HiWe just bought a vintage 20’s or 30’s pine log home painted solid brown color. We wanted to corn blast it to the original wood but the guy we hired advised us not to. He power washed the logs and now we are waiting to apply the stain when the logs get dried. Our concern is: he suggested a solid stain to cover the original brown paint. He said he could not strip the paint to the bare wood because the logs are old and corn blasting would do a lot of damage to the logs since there is some
Monika:
Corn blasting is the only way to go unless the old coating is real thick and then we would use sand to blast the finish off. Power washing is cancer to a log home. It drives the water so deep into the wood fiber it never really dries out properly unless you wait 3-4 months, and even then it is not completely dry deep in the wood. Corn blasting will clean your logs 10 times better than power washing and is a completely dry process.