By The care of a wooden house passes through 4 key steps that makes sure the reliability of your log home and a periodic maintenance on its exterior walls that are in contact with the environment and are those that suffer the passage of time, the sun and water, and to a lesser extent dust and wind. When you are carrying out a maintenance of a wooden house, you must perform the following 4 basic tasks;
- Create a new protective layer for the wood to return its moisture and original appearance.
- Restore doors and windows, repair cracks, adjusting and leveling.
- Repair possible water leaks in the wood.
- Detect the possible outbreaks of the woodworm or the other insects to prevent their spread. In case you think that you have woodworm or other wood insects, take a quick measure to terminate them.
To the fungus of the wood, also you have to pay attention since its appearance and early detection have solution with the maintenance and sanding of the house.
Painting for wood is the key to good maintenance of your log house.
From the previous 4 points, we can see that the last 3 are to restore, repair and detect as a result of the end of the life of the paint i.e. once the paint fulfills its life indicated by the manufacturer which is normally 4 to 5 years, it lets water pass through and causes water seepage as the paint begins to fall and crack and lets the insects and fungi enter the wood.
It is a major key to understand that paint has a life cycle and that can be seen accelerated due to the sun and water that degrades the properties of the paint.
Another very important point in the maintenance is to sand the whole house to remove the paint before repainting. Because the paint has expired, it should be removed with abrasive products as a circular sandpaper and apply new paint on the old one. The example that we always put is the change of oil of a car. When it reaches its useful life, remove it and we put a new oil, and here we did not consider the possibility of mixing the old oil with new one. In the painting for the house of wood, you have to keep the same thing in your mind and apply the paint.
