Vulnerable area, damp timber, mycelial strands.	Suspect timberwork drying out.

Comments
Client: “The sensors have allowed me to retain at risk areas and given me peace of mind over future potential problems”

Builder: “Effective monitoring has saved the client substantial building works and given us the opportunity to carry out more sympathetic repairs, this is what the industry has been waiting for!”

Surveyor: “The installation was easy and I feel as a profession we are now giving best advice”

Other examples
1 A surveyor carrying out a routine inspection notices a damp stained area that he thinks might give rise to dry rot. He tells his client he wants to check it out and does so by fitting sensors. He gets either a yes there is dry rot or no there is not.

2 A surveyor finds dry rot in a roof void but can’t see how far it has spread into the room below. He can fit sensors and will get a yes there is dry rot until the point where the dry rot stops.

3 An area previously treated for dry rot becomes wet as a result of a flood from a pipe or similar. As the area dries out the sensors can be checked to ensure that there is no dry rot re-development . Once dry there is no longer a risk, the sensors can be removed.

4 An outbreak of dry rot has spread behind some ornamental paneling in a historic building. To treat the outbreak by conventional methods would involve damage to the paneling. Sensors can be fitted within and around the affected area and the activity of the fungus monitored. Environmental control principles can then be applied and the sensors used to monitor the dying back of the fungus as the control takes effect. The sensors may then be used as a regular or even permanent way of monitoring the area, all without damage to the historical artifacts.