Hi All, We have had persistent carpet beetle activity in one of our temporary exhibition galleries, which were brought in a number of years ago with a loan and have unfortunately settled in. The gallery doesn't have any permanent collection and gets changed over 2-3 times a year, so the pests must be living in the fabric of the building itself. We have sealed the edges of the room, and encased ventilation, and a few years ago did a huge clean above the gallery (which has a partially encased glass roof). Based on the monitoring I believe the pests can only be coming from above and/or below.
Before going up again and throwing off our exhibition schedule, I'd like to try sealing the floorboards which have large gaps in some places. I came across a post of the V&A dealing with a similar issue and using a product called Stopgap - Filling gaps in floorboards with StopGap (stopgaps.com)<https://stopgaps.com/filling-gaps-in-floorboards/> Does anyone have experience with this product? Or have any advice on dealing with a similar issue? Many thanks, Hannah Mortell Assistant Conservator Mon-Fri 8.00-16.00 E: hannah.mort...@rpmt.org.uk<mailto:hannah.mort...@rpmt.org.uk> T: 01273 071242 Brighton & Hove Museums brightonmuseums.org.uk<https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/> Brighton & Hove Museums is a trading name of the Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust: Registered Charity No: 1186986, Company Registration No: 11774969. Website: https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/ Postal address: Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton, BN1 1FN -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MuseumPests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/LO0P123MB69125429699649F1A6A44F5ACADC2%40LO0P123MB6912.GBRP123.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.
