Margaret's grandfather built the homestead in 1979 from logs he milled on the property. When she inherited it, the house had gone 15 years without meaningful maintenance. Rot had established itself at two corner posts and along the bottom course on the north wall. Carpenter insects had been working the south gable for years. The chinking had failed completely in several sections, and two windows were effectively unsealed.
Twenty-six days is the longest job we run. The scope was documented fully before we started: rot removal and epoxy consolidation on the corner posts, replacement of seven bottom-course logs on the north wall, borate treatment throughout the insect-damaged sections, full chinking removal and replacement, window reseal, and a two-coat full-exterior stain. Margaret was shown the condition of every affected log before and after treatment.
The final day, Margaret drove up the long driveway and sat in her car for several minutes before getting out. The homestead, built by her grandfather from trees on that same land, looked the way it had in photographs from the 1980s. We've been back for the year-one follow-up. Everything is holding.
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