We at West Coast Restoration, unfortunately, have been called to repair structural log restoration work that was improperly done by so-called restoration contractors who have failed. The problems that have occurred, just to name a few are Wet or green logs have been used and poor scribing on logs that leave gaps. These gaps, at [...]
We have come across over the years that log home foundations have failed for a number of reasons. Drainage around the foundation has undermined and caused the log structure to sink and eventually crack or break. We've seen some log structures that have been built directly on the ground or on stacked rocks. These are [...]
Hello all, Its getting to that time of year for all of you to walk around your log home and make a list of maintenance for spring. Things to look for would be if down spouts not draining properly, vegetation cut back one foot from log walls, cleaning of logs and a fresh application of stain [...]
Here is a log home that was involved in a real estate transaction and the seller covered up the rotted corners and didn't disclose it to the buyer. We went out and discovered the rot, 1 of 3 areas. The home was inspected by a stick frame inspector and these rotted areas were not found. [...]
This is a fire restoration job we completed. This entailed blasting the interior of the home to remove the char off the burnt logs. Since the fire happened 2 months prior to our restoration, the smoke had permeated in to the the logs. We set up ozone generators which took care of 90% of the [...]
Here is another cedar cabin that was built also in the 1800's. These old growth cedar logs were up to 3 feet in size. The bay window in the picture is 4 feet tall so you can see from the log joints how thick they are . The logs were split in half because of [...]
This cabin was built in the late 1800 out of old growth cedar. The corners are all dovetailed by hand using axes and other various hand tools. Our goal here is to replace 4 of the logs, re-chink inside and out and refinish the interior and exterior. We will also put in a foundation around [...]
This project we removed half of the log 2-feet from the stem wall. The construction of this home was built with logs being vertical in stead of horizontal. This caused the water to wick up at the bottom of the log and rot. we removed the rot from the bottom of the log and cut [...]
