Log Home Restoration: Stripping and Sealing
- Log Home Restoration: Failing Finish
Log Home Restoration: After Stripping
- Log Home Restoration: Finished Staining and Chinking
to ensure all chemical residue has been removed for proper stain adhesion.
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Log Home Restoration: Chemical Stripping
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Log Home Restoration: The Importance of Neutralizing
Before and After Neutralizing
Stripping removes failing sealer or grayed out wood but, it also raises the ph level and darkens the wood as well as leaves residue that will not rinse out. If the wood is not neutralized the darkened wood will make a semi-transparent stain several shades darker. Moreover, stripper residue WILL interact with the new sealer causing premature failure. It is one extra step but, if ignored big problems will arise!
In this log home restoration, the left door has had nothing done to it yet, The right side was stripped and still wet from the neutralizer. When it dries, it is properly prepared and ready for sealing.
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Log Home Restoration: Short Photo Show
This Photo Show of our latest log home restoration show a few before and after pictures of a cabin in Boone, NC. that we did as typical “strip & seal. Heading to Fredericksburg, VA. to a 4200 sf. home to be cob blasted.
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Log Home Restoration: New Videos
Be sure to check out our YouTube Channel videos!
We will be adding new video on a regular basis so check back often.
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Log Home Restoration
This log home restoration required stripping this pine dove tail log and pressure treated deck.
There was no finish on the logs or deck but we stripped using a mild stripping solution as if there were a f
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Log Home Restoration: Cedar Garage Doors
Cedar Garage Door Before Stripping
Cedar Garage Door Refinished
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Log Home Restoration: Bleaching Logs
During this log home restoration, We bleached the logs to remove sap staining, mildew, mold and degraded wood. As you can tell, the logs are left looking really “washed out.” The bright clean logs (left) were defelted and neturalized using a very mild solution. It also was rinsed very well. It is imperative to remove all chemical solutions from the wood before sealing.
Also, it is best to do it all (cleaning, stripping, neutralizing) at one time while the logs are still wet. Once the logs have dried, it is much harder to activate whatever chemical solution was used and then rinse it completly out.
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Log Home Restoration: On The Coast
- Recently Stripped
- Oil Finish
the topcoat does form a film, in this case, it helps keep the salt from accumulating on the upward facing side of the logs. In such a harsh enviorment, a topcoat will be applied every year for two or three years. Then, it will be inspected to determine if additional coats will be applied and at what intervals.
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Log Home Restoration: Another Cedar Garage Door
- Cedar Garage Door
This garage door had a linseed oil based stain. Between the sun and applying the stain to an improperly prepared surface, it turned black in a matter of a few months. Most likely, the door was cleaned with bleach and not rinsed well enough. Also, it probably was not neutralized. The homeowner thought the door was beyond repair. We were in the process of stripping it when this picture was taken. We did neutralize afterwards. Makes all the difference!
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