Owning a log home does require some upkeep. The house has to be stained every few years to keep the logs from drying out. We usually do it ourselves, but it takes a long time to power wash the house and then brush on the stain. This year we decided to hire someone to do the work. We hired a person and his son. They are familiar with log houses. He has built several and was the person who built on our dining room.
Putting a New Addition on a Log House
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The first thing they did was power wash the whole house. |
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All that spray is making the windows look really bad. They will need washing for sure. |
After they power washed the house and knocked down all the beehives and bird nests, they left and let it dry for a couple days.
When they came back, they covered all my plants and the windows with plastic. I was so worried that they would damage the flowers. We did have some stain sprayed or dripped on the leaves, but I hope it won't do a lot of harm.
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They tried to cover the plants with plastic. | | | | | |
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I know they tried, but some of the plants got dripped on and are suffering some damage. I think we should have waited until fall, so the plants would be dying off anyway.
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The leaves of this hosta look oily. |
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You can see stain dripping off the leaves. Oh dear! |
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Two of the buds are dead and falling off already. |
After putting plastic over all the windows, they were ready to stain. They used a power sprayer, and they were finished before we knew it. What would have taken us all summer, took these two workers less than seven hours each.
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Dining Room area all sprayed and drying. |
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Everything back to normal. |
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