Log homes?
I came back to this thread to thank everybody on SR.com who helped guide me through one of the most incredible times in the lives of my wife and I. Thank you! It's only fair that you know how the story of our huge blue roofed log house turned out.
After living in it for two years, it came down to a very tough decision - transfer to a new employer, accept a 25% pay-cut, and stay put in Texas, or accept a transfer back to south Mississippi at company expense and keep full salary with my original employer within the next 12 months.
After weighing everything, figuring in $500 a month for electricity in the summer and $100 a month for water, we figured we'd fix it up, sell, and move back to the coast to be closer to our kids and grandkids.
I got a couple of contractors to estimate the cost to refinish the exterior and seal the window frame leak: $10,000 - $20,000 . . . well there went the profits! But, no, my wife volunteered us to do it all ourselves and pocket the profits. I am not kidding. We were both pushing 60.
So, I bought a pressure washer, and a bunch sanders, 5 gallon cans of redwood stain and some long extension poles, rollers and brushes. For a solid year, every day when I finished work, I'd go to work on the house. My wife started on the garage. I'd pressure wash, we'd let it dry a couple of days, then she would start sanding. If the sanding required going up a ladder, well, that was on me!
The top pic shows my wife with sanded logs above, pressure washed logs below.
After the sanding came three coats of redwood stain. The bottom pic below shows me sanding above with just one coat at the bottom.
TO BE CONTINUED
I came back to this thread to thank everybody on SR.com who helped guide me through one of the most incredible times in the lives of my wife and I. Thank you! It's only fair that you know how the story of our huge blue roofed log house turned out.
After living in it for two years, it came down to a very tough decision - transfer to a new employer, accept a 25% pay-cut, and stay put in Texas, or accept a transfer back to south Mississippi at company expense and keep full salary with my original employer within the next 12 months.
After weighing everything, figuring in $500 a month for electricity in the summer and $100 a month for water, we figured we'd fix it up, sell, and move back to the coast to be closer to our kids and grandkids.
I got a couple of contractors to estimate the cost to refinish the exterior and seal the window frame leak: $10,000 - $20,000 . . . well there went the profits! But, no, my wife volunteered us to do it all ourselves and pocket the profits. I am not kidding. We were both pushing 60.
So, I bought a pressure washer, and a bunch sanders, 5 gallon cans of redwood stain and some long extension poles, rollers and brushes. For a solid year, every day when I finished work, I'd go to work on the house. My wife started on the garage. I'd pressure wash, we'd let it dry a couple of days, then she would start sanding. If the sanding required going up a ladder, well, that was on me!
The top pic shows my wife with sanded logs above, pressure washed logs below.
After the sanding came three coats of redwood stain. The bottom pic below shows me sanding above with just one coat at the bottom.
TO BE CONTINUED