The history of Westhouses Methodist Church goes back to 1897 when the Church was built by local residents who had until that point made use of the waiting room at the nearby railway station as their place of worship.
Although the church was well constructed using good quality materials, repairs and maintenance are inevitable. The rural location of the church also carries an increased risk from the unwanted interest of wood boring beetles.
In response to increasing evidence of wood boring beetle activity in the floor structure, we were asked to survey the property in 2008. We determined that Anobium punctatum (common furniture beetle) was present in a number of the structural timbers.
As a result of our survey, we were instructed to carry out an insecticide spray treatment of the floor structure including the sub floor area.
The floor joists were found to be particularly sturdy timbers - fairly critical as they were supporting the not inconsiderable weight of the church's traditional organ.
