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woodworm

The Camberley Beetle

Matt for rentokil.co.uk | July 4, 2012
We’ve recently had a shake-up here at the UK end of deBugged. The fun-time social media and marketing folks have moved to a new office complex near Camberley whilst I remain secured in my darkened laboratory. They have a new ‘innovation wall’ and ‘quiet room’: I have a beige wall and a fly culturing room. [...]

Detecting Woodworm

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | June 20, 2012
A couple of years ago I purchased a small table from a local antique shop. Rather than furnishing my cuppa the table is now a pedestal for birds in the garden. The reason for the eviction –  tiny round woodworm holes. So how can you tell if your furniture is going to infest the rest of [...]

Woodworm Stole My Inheritance

Guest for rentokil.co.uk | April 18, 2012
I loved my great-grandfather. I loved the fact that I had one at all as not many people have the pleasure of living great-grandparents, especially when they are old enough to know them. His house was a Victorian treasure trove full of items that he’d promised would be mine when he was gone. One of [...]

Protect Your Timbers

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | January 10, 2012
With regards to to preserving timbers, out of sight, out of mind is not a good ethos to follow.  Damp, rot and woodworm has caused many buildings to crumble  and deteriorate over the centuries. Before one of our founder’s  Harold Maxwell-Lefroy invented a woodworm treatment in the 1920′s there was no cure or future for [...]

Fame and Misfortune

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | January 25, 2011
There’s an interesting tale with a twist behind the name Rentokil. Back in the roaring twenties when Rentokil was formed, little did Harold Maxwell-Lefroy, Professor of Entomology at Imperial College, London, know that Death watch beetles would immortalize his name and also be the very death of him.