Wood Rotting Fungus Treatment

A wood decay fungus is any species of fungus that digests moist wood causing it to rot some species of wood decay fungi attack dead wood such as brown rot and some such as armillaria honey fungus are parasitic and colonize living trees.

Wood rotting fungus treatment.

Dry rot treatment refers to techniques used to eliminate dry rot fungus and alleviate the damage done by the fungus to human built wooden structures. However poria incrassata called dry rot or the water conducting fungus will decay wood which would not be attacked by typical decay fungi. Borates dissolve in water so you can make your own fungus repellant. Poria infested wood is often mistakenly identified as subterranean termite damage.

There are two types of homemade dry rot treatments. Treatments made of ethylene glycol kills both wood consuming fungi and insects that are drawn to damaged and weakened wood. Most decay fungi are unable to conduct water very far and can only attack moist wood. You can use borate chemicals to create an environment in the wood that repels the fungus that causes dry rot.

Excessive moisture above the fibre saturation point in wood is required for fungal colonization and proliferation. Both borate and glycol treatments soak into dry wood because they are water.