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How to Seal Around a Window in Your Log Cabin
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Log Home Caulking
| Jim McCain
The area around a window is often not properly prepared or sealed with caulking or chinking. Many homeowners leave large gaps in the logs, giving water and insects an easy entrance into your log ho...
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Should You Chink or Stain Your Logs First?
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Log Home Chinking
Log Home Stains
| Weatherall Company, Inc.
In most cases, staining should come first. It alleviates the problems of discoloring the chinking when stain is applied after the chinking is installed.
Water based stain provides a better bond to ...
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How to Install Backer Rod
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Log Home Chinking
| Weatherall Company, Inc.
Are you installing backer rod on your log home? It’s a project that you can take on yourself.
Here’s a how-to guide on backer rod installation for your log home.
What Is Backer Rod?
Before you be...
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How to Clean Your Logs Before You Stain
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Log Home Stains
| Weatherall Company, Inc.
Before you stain your log cabin, it’s important to clean your logs to ensure that the log surface is stable, clean and free of dirt, oil and failed coatings. But what’s the best way to clean your l...
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What to Do With Leftover Stain: 4 Creative Crafts
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Log Home Stains
| Weatherall Company, Inc.
If you have leftover stain from your last home-improvement project — and a bit of a creative spark — this extra material hardly has to go to waste.
Below are four fun crafts you can do with your le...
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Chink in Half the Time (Without Losing Quality)
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Log Home Chinking
| Weatherall Company, Inc.
Almost every log home is built with chinking. Even “chinkless” log homes (such as “Scandinavian Chinkless” homes) usually have some form of chinking.
Unless you own a rare traditional chinkless no...
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4 Home Improvement Projects Worth Your Money
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Log Homes
| Weatherall Company, Inc.
3 Kinds of Log Rot and How to Treat It
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Log Homes
| Weatherall Company, Inc.
Wood contracts and expands regularly as humidity levels and temperature fluctuate.
As the wood morphs, it cracks and creates slots for water to accumulate. These pockets of enduring moisture lead ...
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The 5 Ways Log Homes Stand Up To Hurricanes, Tornadoes, And The Tests Of Time
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Log Homes
| Coleman Kelleghan
Just hearing the words “log home” might take you back to pioneer days – picturing wood stoves, root cellars, housewives cooking while their husbands are out hunting dinner – but today’s log homes a...
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7 Ways You Can Build Your Dream Log Home - Without Breaking The Bank
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Log Homes
| Coleman Kelleghan
Building a log home is a great investment – log homes are durable, hard-wearing, and can often be less expensive than a comparable traditionally built “Stick Home” – log home building materials are...
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Things to Keep in Mind During Log Home Restoration
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Log Homes
| Coleman Kelleghan
Restoring a log home to great condition can be a lot of back breaking work, but it’s well worth it. All kinds of damage can be repaired, as well as prevented for the future. From carpenter bees to ...
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