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My recommendation would be to use Perma Chink with yellow masking tape as a backer, but if you want to use mortar then you shoud use expanded metal as backer. Why mortar?

LEAVE THEM OPEN! This is the logs way to breathe. You might have to fill larger ”checks” that are running into a door, window or corner, and allowing wind, water or bugs to get inside. If you fill these checks (cracks), water will still get down behind the fill and… Read More »Archive-1598

Perma Chink’s Life Line Acrylic Gloss or Satin

Try using the rope or backer rod and fill with wood putty.

Call Mike at 866-670-3020 for the stripping and staining. Call Ryan at 877-788-5647 for the log replacement.

Spend the money up front and apply latex chink. The old mortar chinking will allow water in to rot the logs. Those must be some big Junipers! Never heard of that before.

Any timethere is rot you should get it replaced. You can never completely stop the rot with boratesand impel rods.

DO NOT use Styrofoam! It is an open celled foam and gives off gases that will cause the chink to bubble over time. You need to use Grip Strip which is a closed cell foam. Call Timeless Wood Care Products at 800-564-2987 for this. It comes in many width’s. You… Read More »Archive-1610

I would not recommend it. I have seen it used before and did not hold up to the movement of the logs.

Chinking over the mortar will be fine. It is the least expensive way to do it.