Log Home Restoration - Renovation and Repair.

Here is an excellent example of having selected the WRONG contractor for a restoration/repair project. When we arrived, he had not only made this Log Home look like a Zebra but, everything this contractor did, was wrong.

Disgusting Craftmanship!

The home owner could have done a better job himself after watching one of our how to do video's.

Are there logs which will need to be replaced? Wood rot? You bet it is! Some of these logs will have to be replaced.

Another shot of the Zebra home.

Don't let this happen to your

Log Home restoration project.

Give us a call.

 

The Last thing you want living with you is Termites... Right? 

This log home, it was discovered,

had a nest of Termites,[top ridge pole]

 

At the sole amusement of our

Log Home owner, the first step was to clean out the nest. I did not think it was the least Damn bit funny as these things went down my shirt sleeves and were crawling all over me during the whole process.

 

Once that task had been completed and my profanity

subsided, we cut the log back

behind the fasca trim and

protected the log from the rain

towards the next phase.

We had to include this picture of the Log Home owner.

With Termites all over me, down my shirt - in my pants - on my back and in my hair, this is a picture of him running away laughing his silly head off just after I had made an emergency descent in the power lift and am in front of the power lift, rolling around on the ground tearing my clothes off.

Yeah.... Real funny now! But not then..

Foam was then used to fill cavity two inches from the inside surface edge.Then capped with a custom fitted two inch thick log.

A two inch thick insert

restored log appearance.

Here you see the original chinking which seems in this section to have done the job quite nicely. It is mortar. The old mortar acts as a Backer Rod. All cracks in mortar are sealed, logs chemically cleaned, borated, stained and chinked.

This is how the above Log Home restoration project looked after

all of our work had been completed.

Owner approved!

And the termites...? They won't be back.

This log lacked back brushing. Excess finish stain built up above small horz. checks. Proper planning and application prevents this. Restoring this is possible.

Here are just a few of the things you

need to know about

BEFORE starting a restoration project:

 

Removing old or poorly applied finishes.

The pro's and con's of stripping mediums.

How will liquid strippers, baking soda, corn husk and fine sand do the job for you?

This discoloration { purplish brown } is a common problem. The pigment in the stain applied to this log contained Iron oxide. Before applying the stain, some contractor failed to Neutralize the acids (oxalic acid) used to clean or brighten raw wood.

To restore this required a total strip job.

And if you were wondering, yes that contractor had long since disappeared.