New Home

We have a new home!!!! Now don't get all excited and get your panties in a wad. We still have the same home, we just made it look like new today. Today was the day of treating the outside of the house. For all of you who don't know we live in a log home and every 2-5 years you have to treat the logs if you want to keep them looking good and to last longer. If there is anyone reading this that wants to try to find the least possible fun thing to do on a Saturday, I highly recommend treating a log home. Here is a rundown of what we had to do: powerwash the whole house to get the dirt and mildew off, apply two coats of exterior wood toner/stain. The stain stuff is supposed to repel water, mildew and UV light which are all bad things for the logs. I applied the stuff with a sprayer and back-brushed it with a push broom. We finished the whole house today and part of the deck and it took about 7 hours. So, that leaves the rest of the deck and the shop to be completed hopefully tomorrow. The difference between before and after truly is amazing. I want to give a shout out to Cathy B. at work for letting me borrow her power washer.

Here are some pics.

This is before washing, the black is mildew stuff.


This is me applying the stain, the backpack held the sprayer.


Left is after applying stain and right is before. Amazing difference.


Here it is finished.