How to Save Time and Money Maintaining Your Log Home

• By Nate Demers
• 7 Mar 2018
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You may be asking yourself: How can I save money to build a log home? Are log homes affordable? How can I keep my maintenance cost down? Let’s start with the the bad news first. Unfortunately, some log home designs are flawed and will create chronic problems because of the architectural details built into the […]

How much does log maintenance cost?

• By Nate Demers
• 6 Mar 2018
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Why does log restoration cost so much? When you analyse a true Log Home Specialist what do you expect?  A good log home specialist has experience building log homes, is a licensed contractor and has workers comp and liability insurance.  Also. a good log home contractor has years of experience and blends the trades of […]

Chinking and Caulking

• By Nate Demers
• 29 Jan 2018
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Common types of Chinking, Caulking and Air Sealing for new and old log homes explained What are the common types of Chinking, Caulking and Air Sealing for Log Homes? What works best and what should be avoided? What conditions cause failures? These are some of the common questions that customers customers ask me so lets […]

Media, Corn Cob and Sandblasting Logs

• By Nate Demers
• 21 Jan 2018
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There are many myths and alternative facts on the Internet about media blasting. Media blasting is a form of removing stain, paints, debris, and other coatings from a substrate with compressed air or steam which accelerate a particle or media that removes the finish on impact. Let’s talk about the types of media used on […]

Chemical Stripper Considerations

• By Nate Demers
• 19 Jan 2018
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The use of chemical strippers is not as easy as many people think, especially when it pertains to stripping paints and stains off of facia, soffit, decks and logs.  There are scenarios that stripping is unavoidable, however we use stripping as a last option if no other treatment is applicable. Pros  1. Strippers can remove […]

Milling Logs

• By Nate Demers
• 19 Jan 2018
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By Nate Demers These pictures were taken deep in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal. You have to be a tough man to run a Whipsaw all day! Let’s talk a little about how we mill logs. The two most common ways log home contractors in the midwest mill logs or rip cut them, which is […]