Beautiful job! Beautiful Cabin! Welldone!
I can relate to the upkeep on a log home. Ours is 30 years old this year and I've been researching and gathering the necessary supplies to do a full cleaning, chinking and re-staining next year.....not looking forward to it either!
The price of things today just simply drives me nuts. The house was re-stained (cleaned, chinked, etc...) 10 years ago (just before we bought it) and cost $4000. Now, because it's 2024, Boulder and the mountain premium has hit hard because of all the VRBOs and people moving into the mountains, the bids are coming in at $12k-$18k! Ouch....
LMK if you have any advice from your project.
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Your home and homestead, sir, are gorgeous.
Ours is just a ranch on an acre with no view. Your saltbox design with that view - beautiful.
I have buckets full of advice, sir.
Also, looks like your log home, like mine, is non traditional. No cope-cutting at the ends to fit log into log. They call our design "a butt and pass". They may be natural or rounded on the sides, but the top and bottoms of these logs are flat with the exception of a groove along the bottom with a tongue along the top. There is (or should be) a gasket atop the tongue, and the logs are "abutting" each other at the corners. Every 2 or 3 courses of logs are pinned together with rebar or smooth,purpose made pins.
There is likely seldom more than half an inch between each log course, sometimes no space at all, I'm guessing. You may not need chinking, but caulking will help.
The lowest 3 course of logs are not logs, that is a 2x4 framed area sitting atop the foundation with half logs used to cover that sill plate. Your electric and such is run through there.
Where your Buick is parked, just under the stairs, that corner and whole wall is also not logs, but more foundation or stick frame covered with half rounds to keep appearance the same as the top.
Were your logs hand peeled with bits of bark and knots and even the first inch or so of some cut branches still present? If so and if you want to keep that appearance, it gets a little tricky. I'm sanding to bare wood by hand to preserve those rustic qualities, though I start of gently with the grinder where heavy, old multiple applications of stain still live.
Sorry for the Wall Of Text. Since starting this project I have done a lot of research and am very passionate about it.
I'll hit you up via DM
