Guidelines to Follow When Log Home Chinking

Do you own a log cabin? If not, do you have any plans of building one? Do you know anything about chinking? Do you have any idea of certain things that every log owner must know before and after owning log cabins?

Indeed, there are a couple of things you can try to learn but one thing’s for sure, you need to realize that log homes need attention. Though it does not mean you have to spend all of your time in log cabin chinking, staining, caulking, re-chinking, re-caulking and more.

Five Guidelines on How to Take Care of Your Log Homes

Listed below are some helpful guidelines you can follow in taking care of your log home cabins:

1. Set up and follow a schedule in maintaining your log homes.
2. Apply log home stain as often as your log cabins need one. Log stain mixtures are quite costly; but in the long run you will realize it helps you save more in preserving the beauty of your log cabins.
3. At some point, you must re-caulk or re-chink your log cabins.
4. There are certain log homes that require more caulking, staining or chinking than others.
5. The log chinking mixture must be compatible with the log staining and the log caulking mixtures. It is better to purchase all the materials from one supplier to make sure you’ll get compatible products.

The best time to perform chinking maintenance is during summer. At least there is one season in every year that you can pamper your dream homes. If you want your log home to serve you well, you also need to treat it well.