Moisture performance and durability of wooden façades and decking during six years of outdoor exposure

Combined façade-decking elements were found to be useful for moisture content (MC) monitoring of wood in less severe exposure situations such as façades and freely ventilated decking, but not for correlation between moisture induced risk and fungal decay, since the latter occurred exclusively at water trapping contact faces. Nevertheless, the use of MC and temperature recordings combined with a dosimeter-based decay model might allow for an alternative time-saving way to estimate and classify wood durability.