DRY/ WET Rot and Timber TREATMENT
Woodworm
Given the right conditions, wood boring beetles can infest a wide variety of timbers. These can include structural building timbers, skirting boards, architraves and general joinery. Left unchecked, infestations can cause severe structural weakening and irreparable damage.
WHAT CAUSES
WOODWORM?
Adult beetles emerge from timber in the spring and summer. Very soon after mating, the female beetle lays around 30 eggs into the cracks and crevices of the timber she’s just left. A month or so later the eggs hatch and the larvae begin to burrow into the timber. They remain here for two to four years, slowly eating and burrowing beneath the surface of the wood. Eventually, the mature lava creates a pupation chamber just beneath the surface of the wood. Following pupation, the adult beetle cuts a hole into the timber’s surface and emerges to start the process all over again. Any new holes and dust (frass) falling from them that appears, often indicates the presence of an active woodworm infestation.
HOW WE TREAT
WOODWORM?
One of our specialist surveyors will carryout a timber survey for you, examine the infested timber, type of woodworm attack and the risks or hazards associated with any work.
If treatment is found to be necessary, it is cost effective and always successful.
Guardian generally use water based insecticides, chemicals are usually applied using low pressure spraying. The timber must be cleaned – to remove any excessive dust – if preservatives need to be applied.
For an accurate diagnosis, please feel free to Contact us to arrange a survey. As a Property Care Association (PCA) Member, our fully qualified surveyors will give you honest and impartial advice about woodworm.
WHAT NEXT...
HOW TO ERADICATE WOODWORM
For an accurate diagnosis, you can arrange a survey with one of our Property Care Association (PCA) Member Surveyors – who is also a Certificated Surveyor in Remedial Treatments (CSRT).
With over 40 years’ experience, our qualified Technicians and Surveyors will help you to eradicate any rot for good.
Feel free to Contact us today for honest, impartial advice about woodworm.
Workmanship Guarantee
Our workmanship is covered by the 10-year Guardian Watertight Guarantee.
Guarantee Protection Insurance is also available for an additional premium and also comes via our membership of the Property Care Association (PCA) – if we ever decide to cease business and something goes wrong with our work (we hope that never happens) another PCA member will rectify the problem.
If you would like to meet up to discuss how we could work together, please contact us.
