Please help! I've been slowly renovating a lovely house over in Bulgaria. It's nearly finished but last time I visited I saw new signs of woodworm in one floor for the first time. There were three or for little piles of new dust.
I can be pretty certain that there hasn't been any before as the house is left empty for several months at a time sometimes and, although I have neighbours who come in once a month, run the taps, flush the loos and open all the doors and windows for an hour in summer or light the fire and get the heating and hot water system going in the winter, no one cleans and I'm sure I would have spotted the tell tale piles of wood dust before.
My question is, as it is so little, do I ignore it or is it best to get a treatment and brush some over the holes? Should I treat the whore floor as a precaution and if so will it soak through the varnish which is fairly old or would I need to sand the whole floor? It is in the final part of the house to be renovated so it would be feasible to sand it but I like the old look and would prefer to keep it if possible (though not at the expense of eventually losing the whore floor!)
Also when I spoke to the guy who does lots of the bigger building work for me he seemed to think treatments are not available in Bulgaria. Although I'm not sure this is the case Id be surprised if there are companies who would do a survey so I won't be able to find out what kind of woodworm it is. Sadly my Bulgarian doesn't yet stretch to finding definitive information on such a subject either!Can anyone recommend a good general treatment I can take with me when I drive over in the spring?
I can be pretty certain that there hasn't been any before as the house is left empty for several months at a time sometimes and, although I have neighbours who come in once a month, run the taps, flush the loos and open all the doors and windows for an hour in summer or light the fire and get the heating and hot water system going in the winter, no one cleans and I'm sure I would have spotted the tell tale piles of wood dust before.
My question is, as it is so little, do I ignore it or is it best to get a treatment and brush some over the holes? Should I treat the whore floor as a precaution and if so will it soak through the varnish which is fairly old or would I need to sand the whole floor? It is in the final part of the house to be renovated so it would be feasible to sand it but I like the old look and would prefer to keep it if possible (though not at the expense of eventually losing the whore floor!)
Also when I spoke to the guy who does lots of the bigger building work for me he seemed to think treatments are not available in Bulgaria. Although I'm not sure this is the case Id be surprised if there are companies who would do a survey so I won't be able to find out what kind of woodworm it is. Sadly my Bulgarian doesn't yet stretch to finding definitive information on such a subject either!Can anyone recommend a good general treatment I can take with me when I drive over in the spring?
