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I enjoy the help this forum gives so I thought I'd share my experience with woodworm (which is now, unfortunetely, considerable). Last year I discovered wood worm in my garage flat roof when having it repaired, looked for it in the loft andd found it in some timbers used by the plummer to...

I enjoy the help this forum gives so I thought I'd share my experience with woodworm (which is now, unfortunetely, considerable). Last year I discovered wood worm in my garage flat roof when having it repaired, looked for it in the loft andd found it in some timbers used by the plummer to...

Floor baords rempoved for spraying underneath

Floor boards removeed to alloww sraying access underneath

I pulled 2 crumbly boards up, not thee tell tale fine 'saw dust' which ois wood worm poo

wood worm don't eat vinyl but kept on munching below

no visible signs on the surface yet the wood is riddled

Wood worm and crumbly floor, preparation for treatment of the whole house

Following on from my post 'the beetles ate my kitchen floor', I was hoping they had not eated the joists, I'm an optimist. The beetles and rot had eaten the joists, all I have now in the kitchen of the house we bought in December is a mud floor. See pics, I was optimistic in replaing the...

Thanks John, but why not chip board, floor grade is supposed to be OK for damp kitchens? thanks Keith

Yep we knew the house had wood worm when we bought it just before christmas but not that much. Top tip, if you see some worm holes in floor boards assume the worst. The best way to check the the floor boards for worm damage is to stab the boards at the tongued and grooved joint with a screw...