eradicating woodworm

Hi all,

I am just about to start work on converting a barn in the Scottish borders into a house.

The timbers are wekened significantly in some areas due to woodworm.

Can anyone give advice on treatment. I would like to do the work myself and thought about a backpack sprayer with a suitable "green" spray such as Boron.

Would this be the best thing to use?

Is spraying all the roof and new timbers nescessary?

Any alterantives advice or suppliers welcome.

Regards

Reply to
vivienne wykes
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Sir

My roofer painted the stuff on, as the spray can be hazzadous.

Woodworm is a fly egg, that hatches into a worm, that eats wood, then flys away, you don't catch woodworm from woodwoon, but from the fly. Once the worm has flown away, thats it. To tell if you have "active" woodworm you have to look for the dust. The old fashined way is to leave a chunk of nice softwood (Ash I think) this will attract the flies, as its less work to lay eggs in, and then you burn and replace every year.

Personnally I would paint (or spray) all the timbers, a few quid now is much less than a disater in 5 years time.

Rick

Reply to
Rick Dipper

By green do you mean environmentally friendly. If so boron most definitely isn't. But it is the best treatment for woodworm.

Reply to
G&M

The adult stage of woodworm is a beetle not a fly.

Reply to
Dave Liquorice
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To be pedantic, Ash is a hardwood. Did you mean soft as in soft texture ?

Dave

Reply to
Dave Stanton

I doubt it. Look here:

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N. Thornton

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