Maintenance & Repairs

For the best performance and longest lasting beauty LIFELINE finishes should only be applied to bare wood surfaces or an existing LIFELINE finish that is still in good condition. To remove an exist...

How to Seal Checks in Logs and Siding

It is virtually impossible to prevent logs from developing cracks and checks as they age and dry. That's because as a large piece of wood seasons, mechanical stresses build up until the surface str...

Maintenance Coats of Finish

The most important thing that you can do to help maintain the finish of your log home is to keep it clean. A washing with Log Wash a couple times a year will help prevent airborne contaminates, dir...

Effects of pH on Bare Wood Surfaces

Over the past few years we've developed a lot of information about the importance of pH as it relates to preparing a home for the application of a finish. Following are some of the reasons why pH i...