Description
In an age when the value of man's natural resources is being increasingly recognised, the mainstay of building construction the world over-timber continues to be used, often unprotected from the ravages of wood-rotting fungi and wood-boring insects.
The trees from which timber is obtained are a renewable resource; with careful management we shall never exhaust our supplies. Nevertheless, the rising cost of timber and, in the context of Great Britain, its contribution to the import bill means that we should be aware of: (a) the circumstances under which decay can occur; (b) the characteristics of the fungi involved; (c) the faults in design, construction and maintenance which can lead to conditions favourable to decay; (d) the diagnostic features of decay, and (e) the means available to control it.
This book aims to give the reader - an anxious householder, a student or a professional - the facts about the decay of timber in buildings.
ISBN:0906564026
