This document specifies the minimum performance requirements for hot air treatment intended for application
against specific classes of wood attacking organism. It specifies the minimum performance criteria to be
achieved by hot air treatment.
NOTE Until now sufficient practical experience and results of scientific tests are available only for heat treatments using
hot air as a medium to increase the temperature inside building components up to a threshold lethal to wood destroying
organisms. Therefore, this document is restricted to hot air treatments although other measures like, for example, radio
waves or electric blankets may be useful means for limited and special applications.
This document is applicable only to hot air treatment, in so far as it is intended to cure attack by wood
destroying beetles and the dry rot fungus (Serpula lacrymans).
This Technical Specification is not applicable to eradicate an attack by termites or by fungi other than the dry
rot fungus (Serpula lacrymans).
Hot air treatment as described in this document does not provide subsequent preventive protection against
attack by wood-destroying organisms.
This document does not define the equipment, techniques or precise operation procedures required to
achieve the parameters given in clause 5 for any set of practical circumstances. Specifications for particular
practical circumstances have to be developed on a case by case basis by expert advisers/consultants.
PD CEN/TS 15003:2005 history
2005PD CEN/TS 15003:2005 Durability of wood and wood-based products - Criteria for hot air processes for curative uses against wood destroying organisms