Lifecote Woodworm Treatments

Lifecote Ltd has a range of timber treatment services, includes effective measures for the control of all commonly found wood boring beetles and can be used to control existing infestations and prevent further attack. When treatment is required, our product range includes water based, low odour preservatives which in many instances, require properties to be vacated for only short periods of time. This is normally 1 hours rather than 48 hours offered by other companies. The normal  method employed by Lifecote for woodworm infestation treatment of timber floors, involves exposing the timbers by lifting floorboards in a parallel manner to gain access to the sub floor void. The joists, wall plates, bearers, sub floor timbers and the underside of the floorboards are then treated using our insecticidal timber preservative. The solutions used in these treatment situations are specially formulated for deep penetration into the timbers in order to ensure eradication of existing woodworm infestations and future protection of the timbers. All Lifecote Ltd timber treatments are completed by our own skilled operation managers and most treatments are completed within one day. Lifecote Ltd offers a fully comprehensive 30 year treatment guarantee for all timber treatment undertaken

   There are three common types of woodworm in this country these are:

   The House Longhorn Beetle (Hylotropes bajulus)

The house Longhorn Beetle is principally found in roof timbers where it attacks the sapwood of exclusively softwood timbers often resulting in structural weakness. The holes     and tunnels of this beetle are significantly larger than the furniture beetle. Treatment for this beetle is highly specialist and Building Societies will insist on a specialist company if structural timber has been affected.

The Deathwatch beetle (Xestobium rufuvillosum)

The Deathwatch Beetle attacks large hardwood timbers such as Elm and Oak. The beetle, having started in hardwoods like these may move across to neighbouring softwoods in a kind of feeding frenzy! This beetle much prefers very damp conditions and even better when there is some kind of fungal decay or "wet rot" in the timbers. The beetle needs these conditions to develop rapidly. Treatment, as with the others, can be done in the form of a paste, spray on application or paint on preservative. It is strongly suggested that you call in a specialist such as Lifecote if you think you have Deathwatch Beetle.

The Furniture Beetle (Annobium punctatum) & Wharf borer

Furniture Beetle adults are very small and brownish in colour with an almost cylindrical body. The thorax is typically arched to form a hood, which almost conceals the head, and they have medium length unclubbed antennae. The larvae of different species of furniture beetle are very difficult to distinguish between; but, they are all soft, curved, have very small legs, and are known collectively as woodworm.

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