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Hi
Does anyone have any experience or knowledge on dry rot? I live in Vermont. Am a little concerned that it could destroy my house, because I do have a little bit of rot on part of it.  I couldn't find much information on it. Just wondering mostly how common it is. It is very under control at the moment. But I have little cream or white mushrooms and small cracks with mycelium going with the grain of the logs. ( Is a log house).
It's only on a few logs because I didn't take the bark off of a few of them. Luckily now I have finished the roof so it will dry out. And I got the bark off finally.  Um, can anyone say for sure what kind of rot it is? I am praying normal wet rot. Just got kind of concerned when I read about dry rot, and don't want it to destroy my whole house.
Here is a picture of it if you wanna see I didn't have pictures saved so have to link to my Instagram.
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Hi Cristoph,
I'm sure someone with more experience than I will respond, but just to bump this a little I thought I would reply.

I hate the term "dry rot" because if it was dry, the fungus wouldn't be growing and rotting things. Getting rid of moisture is the number one way to discourage fungus, and it sounds like you have dealt with this. The treatment might be different if you are seeing this on the inside vs the outside of the wall. Perhaps once things dry, you could remove any soft wood and spray with a natural anti-fungal just to be sure?
 
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Thanks for the response Matt.
Yeah it is drying out now and hopefully will stop rotting. I did put some wood hardener on it.
 
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