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Welcome to Western Log Home and Cabin Restoration's site. I hope to have you return often as we add vital information for your log home's restoration and continued maintenance. . Visit our supplier link to Perma-chink™ products.

Recently completed log home restoration job using Permachink LIFELINE ULTRA-2 natural stain. Before and after restoration shots.

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Restorer in front of a recent West Coast Log home Restoration project.

Link to Log end replacement

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Recent completed job using Permachink Ultra II Autumn gold

 

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About Cabin Life Magazine


Whether it's cabin, cottage, lakehome or lodge, Cabin Life magazine captures the essence of the vacation home lifestyle.

A breath of fresh air, award-winning Cabin Life gives readers great ideas, information and inspiration for their vacation homes. Cabin Life is designed for the reader - anyone who loves their getaway or the idea of having one.

Now entering its sixth year of publication, Cabin Life has enjoyed rapid growth and strong reader loyalty across the US. Cabin Life recently expanded to 8 issues/year due to reader demand. Cabin Life is unique because it is both a shelter and a lifestyle publication - and also because it appeals to both men & women.

Cabin Life has earned many awards, including 2 of the coveted Gold Eddie Awards for Editorial Excellence. Other awards include an Ozzie for Design Excellence, 2 Gold Ink Awards, 14 Gold MMPA Awards, and more.

Cabin Life is owned by Fladmark Publishing, an independent publishing company that takes pride in publishing high quality magazines with particular emphasis on editorial excellence. Cabin Life staffers are veterans of the publishing industry who really love their cabins and cabin lifestyles.

We very much value our readers' thoughts, ideas and suggestions - please send us yours.

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Alaska Fishing Lodge - True Alaskan wilderness experience in the comfort of a Bristol Bay fishing lodge. Whether you fish or hunt we provide you with a variety of opportunities and campsites on the fabled Nushagak River.

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For more information go to www.Fishinglodges.net

Win a log cabin

Interesting site for those that want to see a log home being built.

Log cabin building web cam

Sources of Homeowner Insurance for Owners of Log Homes & Log Cabins

Canadian Log Home Restorationjozbun@gmail.com

Link of the week

Sources of Homeowner Insurance for Owners of Log Homes & Log Cabins
 

Wine Cellars Custom wine cellars and racks from Grotto Cellars. 

Article on Carpenter ants by Vince Palmere

Summer 2006 completed log home project in Oregon

Applying log end seal

Lignin (sometimes "lignen") is a chemical compound that is most commonly derived from wood and is an integral part of the cell walls of plants, especially in tracheids, xylem fibres and sclereids. It is one of most abundant organic compounds on earth after cellulose and chitin. Lignin makes up about one-quarter to one-third of the dry mass of wood.

Picture of sections of paint removed from a log home. Remember never paint your log home. Paint will trap moisture behind the log and lead to log rot. Be sure and do a lead paint test (available at Home Depot) before removing paint.

painted log cabin with  partially removed

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Visit the energy loss detectives at ProStar infrared log home inspections

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Log corner styles

Square notch & Swedish Cope Saddle Notch

Square notch log zipper Sewdish Cope Saddle Notch

Butt and Pass & Dovetail

Butt and Pass log zipper Dovetail log cabin zipper

 

View 58 pictures from the Tacoma Log Show

Choosing a log Home Article and more links on log homes.

New under our resources links are links for home builders, real estate agents and log homes that are for sale. Call to have your information added for free.

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This month's favorite link. The most beautiful log homes in the world!

 




Send us pictures of your log home for our picture gallery.
Send pictures to jozbun@gmail.com . We will add them to our log homes gallery. We are planning a picture gallery of log homes of Europe.

Log home events:
Free Perma-Chink Seminar & Workshop in Redmond, Washington. Call for next class (Sales Office) Call 800-548-1231.

Click here to be taken to pictures of the Tacoma show.

Visit www.logexpo.com




Contact us for your Log Wash™ bi-annual application and inspection. (877) 542-3824

Bugs that eat logs: Powder Post Beetles, Old house borers, Carpenter ants

Urban Pest Control
Research center

Tips for making your Log Home, lodge or cabin stain last

According to the "Log Home Living Institutes's" most recent construction report, there were 26,647 log homes built in the United States in 2003, part of more than 500,000 such homes existing in the United States.

Remember to stay on a regular maintenance program, it's cost-effective to log wash (Permachink product) your home twice a year in the long run.

Call us today for all your exterior wood restoration needs. Call 877-542-3824. We are the Northwest premier wood restoration specialist.

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