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Renovating a Log Home: Repair, Replace, Refinish
Most log home renovations start with a discovery nobody wanted: soft wood at a corner, a stain that's given up, gaps you can feel the weather through. The good news is that almost everything on a log home is repairable or replaceable — if you sequence the work right.
This guide covers the order of operations we recommend on the phone every week: assess, repair structure, seal, then finish. Done in that order, each step protects the one after it.
In this guide
- Assessing what you actually have (and what's worth saving)
- Matching replacement logs and siding to an existing home — even if it isn't ours
- Rot repair: epoxy paste vs. replacement
- Re-sealing: caulk, chinking, backer rod
- Refinishing: strip, clean, stain
- working with repair contractors (coming in the full draft)
- cost ranges (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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