Can you rule out dry rot from visual and historical observation?

indielad

I am selling my house and my buyer's surveyor want a damp and timber report as she says there is a potential for dry rot.

She probably thinks this because I damaged a couple of floorboards by dropping wet plaster on my laminate flooring, which damaged the surface of them 3 years ago. Though the integrity of these 2 floorboards are not good. There is no signs of fungus either on top or around the floorboards, neither on the skirting boards or on the surface or below. I can't observe below the floorboards, but none of the surrounding floorboards have shown any signs of damage in 3 years. I'm a bit worried the damp surveyors are going to want to rip up floorboards just to check out an unlikely situation, can they rule it out just just the survey?

Thank you

anselld

These surveys are generally non-invasive.  They certainly will not lift laminate flooring.

Having said that, there are a significant proportion of "damp surveyors" who are actually sales people with a vested interest in selling questionable and expensive treatments.  It will be up to the buyer who they send, but try to encourage them to send someone which is not linked to a treatment Company and which they will therefore need to pay for.  

Chief_of_Staffy

Surveys don't rule out anything, and surveyors won't pull up your floorboards. It's up to you whether you allow an invasive examination by a specialist, though, should such an entity exist.