SKETCH OF DRY ROT FUNGUS
On basement floor joist in house, at Greenwich, near LondonFeb 1875.
END OF JOIST
Crumbled into fine red powder, with slight rubbing.
TOP OF JOIST.
Portion of fungus near the edge was torn away on removal of floor boards,the undersides of which were covered with fungus, as well as the sides of nearest joist 10ins. distant.
Portion of fungus near the edge was torn away on removal of joist.Fungus covered top and sides of sleeper joist.
Colours of fungi. White, yellow, green, purple, and rusty red.
A TREATISE
ON THE
ORIGIN, PROGRESS, PREVENTION, AND CURE
OF
DRY ROT IN TIMBER.
WITH REMARKS ON
THE MEANS OF PRESERVING WOOD FROM DESTRUCTION BY
SEA WORMS, BEETLES, ANTS, ETC.
BY
THOMAS ALLEN BRITTON,
LATE SURVEYOR TO THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS, AND SILVER MEDALLIST OF THE
ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS IN 1854, 1856, AND 1870.
LONDON:
E. & F. N. SPON, 48, CHARING CROSS.
NEW YORK: 446, BROOME STREET.
1875.
THIS VOLUME
IS
Dedicated to
GEORGE VULLIAMY, Esq.,
VICE-PRESIDENT
OF THE
ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS;
AND
ARCHITECT
OF
THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS;
AS A SLIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF HIS
COUNSEL, SYMPATHY, AND FRIENDSHIP,
DURING MANY YEARS.
PREFACE.
In preparing this treatise on Dry Rot, the author hasendeavoured to place in as condensed a form as was consistentwith the nature of the subject, the knowledge andinformation dispersed through a numerous collection ofwriters who have treated thereon; he has also availedhimself of the assistance of professional friends, builders,timber-merchants, foremen and carpenters; and, by sodoing, has been enabled to record several instances of theprogress and cure of dry rot. He has consulted manyvaluable papers published during the last thirty years, inthe various professional journals in England, America,France, and Germany, upon this important subject, andhas also obtained much useful information from the worksof Evelyn, Nicholson, Tredgold by Hu