Discolored Plywood In Attic

Hello i am close to buying a house but my inspector looked into the attic and says that there is lots of mold up there.

Discolored plywood in attic.

I m aware of the cause poorly vented bathroom fans and not well sealed fan fixtures lights wires etc. Attic stains may fall into this category depending on the severity. Is that rotted wood. Black mold in attics.

In a reasonably well insulated and vented attic stains may appear due to condensation. There are a couple of boards in the pictures that i circled that are a grayish color. The black attic mold shown here confirms that this attic had a serious venting and moisture problem including moisture from sources lower in the building. This happens due to trapped damp air often in the late fall or.

If your attic joists won t bear the weight necessary to finish out a living space but the engineer cleared them to support floor decking for light storage you can install inch plywood or. I thought this was a ventilation problem someone came to look at the wood and said it was fine. I have surface mold on the sheathing in my 1982 vintage 12 6 pitched attic. Almost all attics in homes more than 25 years old will have some moisture stains on either the sheathing or the framing.

When moisture droplets collect on wood surfaces in an attic a discoloration often occurs. The wood has dark stains around where the old bathroom vent was pointing to in the attic the ventilation had been fixed to point outside at the time of changing the roof. But then i read that this could be mold. So i m confused the wood in the attic has black streaks discolorations.

Mold growing on the sheathing in your attic is a serious problem that shouldn t be ignored. The moisture from a steamy shower is routed through the fan then the attic and finally outside the house. 905 290 9101 british columbia lab. Does mold on attic sheathing have to be removed.

However if the ducting above isn t installed properly or broken the moisture just ends up as water vapor in your attic. I attached three pictures. The decision regarding the thickness of plywood to use for the subfloor in the attic has a lot to do with how you intend to use the attic and it also depends on the spacing of the ceiling joists.