In Reply to: Check your wooden items.............. posted by bunbury gal on Thursday, 2. February 2006 at 07:36 Bali Time:
I was told on our first trip in 91 that if we have wooden items to put them in the freezer for at least 48 hrs and it will take care of any bugs. This was told to me at Brisbane airport by customs when they did not find any dust or bugs and just to make sure. Each time we come back through Bribane I ask customs about this and they still say it is true. What I do is to make sure you knock them on the counter like the customs do before you leave Bali to get out any dust or bugs first and then I ask the hotel we are staying in if we can put these small items in the cold room for a couple days and they have never said no. Of course other items we ship back is through (Harry) he does all the work for it.
This may be correct or not but we have never had any problems with wood items after putting them in the freezer.