DEEP
KILL TREATMENTS IN WOOD WITH BORON BASED LIQUIDS, GELS AND PASTE
Summary
Treating
Dry Rot with Boron based Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate in several
different forms. Treatment is enhanced when we can deliver the active
Boron ingredient in the most effective concentration to not only the
timber surfaces but also the deep interior part of the wood. Any part
of a timber is vulnerable if the moisture content is sufficient to support
Dry Rot, so in some cases surface treatment alone is not sufficient
to stop an attack of Dry Rot, whereas Wet Rots cannot travel into low
moisture content wood and are therefore less of a hazard to buildings.
Why Deepkill
Treat Wood
Because Dry
Rot can spread over and through wood, even when the moisture content
is very low. Treatment of any piece of wood over which strands, mycellium
or a fruiting body of dry rot is growing must continue at least 300mm
in all directions, to avoid missing any of the tiny micro strands that
precede the main visible parts of the fungal growth inside the timber.
These micro strands are not visible to the naked eye.
Usage
rate - use our chart of hole spacing for various timber sizes as
a guide, or call us on 01626 872886 and we'll calculate your exact requirements.
(Hole Spacing Guide - click
here to download)
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IS
IT REALLY DRY ROT - first identify
the rot type in order to decide the extent of the treatment
1. Strands
- fibres like small plant roots, dirty off-white to silver grey in colour.
2. Sheets
- Mycelium - dirty off-white skin, can be tinged with yellow, occasionally
found as billowing cushions of off-white growths.
3. Mushroom
- Fruiting Body - this produces the Spores - rust red in colour, can
spread around onto other surfaces, usually found as a flat body with
red spores in the centre and an off-white rim.
Dry Rot -
large splits, curvature and strands.
Mycellium
on wood - NOT brilliant white.
Dry
Rot Sporophore - flat & red rust coloured.
NOT
DRY ROT - THEN IT IS ONE OF MANY WET ROTS
- most commonly misidentified features
1. Coniophora
puteana - the 'cellar fungus' - dark brown to black strands in fern-like
patterns, olive brown fruiting body (rare).
2. Fibroporia
vaillantii - white strands in fern like growths, white fruiting body
with pores.
3. Asterostroma
- brilliant white, fine strands, fruiting body has no pores, mycelium
has tiny star structures, visible only under magnification.
Wet rot -
brown to black strands of Coniophora.
Brilliant
White strands and Mycellium of Fibroporia
Brilliant
White strands and Mycellium of Fibroporia - both Wet Rots - NOT Dry
Rot.
IDENTIFIED
DRY ROT - Boron treatment
The best,
safest and most pleasant treatment to apply is Boracol 10 , a water based 'biostat' that has
no adverse effect on non-wood boring insects or mammals (like Bats).
This Boron Products is applied as two or more coats by brush or spray
and soaks quickly into the timber. It is permanent and, unlike its main
rivals, it has no vapour and no smell. It can only affect wood rotting
fungi and wood boring insects, so Bats (a protected species) are not
affected - their main food, the house fly, does not eat wood and so
it never contains any preservative. Heavily infested areas of timber,
and damp patches, should also have an application of
Boron Ultra Gel, to
reduce the risks of future rot and provide extra active ingredient.
Permanently or seasonally damp wood needs injection with Boron
Ultra Paste and the insertion of Boron
Ultra Rods (for example, window frames, garden posts, door frames).
Usage
rate - use our chart of hole spacing for various timber sizes as
a guide, or call us on 01626 872886 and we'll calculate your exact requirements.
(Hole Spacing Guide - click here to
download)
ADDITIONAL
PRECAUTIONS TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF DRY ROT - Dry Rot Paint around
and over timbers
The photograph
below shows untreated panels, on the left and treated panels on the
right. The treated panels (in two columns) have been painted with Dry
Rot Paint and show no signs of growth!
So, you can
further reduce the risk of future Dry Rot attack by using this 'No Go
Zone' special emulsion paint. It can be applied behind skirting boards,
in window frame reveals and in joist sockets. The paint, which has been
tested by BRE (Building Research Establishment - Government backed test
Authority) prevents Dry Rot from passing across treated areas. No other
treatment can currently offer this feature.
If you need
any help with any type of Wood Treatment or identification of wood rotting
fungi Property Repair Systems staff will be pleased to give you completely
free, no obligation advice on 01626 872886 .
RING US
FOR HELP TO IDENTIFY YOUR FUNGUS - 01626 872886 - Fungus Help Line
DEEP
KILL BORON GEL, PASTE, RODS - treatment to kill and prevent insect and
Dry Rot attack
1. ECOBOR
ULTRA GEL - Surface Applied Gel for Dry Rot
An active
clear Boron based Gel ideal for end grain and bearing area treatment
of beams and joists. Apply to surfaces that have been touched by or
affected by Dry Rot.
Also useful for medium to
heavy active infestations of insect attack and treatment of new timbers
for use in vulnerable areas (e.g. skirting boards).
Boron Ultra
Gel in three sizes - 500cc, 1 litre and 2 litres - no odour, easy to
brush.
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2.
BORON ULTRA PASTE - Deep Kill Injected Treatment for
Dry Rot - no odour
A unique
Boron based paste using a special blend of technical grade glycols as
carriers. It can be injected into timber, with the advantage of supplying
a highly concentrated mobile preservative which will spread even at
low moisture content levels. Simple to apply with a standard skeleton
gun; more effective to use because of the higher available level of
active content, which allows the use of smaller (8mm, rather than 10mm)
and/or fewer drill holes.
Boron Paste
in a mastic tube, with an extension adapter nozzle. For injection into
wood to kill dry rot and insects.
Also available
- Timber Paste for dry wood - ideal for fully indoor structural
timbers that are suffering from Death Watch Beetle, House Longhorn Beetle
or Termites.
Usage
rate - use our chart of hole spacing for various timber sizes as
a guide, or call us on 01626 872886 and we'll calculate your exact requirements.
(Hole Spacing Guide - click
here to download)
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here to see Prices or Buy
3.
BORON RODS - Solid Rods for embedding Boron inside holes in wood - prevents
and kills Dry Rot deep inside wood
These solid
rods of Boron based compound are used to protect timbers which are constantly
or occasionally damp: external joinery, wall plates, embedded beam ends,
posts etc. They can also be used in conjunction with BORON ULTRA Paste,
to act as a long term reservoir (Standard Sizes - 8mm x 24mm and 8mm
x 65mm).
Packets of
Boron Rods as solid fused sticks of preservative. Example of insertion
in a frame.
Usage
rate - use our chart of hole spacing for various timber sizes as
a guide, or call us on 01626 872886 and we'll calculate your exact requirements.
(Hole Spacing Guide -
click here to download)
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here to see Prices or Buy
4.
DRY ROT PAINT - Special Emulsion Coating - low odour (non Boron)
A specially
treated preservative biocidal emulsion paint designed to prevent the
surface spread of Dry rot. Ideal for timber and masonry in the treatment
of adjacent areas, to provide visual lasting evidence of treatment.
It prevents surface spread of strands and mycelium.
Some Site
photographs showing how Dry Rot can spread - often in hidden places
below or between floors.
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Benefits
of deepkill Borax Boron based for Dry Rot treatments
* Boron has
a world-wide safety reputation - 5% products still require no hazard
warnings
* Borates
have ultra low toxicity - about the same as Table Salt
* Boron based
preservative kills only wood rots and wood boring insects - not spiders,
birds or bats
* Boron has
no odour - leaves no smell
* Borax does
not evaporate - stays in the wood
* Borons
are non-flammable - they actually act as Flame Retardants
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Technical
Support for Dry Rot
All PRS products
are supported with Method Statements, Specifications and comprehensive
technical support. Please ask for our technical department. Contact
us aT: 01626 872886 or help@propertyrepairsystems.co.uk
Certificate
of Product Guarantee for
Dry Rot
We offer
a printed Certificate of Product Guarantee for individual properties,
should you require one for your Bank, Building Society or house purchaser.
Call us for
details on 01626 872886 .
Safety
for
Dry Rot Treatment
See our Dry
Rot Technical Information page for Product Safety Information. The Boron
based product, Boracol 10 , used for Dry Rot Treatment diluted in
water at 5% or 10% BAE is fully Licensed by the HSE and the 5% version
is not required to carry any hazard warning labels.
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to go to Dry Rot Technical Information.
