Why can you see woodworm emerging after you have had woodworm treatment?
The woodworm life cycle is between 2-5 years.
When a chemical woodworm treatment is applied to the floorboards, joists or any other affected timbers, it penetrates the timber up to a point, but does not go all the way through.
If for example woodworm larvae were living at the very centre of a joist, then the treatment may not get them.
However, when these go on to emerge as the beetles, the surface chemical treatment will kill them then.
Any new woodworm trying to lay eggs in your timbers will be unable to do so, due to the hostile environment created by the chemical treatment.
The chemical woodworm treatment essentially breaks their life cycle.
If you have had your woodworm treated correctly, the chemical treatment would have successfully:
• Killed existing woodworm beetles emerging from the timbers
• Killed woodworm larvae
• Made the timber an uninhabitable environment for the woodworm to lay new eggs
We advise all of our clients of this woodworm cycle and provide a 20 year guarantee on our woodworm treatments.
This is to give our clients peace of mind, so that we can reinspect and confirm if they are worried.
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