Wooden House: Protecting From Pests

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

The most environmentally friendly houses are considered to be built of wood. Such houses are popular not only because of their environmental friendliness, but also because of the beauty and ease of construction. Even the air in a wooden house is special. It is believed to have a beneficial effect on human health. For all its advantages, the tree has one huge drawback - various harmful insects and rodents are very fond of it. In this article, we'll take a look at how to successfully deal with insects and keep your home intact?

Most often, the first stages of wood infection occur unnoticed by the owners of the dwelling, only when various beetles thoroughly spoil the wood and crawl to the surface, then people notice them. At this time, holes appear on the surface of the logs, behind which long passages, gnawed by insects, are hidden.

How to deal with insects?

You can secure a house with the help of special tools that are abundantly produced in the modern world: various solutions containing insecticides, fumigators and much more. They not only help to destroy adults of various insect pests, but also extend the life of the wood, help preserve its original color, and prevent it from darkening.

Pest control methods

There are several ways to deal with harmful insects. These are fumigation, chemical treatment and fogation. The choice of a control method directly depends on the type of insects and on the size of the infected areas. Let's take a look at the essence of each method.

Fumigation is a way to get rid of harmful insects in which a room is filled with poisonous gas. Further, the gas enters the holes, fills them and thus destroys both adult insects and their larvae. You can fumigate a room using special tablets, ignited spirals and electric fumigators.

The essence of the treatment with chemical compositions is to apply various compositions to the wood: a protective primer or a special mortar with insecticides, impregnation with insecticides and injecting them with a syringe into the "holes" of the larvae, disinfection with a solution of tar in turpentine or phenol.

Fogation is the spraying of solutions of harmful substances indoors. During this operation, people (except for the processing person himself, using personal protective equipment) are prohibited from being indoors in order to avoid poisoning.

Getting rid of insects

In order to completely get rid of pests and protect your home from a new invasion of uninvited guests, you will need to do several things step by step.

Step one

The first step is to carefully prepare the wood for processing: clean it of dust, debris, cobwebs, remove old paintwork. You can even scrape it slightly. The cleaner the logs are, the better.

Step two

Wood processing. We carefully process the wood or the room itself with a pre-selected method, paying special attention to highly infected areas. The grout can be applied to the walls of the house with a regular paint roller.

Step three

Re-processing the premises. It is carried out two more times, with an interval of two to three days. Never skip re-treatment, as only in this case the insecticides will penetrate deep into the wood and completely destroy both adults and larvae.

Prevention of primary or re-infection

As a preventive measure, you can use the treatment of wooden surfaces with compositions based on turpentine or beeswax, various varnishes and paints, as well as antiseptics.

And finally: if you are just planning to build a wooden house, then it is best to be puzzled by the issue of protection from pests before building a house and carefully select and process the wood.