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Anyone have experience treating dry rot themselves?
Joists seem ok or are being replaced due to woodworm. Signs of rot is mainly on the earth under the floor and on masonry.
After fitting air bricks and such, plan is to suit up and dig out any signs of it on the earth, scrub bricks and dispose of anything that comes off and then finally spray with some sort of fungicide/rot killing product.
Probably going to have to treat underfloor in the rear room first, then cellar (under front room) a month or two later. Not ideal, but hoping it won't cause too many problems that way.
Bit concerned I'm underestimating the "simplicity" of this and it's going to end up taking ages and completely ruin me. There's a bunch of other stuff that will need doing when new joists go in to level the floor and such too, plus there wiring's just loose under the floor in the back so that'll need tidying up. Plan is to insulate after sorting rot and such.