How to remove woodworm from wooden furniture

wood with woodworm

It tienes wooden furniture decorating some rooms in your home, you must be very careful with woodworm. Woodworm Is an insect that tends to attack wood, especially soft wood, such as wood pine or cedar.

That is why you must be attentive to possible woodworm remains in your furniture and in the case of detecting a problem, remedy and end it.

To make sure your furniture is not infected for the woodworm, insert a needle into the holes. In the event that it sinks, you can rest easy because it is not woodworm. If on the contrary there is sawdust scraps in the holes, it is very possible that your furniture is infected.

Before you start, you must remove all the dust that may be in the furniture. To combat and eliminate woodworm you must inject a solution that they sell in specialized stores. Take a syringe and apply the product inside the holes. Make sure to introduce all the whole substance. To finish you must wrap the furniture in plastic for a couple of days. To be sure, you must repeat the operation again and leave the furniture wrapped for a couple of weeks.

eliminate woodworm

Once the treatment has finished, it is important that you perform a thorough cleaning of the furniture and totally renew it to avoid the appearance of woodworm in the future. Anyway, you can leave those holes in wood or pass a little varnish or wax to make it look like a piece of furniture completely new and renovated.

As you have seen, woodworm It is something very common among wooden furniture and they tend to suffer it very often but if it is caught in time you do not have to worry. With these tips you can eliminate it in an easy and simple way.


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