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no on the back.

Do not use these products on your logs. The logs do need to breathe. Do not fill all of the checks (cracks) in the logs. Best to leave them open unless you know they are letting wind, water or bugs get inside.

Do not use any motor oil. Try washing with TSP and hot water, but it would be best to corn blast and start over. Not sure if you will ever get any kind of stain to stick with the oil in the wood fiber.

Once blasted and stained properly it will last many years if maintenance is kept up. It will require some sort of maintenance every 3 or 4 years.

Yes you can apply faux log ends at corners. Call Ryan at 877-788-5647 for help. As for the back splash, you should be able to remove the tile and sand logs to re-finish. Hopefully they didn’t chisel flats on the logs to apply tile.

You should Osborne brush the timbers and then apply a good deck stain. Call Dave at Timeless Wood Care Products for help and the materials you will need.

Call Dave at 800-564-2987. He can answer questions for you and will have what ever you need to stain your log home.

You probably are not going to get the black off from your logs without sanding or media blasting. Call Mike at 866-670-3020 for help.

You should continue doing what you are doing until you can have the existing finish removed and get a good quality latex stain on it. No, Borax is not the same product. Similar, but not the same.

Hard to say without seeing it, but it sounds like there may be some water splash off from a deck or something maybe? Call Dave at 800-564-2987. He will have a product that should be able to get most of the black out and then stain. If it is water… Read More »Archive-4958