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Hi everybody. Went into the basement to grab something and found what looked like a small white fan-shaped growth on the framing near the foundation wall, plus that heavy earthy smell you get in an old shed. I scraped a bit off and the wood underneath crumbled between my fingers. Nobody in the house has been down there regularly in months. I know enough to know this isn’t good but not enough to know how urgent it is. Seattle, house is from the fifties. What’s the realistic next step?
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What you’re describing is active, and crumbling under a fingernail means the wood has already lost structural value. Urgency-wise: it isn’t an evacuate-the-house situation, but it will keep spreading as long as moisture is available, so this is a weeks problem, not a next-spring problem. Stop scraping at it, that just moves spores around. Get a proper assessment of extent, including whether it has reached anything load-bearing. Seattle Dry Rot Repair is GotRot’s core service, they’ve done over five hundred projects locally, and the inspection includes a written report. Also find out where the water is coming from, otherwise repairs are temporary.
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