dry rot help!!

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we had a slow leaking pipe in our hallway, it caused the nearby skirting board to get damp and dry rot has arisen.

we had the plumber in, the pipe was under our wooden floorboards, sitting on soil and the plumber did not detect any of the floor joists (sp) etc was wet although the soil below was damp.

anyway, we will need to get the dry rot sorted on the wall, however does anyone know if we will have to have all the floorboards lifted and the soil below to be dried out and our entire floor treated before the dry rot treatment?

we are lower ground flat, so assuming all buildings are built on top of soil, surely there will be some water pulling up from the ground?

any advise, thoughts much appreciated. i am calling a few more dry rot people to get other opinions as we've only had one survey....

thanks so much

Are there lots of floorboards damaged in the room? if not and its only a few there is a bottle of dry rot kill you can get in b&q for about £16. (think its also in wilkinsons cheaper too). anyway we removed all the walls in our upstairs bedrooms and found we had dry rot so before we could replace the walls we just sprayed this onto the areas left it over night and were told it was ok.

if your looking for it this is it

thanks for replying very useful info, i've been told that dry rot can spread forever, have you had any more dry rot? did you just get a builder to remove the walls? quotes are coming in pretty high for them to take walls down and spray and put back!! thanks again

Hi

No the spray stuff has been absoutely perfect for us, we've since found more downstairs and just taken of the skirting boards and sprayed wherever we found it.
The walls upstairs were latham plaster (think thats how you spell it) but no it didnt take long to come down, im guessing that most upstairs are stud partition walls also, its more the mess that gets on your nerves the most though, we had a few of us knocking all the plaster down, and bagging it up, we then de nailed the wall completely and were then ready to put back up 8 by 4 sheets of plasterboard, we also took this opportunity to insulate the walls too ( around £25 a bag from b&Q for 5 average sized walls we used only 3 bags). due to lack of funds weve left the rooms were not using yet like this just ready to be skimmed, and some we've already had done and painted, we were originally quoted around £900 to take the walls down and replace them, we ended up spending around £200 with the insulation and skip hire to get rid of the rubble, the plasterboard was £6 a sheet from builders yards so its definatly worth doing it yourself, as long as you spray the solution on all the places you have the rot it stops it from spreading, and you should be fine, if you need to know anything else just ask, thanks

ah that is reassuring to hear, i have a builder coming by today to quote on hacking out the walls, will see if its much cheaper.

with the skirting boards, will you be hacking off the wall behind it spraying then render and plaster again?

thanks so much, appreciate your replies, we are definately hoping not to have to spend a packet if possible!

You need to find out what type of walls you have i.e is it plaster on brick or just stud walls, if just stud walls it would take approx a couple of house to remove a few walls yourself so if your looking at not spending too muchid definatly do this part yourself and let them put them back up as thats more fiddly, cutting the boards to the right length and making sure they sit on a partition piece is more time consuming than you imagine.

But yes thats what weve done taken of all the skirting where we can, ripped off the walls and sprayed, then boarded up again (in a brick pattern) and now having it skimmed as we get the money to do it.

Thanks vix the quote from the builder is a fraction of the cost our walls are plaster on brick? I think with professional damp companies they must mark up a few times to cover repeat work in say their 30 year guarantee! We'll get under the floor professionally sprayed as a precaution but builders for the rest!

Thanks again.