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woodworm

Los amigos de Belén y las plagas

Belen for rentokil.es | January 17, 2011
Como ya he dicho muchas veces, desde que trabajo en control de plagas, todos mis amigos me cuentan sus historias sobre las plagas, así que os voy a hacer un resumen de las plagas que ellos han encontrado en sus casas para que os deis cuenta de que no es tan raro y que le [...]

Protect Your Gifts From Pests

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | December 20, 2010
The holidays are upon us once again. Though the season is mostly about being with family and spreading joy, we also receive more temporal things: gifts. In the spirit of the season, we’d like to give you a few tips on how to keep those gifts away from pests.

10 Un-Boring Woodworm Facts

Brigitta for rentokil.ie | October 12, 2010
Some might say that the words ‘interesting’ and ‘woodworm’ cannot possibly go together, but you would be surprised. Either that or my sense of what is interesting is completely warped. Most people think woodworm damage looks like little bullet holes that become visible on the surface of timber. Other signs can also include traces of [...]

Is Your House Falling Down?

Brigitta for rentokil.ie | August 19, 2010
Take a regularly flooded cellar, mix with woodworm infested timbers, add in an attack of Masonry bees, crumbling brickwork and rot – and what do you get? A house that is quite literally falling down. In short, a catastrophe. But thank goodness for online downloads, otherwise I would have missed the first episode of this [...]

The Biggest Myth About Rentokil

for | January 20, 2010
Rentokil. What images does the name conjure up for you? What do you automatically start to think. Well, here is the biggest myth that needs banishing. The company was started by a hitman: Nope, it was started by a professor of entomology at Imperial College, London in 1924. Harold Maxwell-Lefroy had been investigating ways to kill [...]