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   CaseyR_ | Jun 07, 2001 07:15pm | #1

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   I am not particularly knowledgable about wood fungus. What information I have run accross tends to dwell on two types of wood fungus damage to homes: brown rot and white rot. Neither of these seems to be what you have. There is also a third type of rot which is considered to be less important and which is called "soft rot". Soft rot is described as being related to molds and the damage is typically shallow. Perhaps this is more like the organism that you are experiencing. Like brown or white rots, it requires moisture - either constant or alternate wet or dry.

   The following refer to brown or white rot, but may have some applicability to dealing with your infestation:
   http://www.usinspect.com/WoodDestroying/Fungus.asp
   http://www.jlconline.com/cgi-bin/webbbs/science/webbbs_config.pl?read=295
   http://www.ucfpl.ucop.edu/biodet/Poria_News/fungus.html

   Not related to the wood fungus problem, but I happened to run accross the following web site that gives some pictures of various damaged wood pieces to assist in identifying wood destroying pests. This may be of interest to some.
   identification photos of wood attacked by various pests

   If you can't control the problem, maybe you can replace your present fungus with an edible variety - lot of good sounding receipes on the Web which include various types of fungus...

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   Royal_Kennedy | Jun 08, 2001 04:18am | #2

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   I was working under an old porch and I saw a type of fungus that resembled a dogs fur growing and looked like it was spreading over the bottom of the fir flooring and joists .What is this and would Bleach kill it ???