Follow Chris Hastings of Pacific Chinking Log Home Restoration Consulting Services week by week as he completely restores a log cabin on Whidbey Island, WA. (Chris Hastings has been featured on Home Time TV series and many log home magazines. )

Q:  Chris, could you tell our website visitors what caused all this wood rot?

A:  The major problem is in the design of the house. The house was designed improperly for the building site. The extensive damage on the lower third of the wall on the exposed side of the house is due to the unsufficient overhangs and water damage.

Q:  What kind of work will you do to bring this house back to life?

A:  The first step for this project is exterior corncob blasting, followed by log repairs, washing and brightening the exterior wood surface, applying borates to preserve the logs and interior and exterior chinking.

Lets take a look at what Chris has been done so far.

Due to the rainy weather, Chris couldn't start any work outside, so he did interior chinking. In places where old mortar fell off between the logs, Chris used Grip Strip prior to Perma-Chink chinking application. Grip Strip reduces the amount of chinking needed to effectively seal the gaps between the logs.

After interior chinking was completed, Chris used Blaster-Buddy finish removal system and corncob media to remove old finish and clean the logs.

Next Chris will cut away some of the logs.

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