The Hartman family inherited the estate after it had sat mostly vacant for six years. By the time they called us, mold had colonized the north and east walls behind failed chinking, two bottom-course logs on the north face were soft enough to compress by hand, and the stain had given up entirely on the west exposure.
The 18-day scope was the most we'd quoted the family and the least we could responsibly do. Days one through four: mold kill treatment and containment, full chinking removal, structural assessment. The two compromised logs came out on day five. Their replacements were hand-matched to the original diameter and grain pattern. Re-chinking ran over three days once the new logs dried.
The stain went on last: a two-coat restorative system that reconditioned the weathered wood before sealing it. The final walkthrough on day 18 was the first time any of the Hartmans had seen the property look the way it had in photographs from the 1990s.
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