Maintenance & Repairs

4 Steps to Safely Restoring Your Cabin or Log Home

There are countless benefits to restoring a historic cabin or log home, but most people generally do it for two reasons: to save money, or for the ...

Interior Log Home Checks

1. Watch for mold or mildew damage to log walls in high-moisture areas such as bathrooms and laundry rooms. 2. Vertical posts with settling jacks ...

Checking Your Log Home Roof Systems

1. Inspect flashing in the valleys of the roof, around the chimney and enclosing plumbing vents to ensure a tight seal against water. Use roof tar ...

Troubleshooting Common Issues

1. Is mold/mildew growing on your logs? First determine whether it is on top of the stain or underneath by dabbing it with a swab soaked in chlorin...

Safe Surrounding for Your Log Home

1. Many maintenance issues will be determined by geography. Like and environmental detective, be on the lookout for signs of insects, wildlife and ...

Basic Log Home Maintenance

There are important log home maintenance steps that can be taken in order to greatly reduce the costs of exterior maintenance. The first major cons...

How to get your log home ready for winter

We’re coming up on those harsh winter months, and while everyone has things on their to-do list in regards to the falling temperatures, winterizing...

10 Easy Steps for Log Home Restoration

It’s not too late to add a task to your list of New Years Resolutions! Restoring your log home can seem to be a daunting task. It doesn’t need to ...

Log Rot: What Causes it and how to fix it

In our previous post, we mentioned what could happen if water got into your home, and one of the possibilities we mentioned was log rot. In this p...

How to Keep Moisture Out of Your Log Home

When it comes to log homes, too much moisture can be a bad thing. Log homes can be a bit of an investment, so it makes sense that you want to do e...

Yearly log home maintenance and inspections

Yearly log home inspection is an important part of owning a log home. Proper inspection and subsequent maintenance will ensure that your home will...

How to Repair Large Voids in Logs

Neglected log homes develop sections of logs that have deep pockets of decayed wood that is either very soft or loose and crumbly. If caught early ...