How To Treat Woodworm In Roof Timbers

Tiny little holes bored into the surface the dreaded woodworm signs.

How to treat woodworm in roof timbers.

The chemical used was sulfuryl fluoride a highly toxic gas that has no odour or colour. Don t forget to re paint and re varnish treated surfaces when they are dry. Furniture is also affected by woodworm especially old antique furniture. You approach your roof timber floorboard or beautiful piece of solid wood furniture.

It is difficult to detect woodworm infestation as the damage done by these creatures are inside the wood and the signs of damage done by them do not appear until for many years. How to treat woodworm. In 2002 a 39 year old man died during a routine fumigation to treat woodworm in the roof of a church in southern germany. Is this true and is it the best way to treat it.

Despite the name woodworm are not worms and are in fact the larval stage of several different species of woodworm beetle. You can easily treat common furniture beetles with a brush dip or spray application of a permethrin based woodworm treatment on all timbers affected by woodworm. All manner of wooden furniture. Making sure the hole is completely full from the bottom to the top using an extension tube see below.

Our woodworm treatment top tips 1 understand the woodworm life cycle. Unfortunately timber treatment contractors are not legally required to complete any training or certification. Treatment for furniture infestations is often by applying a surface treatment agent. Inspecting the roof void and basement for signs of beetle infestation.

Inspect under floorboards and all flooring timber. Professional treatment of woodworm all the work carried out for you with a 20 year guarantee normal woodworm treatment in houses consists of cleaning the timbers with a brush or vacuum and then spraying them once or twice using an insecticide either boron based or permethrin cypermethrin based. Painted wooden surfaces or ceilings. Our experience has taught us that many people mistake the signs of woodworm for something completely different so let s start at the beginning.

As a precaution you should also treat any close by timbers to protect against future outbreaks. You brace yourself and turn to the internet and type. I have a bit of woodworm in the roof timbers and i m going to get it professionally sprayed. Inject boron paste to treat woodworm infestation.

How to detect an active woodworm. The company say that the spray isn t a poison that will kill straight away but rather make the woodbeetle infertile.