PbO2

Fallen out badly with someone ?

AWEM

yup

a little cahp called Serpula, Mr Serpula Lacrymans. Git, he tried to wreck my house.

PbO2 can be got from messrs:-

Oops, Solignum only do crappy zinc and permethrin based products now, and you can't have the remains of my tin of the real stuff...

Mark Rand RTFM

Cuprinol 5-star, is that any good? or has it too been 'toned down'? Currently contains 'propiconazole and flurox', whatever they may be!

Tim

Dutton Dry-Dock Traditional & Modern canal craft repairs Vintage diesel engine service

Nasty git ;- Fruit body 5-50cm across, usually resupinate but occasionally forming brackets on vertical substrates, arising from whitish, pinkish, lilac or grey mycelium. Flesh 2-12mm thick, greyish-white, spongy-fleshy. Pores rusty-yellow becoming more yellowish towards the thick, white sterile margin. Spores rust-brown, elliptic, 8-10 x 5-6um. The fungus gives off a distinctive damp rotten smell. Habitat on worked wood in buildings although the fruit bodies of the fungus may also appear on non-organic substrates such as plaster or brickwork. Season all year. Common. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.

only known certian cure - removal by open surgery .........

Guess it was a monstrosity.

Got my propane torch

got my timber

Just hope it aint killed the staircase.