Oil solvent products are very much on the wane. In the majority most companies now use water based products. The so called 'micro emulsions' for timber treatment are insecticide/fungicide encapsulated in a minute globule of solvent suspended in water. The evaporation is therefore extremely small and is therefore non hazardous to health and is non flammable.

We were one of the first companies to use these products in the UK and we found that as well as the safety aspect they can be touch dry within a few hours and re-entry allowed to the property within eight hours.

Sovaq has been recently introduced by Sovereign which has even less toxicity.