Exempel på dry rot

• If there is dry rot, the beam will often crumble under a slight pressure of the fingers. 

• In the next paper it is proposed to deal with the so-called "dry rot" in timber which has been felled and cut up—a disease which has produced much distress at various times and in various countries. 

• Why, I see what looks like a patch of dry rot up yonder, that I bet I could stick my fist into, said he. 

• This dry rot also fitted into the continuum mentioned above.

• But alas, jargon creeps like dry rot from the foundations of a definition into its very heart.

• The other serious and disturbing element in second-hand houses, apart from settlement or subsidence, is dry rot.

• It was evident that certain repairs of a fairly large order would be required, dealing mostly with dry rot and that sort of thing.

• That is for eradicating dry rot, repairing the roof, the stonework, and so forth.

• The purchaser offered £71,500, later reducing that to £60,000 because the property was already showing signs of damp and dry rot, having been unoccupied for nine months.

• One property is riddled with dry rot and the front bay has already collapsed.

• The dry rot must be eradicated immediately to prevent it growing through the building and affecting other flats and possibly neighbouring properties.

• It is a well-known fact that the spores of dry rot spread through the air and contaminate other healthy dwellings.

• I have dreamed up the roof of a memorial hall in a hamlet which is suddenly dissolved with dry rot.

• The dry rot is no worse this week than it was last week, but it ought to have been treated last week.

• His propeller had the dry rot, and he lost his life.

• There is no claim for dry rot repairs but treatment is being carried out at a probable cost of about £15,000.

• I know that dry rot is both inconvenient and expensive.

• The firm also found that the city council report spoke about areas of wet rot or dry rot.