Woodworm Treatment

To determine the best course of treatment, we offer a free woodworm survey of your property. During this survey we will assess various factors, including the type of woodworm, if it is active or not, the extent of the infestation and any damage caused by it.

After we have conducted our survey, we will provide you with our quotation for our recommended course of treatment (if treatment is required). All timber treatment works that we carry out include our Woodworm Services 20-year guarantee.

Types of Treatment

We use permethrin insecticide or boron-based woodworm treatments, with application methods including coarse spray, brush, injection or dip.

Eco Treatment

Boron treatment for woodworm - a unique boron-based borax powder concentrate, ready to dissolve in water, designed to treat timber by brush, coarse spray or dipping. It avoids the hazards of many other liquid insecticides by using only water as a carrier.

Treating Common Furniture Beetle (Anobium punctatum)

Treatment for the common furniture beetle is with a brush or by coarse spray application of a woodworm treatment, normally permethrin-based, onto all of the timbers affected by the woodworm. It is highly recommended that the timbers in the immediate vicinity also have woodworm treatment applied as a precaution to prevent against future woodworm outbreaks.

Treating Deathwatch Beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum)

The deathwatch beetle attacks mainly hardwoods like elm and oak. The beetle mainly attacks timber with active decay and rot, meaning that infestations may be more concentrated within the interior of large beams built into damp walls. As the infestation is deep within the timber the damage/infestation may be invisible apart from a few emergence holes.

As deathwatch beetle infestations are so deep within a timber it is essential to treat by injection as well as a surface coarse spray treatment. This can either be by injecting the woodworm treatment spray into the exit/flight holes, as this naturally results in the woodworm treatment migrating into the most susceptible areas of the wood. Alternatively, the timber must be drilled to provide access to the danger zone then injected with either a gel or paste woodworm treatment.

Treating House Longhorn Beetle (Hylotrupes bajulus)

The house longhorn beetle is the most damaging wood-boring insect/beetle, it attacks the sapwood of dry softwood, and can grow up to 30mm in length, leaving an exit hole of up to 10mm in diameter. The larvae from this beetle can seriously damage timber within their growth period, even entirely destroying the sapwood timber. The treatment process for the house longhorn beetle is the same as for the deathwatch beetle, but all timber within the building should be treated and inspected for their structural integrity.