Stains and Finishes For Your Walls in Your Log Home
Maybe when you have just bought a log home for yourself you have no idea as to why you need to stain your log home every now and then. Therefore is it important that you find out how vital it is to stain the walls of your log home. The walls need to be stained not only when the home is built but also during the period of maintenance.
Now what staining does is that it keeps the natural color of the wood intact and this gives the home a great and newly look. But staining also helps in sealing the wood. And therefore the wood gets protected from the moisture in the air. Any kind of damage to the wood of your home is thus prevented by staining whether for now or for the future.
You should know now that there is a difference between interior and exterior stains. Exterior staining contains fungicide as well as mildicide. But this type of staining is not good for the interior part of the log home. The salesperson of the stains will help you out in deciding which one is for exterior use and which one is for interior parts. This is important as exterior stains used in the interior walls will cause instability.
As the logs tend to shrink and crack it is vitally important to get the walls stained within one year of the home being build. The stain on the walls will gradually wear off and so you should have a proper maintenance plan to keep these things in mind and in check.
When a person comes to your house the first thing that he or she will notice is always the exterior decoration and the finishing of the walls and therefore the staining of the exteriors walls is of course your main concern. The exterior finishing of your log home depends on a lot of factors and issues - the quality of the ingredients, the application of the stain and its preparation before that and of course the exposure it gets to the weather.
You can control some of these issues when you are planning the architecture of your log home. You should make sure that you have wide overhanging roofs and also porches on the sides of the home so that all this bears the roughest of weather - be it rain or wind. If you choose a stain with a higher pigmentation level then it will probably help the coloration of the exterior walls last much longer than otherwise. The decision that you take regarding the fact as to how often you will stain your home is also important.
To get a natural look the best thing that you can do is choose a stain that matches with the color of your wood and then you should apply the pigmented finish in order to even out the color. Finishing and staining of your log home is something that will give your home that definition and so you should give it a lot of importance.