Chinking and Caulking
495 Questions
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I all ready put a polyurethane over my oil base finish will the chinking stick to it?
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I have just purchased a log home that has loose cracking chinking in places and has had other products put on it seems to be like caulk and silicon....
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I am building a small guest cabin here in northwest Florida out of long needle pine logs I cut off our property. They vary in size from 11 inches...
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We have a 20 year old cabin and the interior has never been finished so the logs have just darkened over time. What is the best method to lightened...
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To whom it may concern, I'm currently doing some HVAC work at a park model sized mobile home that has been constructed out of either pine or spruce timber...
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We have a gallon of chinking which has been in the garage for a year. Garage is heated. It now is thin, is there a product to thicken the...
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We have a 45 year old log cabin in the foothills of the Adirondacks. The bottom logs have rotted to point that we cut off the ends and filled...
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My buddy and I took down a 1900 log home and reserected it at the lake we almost to the chinking stage but now face a problem. When the...
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Need to remove old Log Jam Chinking that has pulled away from the logs. Any ideas on how to do this?
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My log home was built in1977, the inside of the walls are varnished. I was told if the inside was finished not to do anything to the outside. Now...
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Getting a neat chink line around the joints of our saddle notched logs isn't as easy as I expected. Any suggestions on technique for this?
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We have a 12 year old hand peeled log home. The front of the house gets a lot of sun and has many small checks in most of the...
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We have a cypress dog trot home that is cypress inside and out. The cypress plank walls have gaps range from 1/4-1/2 inch. What can we do to fill...
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hi, we have a an older lodge type home with oak plank flooring, 1/2 wide gaps and several coats of polyurethane. What product should I use to fill the...
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Following advice, we filled all upward-facing checks in our logs with a product called Check-Mate. I read that you don't recommend this procedure because it can promote rot. So,...
Archive-1798
I have a 15 year old saddle fitted Douglas fir log home that has leaked on all exterior wall from day one. The design leaves no room for chinking,...
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We had a professional painter recommend we brush our logs before we re-stain. We understand brushing fluffs the logs. What should we do.
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We have a new log house with some leaking windows. Can you recommend someone in the Sharps Chapel TN area to help us?
Archive-1544
We are interested in doing some chinking for our son (log home builder) and have experience on our own home but have no idea how much to charge. The...