I've been working on this for the past 6 weeks. The original part of the house you see here was built by our ancestors in the 1850's. When I acquired it from my Grandparents in 83 the logs were aged creosote and the chinking mortar/horsehair plaster in bad shape. I cleaned, painted and caulked for an entire summer. Fast forward to now and my younger sister has taken over ownership. Last fall she had the logs sandblasted. I have been prepping logs and chinking and the photo below shows the first coat of clear stain/sealer. Next step is caulking, apply chinking material, chink paint and another coat of sealer. I'm gonna be there a bit longer.
Looks like the cabins they deal with on the Barnwood Builders TV show. Good for you keeping it in good repair!
The bottom 2 are oak replacements from a barn down the road 3rd going up is poplar 4th up is poplar on right, oak on left 5th up is poplar on right, unsure of left. It's not oak, but very tight grain and hard like oak. 6th up is poplar 7 and 8 up is oak 9 to 13 up is poplar corners and diagonals appear to be white oak No chestnut, I was told by my Grandfather the chestnut was used for fence rails. It's been a PITA to get all the paint, primer and caulking removed. And I can still smell the creosote when removing the stuff I did a really good job applying 35 years ago.
Last log cabin rebuild I had a hand in was a relocation of an all wormy chestnut set of logs- so unbelievably beautiful. Wish I actively took pictures with a cellphone back in 2006.
This is the addition from 1930's. Our Grandfather acquired the oak logs when he was working on building Couch Road on Amberson Ridge. All the logs were sawn about a quarter mile up the holler. It took him several years to do the mortise and tenon work. By that time his family had 8 kids and he was runnin out of room.
Awesome log house. You have any pics to share of the inside PA Mountain Man ? We love old log homes. We want to put a log addition on the back of our 1840 stone farm house. Found a company that can make new logs that look old and use heavy timber framing. I would have to do all the finish work on the inside. Also looking to find an old log home that has been saved and dismantled. As my dad says, just need time and money.
Yeah. We want it to look as though its from mid 1800s. Though we do have siding on a small bedroom addition and where they built the second level on the stone.
I found this while researching Preservation Brief 26: The Preservation and Repair of Historic Log Buildings
Awesome looking cabin, would love to see some inside pics. The stories that cabin could tell. You guys done a awesome restoration job.
Making progress. Front is almost done. Still have to finish the chink painting. This is from about 1960
