Identify and protect your home from the House Longhorn Beetle For this instalment of our woodworm series, we look at the House Longhorn Beetle (Hylotrupes bajulus). This beetle is also known as the Camberley beetle, because...
Everything you need to know about the Deathwatch Beetle Typically running from April until September each year, what is commonly known as “woodworm” season is in full swing, so homeowners should keep a close eye out...
Everything you need to know about the Common furniture beetle While it may be easy to forget given the recent wet weather, spring actually arrived a number of weeks ago, and with it, so did the...
In Valley Railway Station on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales, a historic signal box that had survived since December 1867 was under serious threat due to decay caused by wet rot. Fortunately, our local team...
With winter firmly behind us, the arrival of lighter evenings and the clocks having gone forward, many people may be thinking about giving their property a spring clean. Cold and wet weather often cause issues in...
2020 was undoubtedly a challenging year, and while many of us may have hoped for a less turbulent start to 2021, the weather unfortunately hasn’t been in our favour. Since the beginning of January, the UK,...
Many Brits turned to their hand to home improvements during the full UK lockdown earlier in the year. American Express revealed that more than £3.7 billion was spent in the UK on gardening during that period,...