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maintenance and upkeep

Before You Stain Your Log Home’s Exterior: 4 Important Steps

Your log home is built, the weather is right, and now it's time for the exterior of your log home to be stained. For the record, they say that the best time to stain a log home is when the logs have a moisture content less than 19%. Here are the 4 necessary steps prior to staining a log home.

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Log Home Insurance: Little-Known Facts About Insuring A Log Home

It's a fact, log home insurance is typically 20% more than insurance for the same size non-log home. Worse yet, many insurance companies charging a 25% to 50% surcharge for a log home. Here's our experience getting log home insurance, plus a number of log home insurance tips to help you get started.

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How To Cover Scratches On Composite Decks & Patios

If you have a composite deck or patio... over time, scratches are practically inevitable. For the most part, 'routine' scratches won't even be noticeable, but it's the deeper scratches that you'll probably want to cover up.

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How To Fill Nail Holes In Wood… And Log Walls

Blemishes and nail holes in wood trim and log walls are two things that most log home owners are going to want to 'hide' at some point -- especially if you're trying to sell your log cabin or log home.

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Mother Nature: A Log Home’s Best Friend & Worst Enemy

I would venture to guess that those who buy (or build) log homes are typically people who have a greater appreciation for -- and involvement with -- the outdoors. There's just something about a rustic cabin-type abode that appeals to outdoorsy people. But did you ever stop to think that Mother Nature is both a log home owner's friend... and enemy?

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