- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: The Countryman Press; illustrated edition edition (Oct 28 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0881505854
- ISBN-13: 978-0881505856
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.8 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 612 g
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#392,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #90 in Books > Home & Garden > How-to & Home Improvements > Home Repair
- #98 in Books > Home & Garden > Small Homes & Cottages
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America has hundreds of thousands of log homes from the Great Lakes region to the West, from the Great North Woods to the Deep South. Indeed, several national magazines cater to the log home crowd for design and decorating ideas. This title offers a guide to the unique maintenance issues these homes present. Many log home owners do further damage to their expensive home by incorrectly treating their problems. With detailed, full-colour photographs and clear instructions, this guide should help you identify, diagnose and resolve problems ranging from dry-rot to carpenter ants.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Wide Ranging and Helpful Advice, July 27 2006
By Robert W. Chambers "author and builder" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Log Home Maintenance Guide (Paperback)
Gary Schroeder has written a book that will be a goldmine of information for anyone who owns a log home that is more than a few years old. Plenty of practical advice for caring for, restoring, and fixing old log homes. He covers a large variety of topics: log home finishes and finish problems and repair, sanding versus waterblasting versus sandblasting, chinking repair and replacement, insect damage, decay . . the list goes on. Amply illustrated, plenty of color, vivid diagrams. And Gary knows his stuff--he also owns Schroeder Log Home Supply, one of the US's top log home supply stores. If you want practical help with how to diagnose log home problems, and fix them, this is the place to start. You will not learn to be a professional chinking applicator by reading the section on chinking, this book is more of a "log home owner's manual," not an encylopedia of log restoration techniques and tools. (Just as a car's owner's manual does not tell you step by step how to rebuild the transmission.)Disclosure-- Gary's business sells my book, the Log Construction Manual , so he is a customer of mine. I am also a customer of his -- I buy some tools and supplies at Schroeder's. I would guess that for years he's been getting questions from log home owners about how to get rid of carpenter bees, repair decay, seal gaps, and so on, and he's collected his advice and experience in this volume. And that makes it worth owning.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
lots if good information, May 4 2009
By J. Zimmerman - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Log Home Maintenance Guide (Paperback)
a well written book, though it concentrates more on building and new structures than existing log cabins. Nonetheless I found it informative and thorough in its own right.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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excelent, Dec 20 2009
By Miljenko Varda - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Log Home Maintenance Guide (Paperback)
Usefully book for log home fans, with lots illustrations and useful tips & tricks for log home maintenance. It's pretty simple to understand and read and will help you a lot when you are considering to expand the lifespan and durability of your log home!!
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