StevieB
Established Member
SWMBO has been donated a piece of furniture from a friend, an old hall stand. Fairly old and knackered, in need of some TLC. I have had a look and started taking it apart and it seems to be a standard frame of oak, with oak faced ply as a panel on the back rest. Attached to this is a circular mirror on some inch thick ply as a mount, both screwed to the thin ply back panel. On taking the mirror and support off the back panel it becomes clear that the thin backing ply is full of holes where the mirror was, and the inch thick ply mount has 25-30 bore holes in it. It looks like something has bored through the mount and out through the back of the hallstand. None of the oak frame has bore holes, so it appears that the eggs were laid in the mirror mount before it was used as a mount, then the worms ate through it and the ply backing sheet before dispersing. So my questions are:
Should I be worried about new insects eating their way out now and affecting other timber in the house? It has been indoors in my house for approx 10 days now.
Any recommendations on tratment of infected furniture? A search of the forum only has a couple of threads on woodworm but they relate to unfinished timber, not a finished piece of furniture.
The house the piece came from shows no evidence of worm and it had been indoors there for over a year, but that doesnt mean there are no live worms in the piece, just that nobody has seen them.
I havent seen any fresh dust around the piece, but then you wouldnt expect that much from munching through a thin piece of ply anyway.
Any thoughts welcomed. I am tempted to ditch the thing but SWMBO is keen on it being restored and kept :roll:
Cheers,
Steve.
Should I be worried about new insects eating their way out now and affecting other timber in the house? It has been indoors in my house for approx 10 days now.
Any recommendations on tratment of infected furniture? A search of the forum only has a couple of threads on woodworm but they relate to unfinished timber, not a finished piece of furniture.
The house the piece came from shows no evidence of worm and it had been indoors there for over a year, but that doesnt mean there are no live worms in the piece, just that nobody has seen them.
I havent seen any fresh dust around the piece, but then you wouldnt expect that much from munching through a thin piece of ply anyway.
Any thoughts welcomed. I am tempted to ditch the thing but SWMBO is keen on it being restored and kept :roll:
Cheers,
Steve.