09-06-2011, 05:04 PM
I can only second David and Mark's comments but will add mine nonetheless and my own recent experience.
I have treated the cabinet of my Bush TV63 with all the popular available chemicals five times and I still had beetles hatch out this year. Treating is a complete waste of time and money.
Woodworm beetles hatch out during spring-early summer and fly about EVERYWHERE all over summer, however as Mark says they are not interested in dry timber. They won't be interested in radio cabinets in your centrally heated home when there's trees in forests and damp timber in sawmills. The woodworm life cycle can be up to five years or so, my TV63 has no doubt spent most of it's recent life in a damp shed, hence the woodworm. It's currently in my bedroom and I can see no danger of anything else in the house being attacked as everything else here is dry timber. If your precious radio cabinets in your house were to be attacked they would get eggs laid in them every summer, there are millions of woodworm beetles flying around as we speak.
I am always reminded of my great grandma's dressing table. It was so infested it crumbled as you touched it and had been stored in the damp back room of her council house for about 50 years, right by the window. Nothing else in the dryer part of the room had ever been infected. Woodworm are very fussy creatures indeed.
Try chemical treatment if you want, but remember flight holes are where woodworm have been in the past and there's no guarantee that where you treat now (into old flight holes) will mean the chemicals will soak down enough into the timber. From my experience with the TV63 I'm convinced they don't. The most effective way is squishing them when you see them hatch, or if you're making something from a raw log with woodworm make sure when you come across the larvae you do so with a nice sharp chisel!
I have treated the cabinet of my Bush TV63 with all the popular available chemicals five times and I still had beetles hatch out this year. Treating is a complete waste of time and money.
Woodworm beetles hatch out during spring-early summer and fly about EVERYWHERE all over summer, however as Mark says they are not interested in dry timber. They won't be interested in radio cabinets in your centrally heated home when there's trees in forests and damp timber in sawmills. The woodworm life cycle can be up to five years or so, my TV63 has no doubt spent most of it's recent life in a damp shed, hence the woodworm. It's currently in my bedroom and I can see no danger of anything else in the house being attacked as everything else here is dry timber. If your precious radio cabinets in your house were to be attacked they would get eggs laid in them every summer, there are millions of woodworm beetles flying around as we speak.
I am always reminded of my great grandma's dressing table. It was so infested it crumbled as you touched it and had been stored in the damp back room of her council house for about 50 years, right by the window. Nothing else in the dryer part of the room had ever been infected. Woodworm are very fussy creatures indeed.
Try chemical treatment if you want, but remember flight holes are where woodworm have been in the past and there's no guarantee that where you treat now (into old flight holes) will mean the chemicals will soak down enough into the timber. From my experience with the TV63 I'm convinced they don't. The most effective way is squishing them when you see them hatch, or if you're making something from a raw log with woodworm make sure when you come across the larvae you do so with a nice sharp chisel!
