We’re having quite a bit of work done to our cabin this year, including blasting off the old stain (which was really more like brown paint), replacing the old caulking (tee-hee!), and re-staining the cabin.

The first step, the blasting of the cabin with abrasive media (glass and sand) to remove the old stain, went pretty good. The next step was the remove all the old caulking and apply new chinking. We hired a local company that was recommended to us.

This is what log cabin chinking should look like if done by a professional (which we hired).

These are samples of what we actually got (I darkened the image to emphasize the blobs of chinking that were shmeared like so much cream cheese on our cabin).

Seriously, this looks like a toddler was allowed to play with the chinking material and make finger art on our house.

The other big problem is that they didn’t remove all the old caulking before applying the new chinking, which the instructions on the chinking product container explicitly says MUST BE DONE. This effectively voids the warranty if the product fails in the next 10 years or so!

The caulking they did remove was the stuff that was easily removed by hand and then discarded on the ground, where it remained until they left.

Ugh!