With extensive experience in construction and project management, Chris Childers serves as the president and owner of Allstate Renovations, Inc. in Overland Park, Kansas. Allstate Renovations specializes in providing project management services for multi-family housing renovations. Chris Childers leads a team that handles various tasks, from small repairs to comprehensive renovations, covering areas such as dry rot repairs.

Dry rot in homes is a fungal infestation that affects timber and wood-based components of home structures, such as roof timbers, timber frames, window frames, floorboards, and basements. Early signs of dry rot are the appearance of cotton wool-like fungal growth on wood, an earthy or musky smell of wood, and shrunken or hollow wood.

As the fungus feeds on the wood over time, the building material loses its structural integrity and may become too weak to serve its purpose. Mild dry rot infestations are treatable, while severe dry rot problems may require the complete replacement of affected timbers.

The spores that germinate to form dry rot are abundant in the air, which means these spores are virtually everywhere. Under normal conditions, in-air dry rot spores are harmless to wood and timber components at home. These spores only germinate on high-moisture timbers. According to YesHomeBuyers.com, timber or wood's acceptable moisture content range is between 20 and 30 percent. If timber is soaked in water beyond this level, the risk of dry rot becomes high.