SFW Construction Specializes In Newport Dry Rot Repair Throughout Lincoln County, Oregon
SFW Construction is Newport, Oregon’s Premier Dry rot repair contractor. SFW Construction has been your local experts for conducting targeted dry rot repairs, resulting in a cost-effective, like-new look, since 2005. The Newport area and the Oregon coast, in general, will get pounded by the rainy and windy weather. If you have any openings in your home’s water barrier, moisture can enter your home and cause severe damage to the structure of your home. When moisture invades your home, it can cause dry rot, brown rot, or wood rot to form. Dry rot causing moisture most often enters your home through construction defects, failed siding, window or door leaks, or failed exterior paint. If dry rot is present in your Newport beach house, it moves fast, considerably damaging large portions of your home’s structural components.
What Is Dry Rot?
Dry rot is a fungus that feeds off wood structures. Dry rot can cause affected material to become brittle and weak. If the construction materials of your Newport home has been exposed to the fast-acting dry rot fungi, the dry rot can spread quickly with minimal moisture present. Making observing dry rot early very difficult before the wood decay starts to spread.
Where Can Dry Rot Be Found?
Dry rot often starts where moisture is likely to be present, but can spread to affect posts, beams, deck framing, kitchen and bathroom floors and walls, deck boards, eaves, roofs, near damaged gutters, sill plates, foundations, window and door framing, siding, cripple walls and crawl spaces, among others. Dry rot can enter your home through your home’s interior and exterior and infest any wood structure. Seeing the early signs of wood decay is not always easy; here are some of the common signs and symptoms to look out for.
What Are The Signs Of Dry Rot?
Wood beginning to crack, darken, or shrink.
You can easily penetrate wood surfaces with a screwdriver.
A musty odor is present.
Observing a mushroom-like skin, or mold on wood surfaces.
“Springy” or creaking floor boards.
As construction contractors, we handle the repairs–like siding, dry rot, or anything else construction-related. Once we are done if you have any painting projects SFW Painting can handle your needs.
What Should I Do If I Notice One, Or Many, Of These Dry Rot Symptoms?
If you think your home may have some of these symptoms, it’s essential that you call and have the damage inspected by a dry rot expert. Ignoring the signs will cause the dry rot to spread throughout your Newport home, cause severe damage, and a costly repair. Your first call should be to SFW Construction, your local dry rot repair experts. SFW Construction is a high-skilled general contractor specializing in the repair and mitigation of dry rot and water damage.
About Us
At SFW Construction, we take an honest approach to dry rot repair, keeping the customer’s needs and pocketbook in mind. SFW Construction can often perform a small targeted dry rot repair on your Newport area home, removing the rotted material and preventing the rot from returning. After SFW Construction has finished the repairs, we also have a full-service paint department, SFW Painting, who can help you complete any of your painting needs.
Newport Dry Rot Blog
Wood Decay
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Wood decay can be a big problem for both new and experienced homeowners but particularly plagues those of us who live in the often damp Pacific Northwest. Despite its colloquial name, dry rot is most often caused by communities of fungi growing in wood with high moisture saturation.
Our Siding And Dry Rot Process
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We get a lot of questions on how our crews operate for siding repairs and wood rot repairs. The following infographic (print and share with family and neighbors) details how we do it.
Structural Dry Rot Repair
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SFW Construction excels at structural dry rot and framing repair. Our company is widely recognized as THE company to handle dry rot. We believe we have set the standard in our transparent approach to these difficult and discovery-based projects.