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Preparing Your Log Home for Winter: The Fall Checklist
Winter doesn't damage log homes; water does — winter just gives it more ways in. The whole game of fall prep is controlling where water goes once it can't evaporate quickly anymore.
This is the walk-around we recommend every October, ordered so each check feeds the next.
In this guide
- The walk-around: what to look for at the snow line
- Sealing gaps before the freeze
- Gutters, grade and splash-back
- The last staining window
- interior humidity in heating season (coming in the full draft)
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