Like MOST log/wood vacation cabins anywheres, owners do NOT take care of them properly. The usual method is to spash some kind of preservative like Thompson's Waterseal or Behr clear protectorant on the wood and watch it turn black. That's because the UV rays from the sun are wood's worst enemy, with water and air next. Wood-eating organisms eat heartily and molds join them at the feast. The wood turns ugly colors and gets weaker and, well, rotten after a while. The same cabin in Nevada might last forever, but not in north Georgia where humidity, rainfall, and abundant sunshine make a primordial soup on the wood. Once we started to look on the web for info, we decided it was time to clean it up!

1. This is the front with logs blackened by wood-eating organisms, ugly:

2. This is a side shot of the same family of critters eating the wood:

3. All cracks were treated with borate to control organisms that dine on wood:

4. Stripping with ground corn-cob material makes for hard work:

5. Clean wood with all checks and cracks sealed, i'm tired:

7. Now complete with WeatherSeal Golden Honey finish: