Originally Posted By: rmoore This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Erby? I did a search for stalactiform fungus (fungi) and couldn?t find anything even close to that. That hanging stuff looks more like the result of muddy, or mineral laden water dripping down the beams over time, but then you would expect the concrete blocks to be stained as well.
Which leaves us with an alien life form. Yeah, that must be it!
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Originally Posted By: wpedley This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Erby,
I would have to say that something had to leak
through the floor from above...the question is what?
I've seen some pretty nasty sh&# but this is baaaaaaad.  
Originally Posted By: ecrofutt This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Well, as no one here can answer what it is, I hope to contact the people the seller is hiring to come in and deal with it to see if they get it identified.
Originally Posted By: Steve Costa This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
It does look like something was spilled from above, what about a bucket of some type of adhesive, and in an effort to get it off the subfloor it may have been thinned causing it to drip? I dunno.
"The fungus you show there is certainly a decay fungus and although I cannot be certain as to the exact identity, it appears to me to be one of the brown-rot fungi that can cause substantial damage to structural wood. There are several genera that I suspect but I would only be guessing at this point. The fungus and thus the decay appears to be quite well established and could present an dangerous situation with regard to reduced strength of the floor. "
Has an interesting web site with some good pictures to!
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