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Refinishing Log Home — Full service or à la carte… you choose.

We are refinishing a log home near Danbury, Wisconsin this week. Blasting is one of the steps to refinishing and we blast about 40 homes a year.

Sometimes we come in and do everything, which includes blasting, treating the logs with a borate solution, chinking, filling checks, doing log replacement and staining. This is what we call “whole house” jobs or full service.

refinishing log home

You can see a bit of the before and after blasting.

On this home, after we did the blasting, we applied a borate treatment, chinked around the windows and doors and finally, we re-stained the logs and trim. Basically a full service job.

On other jobs, we may come in and do only rotten log replacement or only do the blasting and borate treatment.

For customers who are more inclined to do some of there own maintenance themselves, this can be a good option. In these cases, we work with the owner to help him/her choose the right stain.  We can even connect them with suppliers of the stains who can drop ship right to their door. Click here to learn more about choosing the right stain.

Whether it is a full service/whole house project or an à la carte project, we can help with log home refinishing.  We work with our clients to determine how they are most comfortable getting the job done and then… we get it done right.

Check out our blasting video to get an idea of how it is done.

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Log home maintenance – Another story from on the road

Remembering George “Buzz” Geist

They say it is a small world. Well, the world of log homeowners is even smaller.  And the world of owners whose log homes have been revitalized by Edmunds and Company Log Home Restorations is smaller yet.  Back in 2007, Dave Geist and I were standing together on the banks of the Encampment River on the North Shore of Lake Superior, going over details of the job we were on.  Dave was the contractor overseeing the restoration we were doing in this historic compound of privately owned log cabins, nestled in the ancient rock formations and large trees near where the river empties into the lake.

Over the constant roar of the river, I heard Dave ask,

“We might have something in common.  Do you have a fellow named Blaise working for your company? I hear he is dating my pediatrician’s daughter.”
“Yes I do. Actually he is my oldest son. But doesn’t your children’s physician live in Northfield, MN? That’s a long way from here.”
“We live there in the winter. My wife teaches at St. Olaf College.”

That was a coincidence.  And that it should even come up in conversation was more unlikely. By the way, my son went on to marry that fine young woman, the daughter of the woman who is a pediatrician in Northfield. There was something else that I couldn’t put my finger on.  Dave’s last name seemed familiar.  When I mentioned the exchange to my boss, Matt Edmunds, he told me that Dave Geist was the son of a former client of ours, Buzz Geist.  Now this was another coincidence. (more…)