I'm cleaning up things and organizing what to keep and what to donate as I settle my Mom's estate. Tonight I was finally tackling the garage, where she stored her antiques and craft items until she got around to cleaning, restoring, etc. I have found quite a few piles of what sure looks like powder post beetle barf.
The garage is about 20 years old. Stick frame construction, then horizontal nailers were put on to allow installation of board and batten siding. Siding is rough sawn poplar as are the battens, and are well painted. The inside is raw wood. Because of snake intrusion via warped battens, Mom had the inside sealed with some 1-1/2 x 1/2 poplar strips to help keep out those of a scaley persuasion. Spot checking shows that most of the beetle holes are in these interior strips.
I will do some more research tonight, but I figured if anyone out there had a solution it would be on this group. I had planned to fog the garage this weekend, although that probably will not be much help with the PPB problem. Any suggestions? The garage is actually mostly empty (at least compared to my garashop). I will do some heavy inspecting in the daylight of the building and contents. Just hoping for some (relatively) easy solutions to this problem, but think it will actually involve many applications of a nasty insecticide.
Thanks for any input.
Regards, Roy