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Dry Rot in Homes - The Identification, Treatment, Prevention & Repair of Dry Rot
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Rotten Luck - why dry rot in homes is best prevented

...wood. The Hyphae will feed on the sugars in the timber (cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin) and the fungus will produce enzymes that split the sugars, reversing the process that formed the wood and reducing the timber to a deconstructed state. Hyphae then continues to multiply.  3)   Mycelium is the name given to a m...