Log Home Staining
911 Questions
Staining over interior log siding
I have half-log tongue and groove pine siding in my living room. It was initially stained a cedar color with transparent stain and I don’t believe a sealer was...
Logs look dull and faded
Hey Log Doc! My log home was initially built in 2008, it was only partially stained and the rest was covered in sun damage. When I purchased in 2015...
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I'm going to be retaining a log cabin the person that did it 2 years ago used one step outlast the medium reddish brown it didn't hold well and...
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What stain do you recommend for a cypress log home built in 2002 and stained with oil finish about 2005? The finish is quite dry by now
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I recently bought montana log siding and my nails and screws r splitting the wood what size do i use
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We build log homes but I still haven't found a good way to re-stain logs without discoloring the chinking. We've been cutting in with a brush and it takes...
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How can you determine if the stain on your logs is either oil based or latex? We moved into a log cabin and we don't know how long ago...
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Which home would you recommend to build in central mississippi. Eastern pine log home or a modern stick frame home?
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I have a log cabin in Indiana...I used Cabot brand natural stain that did not have any sheen to it about 7 years ago...it is now faded and black...
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I recently purchased a 12 year old log home. I do not know the history of the original log application care, nor the followup maintenance care. I would like...
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Log Doctor,I own Dun-Rite Painting in Boone NC I use a great deal of Sikkens products.How ever one of my customers is having a very large log home being...
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We have just finished puting on the 1st coat of Sikkens Cetol Log & Siding Natural and we cannot decide which caulking to use for the cracks. Should we...
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Dear Log Doctor, Six years ago I had the inside of my basement finished with wood log siding and I finished these logs with two coats of clear Polyurethan...
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We put super deck exterior stain on our inside cedar walls now we have an odor. Will polyurethane interior sealer work or do you have other suggestions? Sherwin Williams...
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Great website! I submitted a question a few weeks ago, but my email was down and I didn't get the answer. So here is a simplified version. I have...
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We have a home with log railings on the deck. They were oiled by a ''professional painter'' with Pittsburg Paints Sunproof Semi Transparent Neutral Base Plus Superdeck 1901 Cedar...
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Hello log doctor, we have just applied Wodguard exterior on a newly constructed lodgepole pine log home. It looks terrific. It sounds like we may have fading fairly quickly....