04-01-2015, 01:58 PM
Yes, I try to avoid chemicals if possible. It's easy to panic when you see the signs of wood-worm, but by that point, it's too late; the damage has been done. If at all possible, the best way to deal with wood-worm is to not provide them with a nice environment - keeping wood in a heated house is usually sufficient to get the moisture content down to below the level that can sustain them.
Perhaps I'm biased here - most of my experience of wood-worm comes from the fact I live in a wreck of a Victorian terraced house. But with radios, I've often wondered why the worm is so attracted to them, and I suspect that it's a combination of the wood used (often high quality birch ply) and the glues in the plywood. If you have radios stored in a shed, there must be something that makes them more appealing than the shed itself, not to mention all the other timber that's lying around the place. There is some discussion of that on this page:
http://www.buildingconservation.com/arti...odworm.htm
Perhaps I'm biased here - most of my experience of wood-worm comes from the fact I live in a wreck of a Victorian terraced house. But with radios, I've often wondered why the worm is so attracted to them, and I suspect that it's a combination of the wood used (often high quality birch ply) and the glues in the plywood. If you have radios stored in a shed, there must be something that makes them more appealing than the shed itself, not to mention all the other timber that's lying around the place. There is some discussion of that on this page:
http://www.buildingconservation.com/arti...odworm.htm
