How To Use Dry rot In A Sentence

  • Their rambling villa, once a model of gracious elegance, was now a paradise of dry rot, with its skeletal verandah, rickety walls and warped weatherboards.
  • At least we were out of the mud and I had started to feel alive enough to tackle a dry roti.
  • There was other, direct, evidence of dry rot in the timbers of the building.
  • The house was riddled with dry rot.
  • He knew that the corner section of the porch floor sagged wit1i dry rot.
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  • This led to problems of dry rot which, in turn, were beginning to affect the structural integrity of the floor joists and roof trusses of the building.
  • The trees were in bad shape from dry rot.
  • To locate dry rot, tap questionable areas with a hammer and listen for a hollow, dead sound.
  • Old houses may be unsafe because of treatment for timber and dry rot. M. E. Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome - How To Live With It
  • She claimed for dry rot in a house in Southampton on expenses. Times, Sunday Times
  • The dry rot has now entered the wainscot surrounding the lower part of the ground floor walls.
  • We clambered over the stile and onto a well-worn path fringed by dry rotting undergrowth.
  • Their rambling villa once a model of gracious elegance was now a paradise of dry rot and borer, with its skeletal verandah, rickety walls and warped weatherboards.
  • The trees were in bad shape from dry rot.
  • Attempting to boost immigration without addressing the root problems is like fixing a home with dry rot in the foundations by tacking on more weatherboards.
  • dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
  • He also saw live dry rot in the form of mycelium and hyphae strands in the core of the brickwork.
  • The teenage pyromaniacs experimented with different fuel sources, different sorts of fats (some very smelly) and oils, moss, dry rotten wood and home baked tinder using a cotton handkerchief.
  • The inadequacy of the insulation may have caused condensation, giving rise to a risk of further outbreaks of dry rot.
  • Dry rot destroyed what would have been a tourist honeypot.
  • Mr. Wilde was unable to say what was the nature of the rot in the wood spliced on to the original part of the bressummer, but he considered the stain on the original part of the beam to be evidence of dry rot.
  • Old houses may be unsafe because of treatment for timber and dry rot. M. E. Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome - How To Live With It

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