| Edmunds & Company launches new initiative - an E-Newsletter! |
Greetings!
Some of you may know me and some of you do not. My name is Matt Edmunds and I am the owner of Edmunds and Company Log Home Restorations. Over the past 32 years, we have made the restoration of log homes...our only business! We have worked on some interesting and significant buildings over the years - maybe even yours. We appreciate the rustic character and history of log buildings and keeping them looking nice and healthy is our goal.
This E-Newsletter is part of our commitment to bring practical information to the log home owner so that these structures can last at least a lifetime.
As part of our continuing commitment to log homeowners (and their buildings), we are starting a newsletter. Over the past few years we have updated our website to include much more "hard" information about how to maintain your log home. In each issue of our newsletter we are going to cover topics related to the maintenance of log homes. Many times the tools and techniques we use change and we want to tell you about that. We will feature a frequently asked question about maintaining or restoring log homes, and we will also feature a project we have done that details how we fix a particular problem.
Our website - http://www.restorelogs.com is full of practical and useful information about many aspects of log home maintenance and restoration. At times in this newsletter, we will refer you to the site for further information. We hope that this newsletter will be a link to the information you need to help maintain your log home. |
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A Frequently Asked Question I see an area on my log house where the logs are darkening and the log seems to be soft in this area. What is happening?
Basically what is happening is that moisture is building up behind the finish and causing the log to rot. Too much finish can form an impermeable layer on the surface of the log. Moisture (in the form of rain) is always making its way into the logs - most likely through a crack or check on the surface. Once inside the log, it soaks into the wood. Then when the rain stops, the moisture tries to make its way out that crack again AND since the moisture has dissipated into the log's core - it is also trying to make its way out via the entire surface of the log. Now, the moisture content is high in the log. Read More...
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