It seems that colonial homeowners were less troubled with wood rot than we are today.
No important diseases of hickory other than a number of wood rots have been reported.
Little is known of the houses' structure as wood rots and decomposes.
Failure due to wood rot and splintering when hit by bullets or shrapnel were eliminated.
This can result in ruined insulation and wood rot.
Mahogany also resists wood rot, making it attractive in boat construction.
Bricks were coming loose and wood rot was everywhere.
The original Plantation house, suffering from termites and wood rot, was demolished in the 1990s.
A few years later, the company started getting customer complaints about premature wood rot.
As such they become pests in the role of destructive agents of wood rot.