On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 18:01:11 +0000, Peter Andrews wrote:

Can anyone recommend a brush on treatment for dry rot fungus on
brickwork, the offending wood has been removed but I've still got a
couple of square metres of 'growth'. Local shops all have wood hardener
but that's not what I need. There won't be any wood going back, it was
what was simply stored against a slightly damp wall.

Peter

Cuprinol 5 Star may be suitable.



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Windows 8.1 on PCSpecialist box

On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 18:01:11 +0000, Peter Andrews wrote:

Can anyone recommend a brush on treatment for dry rot fungus on
brickwork, the offending wood has been removed but I've still got a
couple of square metres of 'growth'.

Cuprinol 5* might deal with it but if you haven't cured the damp it
may well go "exploring" for any other timber it can get at. If it
really is/was dry rot it's an insideous fungus and can spread more or
less invisibly from where it is obvious. I'm under the impression
that commercial treatment firms remove everything within a meter of
the visible growth, then treat the exposed surface before reinstating
plaster etc. But if they don't cure the damp...

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Cheers
Dave.

On 07/01/15 18:01, Peter Andrews wrote:
Can anyone recommend a brush on treatment for dry rot fungus on
brickwork, the offending wood has been removed but I've still got a
couple of square metres of 'growth'. Local shops all have wood hardener
but that's not what I need. There won't be any wood going back, it was
what was simply stored against a slightly damp wall.

Peter


You used to be able to get "dry rot treatment" chemical for wood and
masonry. Stinks - lots of ventilation needed.

"Peter Andrews" wrote in message
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Can anyone recommend a brush on treatment for dry rot fungus on brickwork,
the offending wood has been removed but I've still got a couple of square
metres of 'growth'. Local shops all have wood hardener but that's not
what I need. There won't be any wood going back, it was what was simply
stored against a slightly damp wall.

Peter

Cuprinol five star.
The price will make you wince.