The fact that your customers found piles of dust indicates that the insects are active. Totally effective kill on all stages of the ppb, non toxic and I believe non damaging even to the coating.įrom Gene Wengert, forum technical advisor: If active, look into radio generated plasma energy. The holes will show new raw wood at the edges where the adult has just emerged from. A kiln is probably way bigger than needed.įirst make certain you have an active infestation. Thirty six hours is probably overkill and if additional drying occurs then you could have problems with finish adhesion and joints. You just need to get the core of the wood to temp and hold it there for 30 minutes or so. The temp's needed should not affect the finish. I probably will pre-finish a sample piece to try first to see what will happen, then make a decision. They have to be eliminated in all the wood and it should come out of the house so they don't attack the furniture or other woods. He and his wife love the piece, and still want to second one built as soon as we do away with the bug problem.Ĭlick here for higher quality, full size image My customer is willing to work with me as far as paying for my time.

We decided to kiln the piece, and the rest of the lumber that I have yet to use. My bigger concern was their log home, although I am not as worried now as when I picked up the piece. I brought the piece back home, they are not mad at me in any way. Charge them a good fee and keep the client happy. If they are telling you that this is something that you need to deal with on your nickel, they are sorely mistaken. If they are asking you for your services to help them destroy the bugs in their wood, then I see no problem with this. If the quality of your work is up to par and is what they designed that is all you are obligated to perform. I wish I could catch a break, between three customer who owe us, and being behind to cash flow issues, this job is quickly loosing it's fun factor, which is why I own my own business right? The biggest concern is I have already been paid for this piece, and have already started on another piece for the customer out of the same wood. I could fumigate the piece with a fumigant, but I don't know if it will affect the pre-cat finish on it. I know that in order to kill out the bugs at this point we will need to kiln the entire piece to around 135 to 145 deg for about 36 hours in order to kill the bugs, but I'm a bit hesitant to put an entire finished piece in a kiln. I just received a call that there are piles of fine saw dust under one of the shelves, and a couple of other places on the hutch. I built the piece as instructed to keep it rustic looking (went in a log home). The customer provided the lumber which was supposed to be kiln dried. I built and delivered a wormy persimmon hutch for a customer last week.

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