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Cleaning & Restoring Weathered Logs: Strip, Brighten, Refinish
Gray logs aren't dead logs. UV-bleached surface fibers make walls look far worse than they are — and the restoration chemistry to fix it is straightforward once you know which product family does what.
Cleaners, strippers, brighteners: three different jobs that get mixed up constantly. Here's the decision path.
In this guide
- Diagnosing: dirt, gray fiber, failed finish, or rot?
- Cleaners vs. strippers vs. brighteners
- The restoration sequence, start to finish
- When media blasting is worth it
- neutralizing and dry times before stain (coming in the full draft)
Two-minute answer, one phone call
Sizing, matching, freight — talk to someone who has actually built with this stuff.
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