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Ed: I wouldn’t put anything on them. It will be gone in 12-18 months anyway. Trying to treat a roof is worse than trying to keep stain on a deck! You should also check with manufacturer to make sure it wouldn’t invalidate a warranty.

They need it in the roof. You will have to have a ”sandwich roof” built over the exsisting one.

Life Line Stain requires maint. every 3 years, unless it has some high exposer to the sun sides. The TSP/bleach mixture will probably not take all of it off.

The Boracare will not interfere with the chinking, but if you have any sort of finish on the logs you should save you money because it will not work. As for applying over the mortar, you might want to run some masking tape down the center of the of the… Read More »Archive-7108

Water stains are next to impossible to get rid of. You can try to sand them out, but if they are real old and deep into the wood fiber you may not get rid of them completely. It sounds like you need to have the exterior caulked or chinked if… Read More »Archive-7110

You need to build a sandwich roof on the exterior over the exsisting roof.

It needs to be corn cob blasted and borate treated. Do not use varnish. Buy a good quility log home stain like Perma Chink Life Line.

Shounds like mold. You might want to get a local mold expert in.

Wipe them down with a mixture of 1 cup bleach, 1 cup TSP and 4-5 gallons of water. Rinse. This should help remove any mold spores.

1. you will probably never get the water stains out. 2. You need to have a mold expert look at it. 3. Not much you can do to stop the bees other than have a exterminatior on retainer. 4. Get a dehumidifier going ASAP.