Pest control and fumigation in Panadura

The timber trade is the pest story

Panadura works in wood, and borers travel in wood. A workshop holding sawn stock for months, or a showroom holding finished pieces, is holding whatever came in with the timber. Fine powder below a piece and small round exit holes in the surface are the usual first sign, and the holes mean a generation has already left.

Treating the stock rather than the room is what makes the difference, and how the stack is built decides whether the treatment reaches the middle of it.

Stacking for treatment

Timber packed tight with no air gaps slows a gas down considerably. We build or adjust the stack for the job rather than treating it exactly as found, which adds time at the start and is the difference between a treatment that works through the pile and one that only reaches the outside.

The rest of the town

Away from the timber trade Panadura is housing and small commercial premises along the coast road, with the ordinary run of household work: cockroaches, ants, rodents in roof spaces and mosquitoes after rain.

What to check before buying timber in

Powder below a stack and small round exit holes in the surface are the two signs worth knowing. Both mean a population has already been living inside the wood, and both are far cheaper to deal with before the timber goes into a build or onto a showroom floor than afterwards. If you buy in regularly it is worth treating on arrival rather than on discovery.