Woodworm Treatments

Wood worm is a generic name for the larvae of a group of beetles that complete their life cycle in timber. In nature they play a valuable role in recycling dead timber in the forest. However when they attack timbers that have been used to make furniture or buildings, they can become an unwanted and often destructive pest!

Ecoprotex use an envelope treatment, this consists of applying a curative woodworm treatment to all accessible surfaces of affected timber. Envelope treatments do not penetrate deep enough to kill the larvae with in the timber so no drilling unless a serve case where we use an injection chemical to eliminate unwanted larva. Instead they prevent new larvae from boring into the timber and prevent adult beetles from emerging form the timber. This breaks the life cycle of the woodworm and prevents new woodworm infesting the timber, meaning that the infestation will gradually die out.

and is tested to European standards against common furniture and house beetle.