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How To Maintain Your Log Home

Why Clean the Exterior

Your log home should be power washed every spring. If it's been awhile since you removed the mold, mildew, or the graying from your exterior logs, you should buy or rent a good power washer to maintain your log home or cabins beauty. You'll be surprised how good your home's exterior wood actually looks once you've power washed your home.

Mold and Mildew Prevention

Proper cleaning of your log home is essential to keeping away a mold or mildew problem. Treating mold and mildew starts with a good power washing of corn blasting of your home. After you complete your mold removal and take care of any rotting issues, seal your home with a protective stain. A proper stain done under the proper conditions is the best way to prevent mold and mildew on your log home. Mold and mildew removal is an important aspect of log home ownership.

Blasting Your Stains

If you are concerned about cleaning your log homes with a power washer or if you are trying to remove your old stains, you'll want to use a blasting technique calls stain blasting or chemical stain removal. This typically involves using water, corn cobs, or glass beads and a high-pressure air compressor to blast your old stains off your home. Corn cobs and glass beads not only keep moisture out of your home, but they also are good for the environment and are biodegradable.

Stain Removing Methods

When you use the stain blasting or chemical stain removal techniques you have a few options. Hire a professional log home restoration company, you can rent a power washer and buy liquid stain remover, or you can use corn cobs and glass beads and blast your home with a hose and a high-pressure air compressor that you can buy or rent from a home-improvement store. A standard air compressor obviously won't do the trick.

Stain Cleaning

Stain cleaning or blasting is essential if you are wanting to apply a new stain to your log home and if your old stain isn't adhesive enough to handle a new wood stain without removal. Staining your home should be done only after effectively cleaning and repairing your wood and filling in any holes.

Quick Guide

How to Treat Log Home Mold or Mildew

? Inspect your home for mold or mildew

? Clean away your mold or mildew through power washing or corn blasting

? Check the moisture level of your log siding. Your log siding should have a moisture level of under 18 percent before it is ready for staining. If your log siding has a moisture level above 18 percent, you will be trapping unnecessary moisture in your logs with staining making conditions ripe for mold and mildew to form once again

? Stain your log home with the sealant of your choice for proper protection

? How to Lighten Your Exterior Dark Wood Log Home Siding

Over the years log homes do lose their wood siding color. This fading will happen if you haven't routinely had your log home power washed and staining. In many cases the logs even with cedar siding will fade from a bright brown color to a dark, drab brown or from a bright color to gray. Many this problem can be fixed with the proper power washing techniques and cleaning solutions. If the discoloration still consist after a good cleaning chances are you will need to have a log home refinishing professional remove the existing stain for you, and refinish your siding.

? How to Lighten Your Interior Dark Wood Log Home Siding

Wood graining is a technique that is used on many surfaces. This procedure enables refinishers, painters, and artist to simulate the look of several wood styles and colors choices using your existing wood to give your home an all-new look. It allows log home refinishers, and painters to transpose your home from a dark lodge brown to a crisp clean bright finish, or even a nice mahogany or cherry finish, depending on your tastes.

Jaworski Coatings, Inc 41735 Oberlin Elyria Road Elyria, Ohio 44035 http://www.ohio-log-home-restoration.com http://www.cleveland-ohio-painting-contractor.com http://www.welovepainting.com 866-874-2114

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