Chinking and Caulking
495 Questions
Archive-1262
We have a shop with upright logs,the chinking looks like black tar and is hard and cracking what do you suggest we use to seal the cracks. Cracks range...
Archive-1518
I am cleaning and re caulking the exterior of my logs. Should i use latex or latex acrylic caulk or is there any difference. I am not caulking checks,...
Archive-1774
I am getting ready to build a new log home. I am going to do all of the work myself. It will be full round logs with swedish cope...
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I have an old log home place that is great condition. It is roughly 67 feet perimeter and 10 logs high. The logs are dovetailed together. The gap between...
Archive-1264
we built a log home in the high plains of Texas. very little moisture, over the years the logs have dried out, now when it does rain it seaps...
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I have an old growth stand of oak, spruce, beech, yellow birch, and rock maple. I want to sell the wood as cutom orders for special projects due to...
Archive-1776
We are currently ready for the chinking process on the interrior of our cabin. In order to save a little money on the Permachink we were thinking of putting...
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I live in Montana, we just bought a log cabin that was not finished. We are going to chink the logs in the next few weeks. We are thinking...
Archive-1266
Can you paint over chinking? we have a large log home that we were staining and some places stain got slopped over the chinking and my husband wants to...
Archive-1522
I recently began removing and re-chinking a log home in Door County, WI. I used a recipe of 6 parts silica sand and 4 parts type M mortar. The...
Archive-1778
I am getting ready to build a new log home. Why do 99.9% of all pictures of log homes I see, they have no gutters ? I definately like...
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I just bought a 20 yr. old log cabin. Flies are getting into the cabin around a patio door & the bedroom windows on the 2nd floor. I can't...
Archive-1268
I am building a log cabin with Oak logs. Many of the logs have tiny crack by the hundreds. most cracks are less than a 1/16 inch wide very...
Archive-1524
We are trying to decide on the color of the chinking for our log home. The logs are a dark cherry color. The windows and doors are white aluminum.
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I am getting ready to build a new log home that I have dreamed about for over 30 years. There is not a look I love more. After reading...
Archive-1014
What is the best recommendation for mulch type when mulching foundation shrubs at a log home
Archive-1270
We have a log cabin and the walls are log. When we purchased it 8 years ago we didn't notice the gray caulking in between the logs, on the...
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I have a fairly new log home built with 6x8 D logs. Gaps have opened up between logs pretty much everywhere, some as wide a 1/4 inch. Previous owner...
Archive-1782
I am getting ready to build a new log home. Because log homes have so much wood inside and out that I will be staining and clear coating, I...
Archive-1016
We have a split level log home built in 1985.Stained and chink over 7 years ago,We also have a gravel driveway and the front door to the driveway is...