Preventing Woodworm

This is one of the few remaining highland cottages and is in Pitlochry. It has a bit of a woodworm problem so is being dehumidified whilst a use for the building is found. The dehumidifiers dry the air in the expectation that this will disrupt the life cycle of the woodworm. It is too

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early to say but humidity loggers show that what we are doing is working. Counting beetles on the window cills will give some idea of whether we are winning the fight.