Log Home Maintenance

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Caulking: Sealing Log Joints

   As you know your log home is made of a natural product (wood) that goes through dimensional changes during the wet and dry, hot and cold cycles caused by the weather. Movement will occur, and it is vital in a log home that the best suited sealant materials are used to provide the tightest seal possible.

   Application of caulking normally lowers your fuel bill, aids in preventing flies and insects from becoming a problem and keeps water from penetrating and staining or damaging inside walls and becoming trapped on or in log joints or severe checks, and thereby beginning the slow process of rot, sometimes an 8 to 10 year process.

   In the past we highly recommended and sold "Puttylastic" brand caulking, however it was discontinued in 2017. Since then we have been using a variety of products including Permachink, Dymonic 100, Sansin Timber-Tec Chinking, and Manus-Bond. As we continue to test new products, check with us to see what we've found. Most people seem to select one product over another based on a color match. Permachink is water based while the others are petroleum based.