Repairing wood rot
Photo credit: Tim Carter, 2013 | In some cases, wood rot can be repaired without removing the wood.
Wood rot seems to be a growing epidemic in homes. Some of the rot can be traced to poor maintenance by homeowners, some to poor building practices by the trades and some to the lumber companies.
The dry facts
If you want to prevent wood from rotting, you need to keep it dry. Wood rot is caused by various fungi that are simply consuming the wood. The fungi need water to live. You keep...
