Every log structure unavoidably shifts, settles, expands, and contracts both as the home ages and as the atmospheric conditions such as humidity and temperature fluctuate. This results in gaps, checks, and openings to varying extents. Any openings are virtual highways for insects, rodents, and moisture to enter your home. Unfortunately, these factors will compromise the integrity of your home’s logs. Energy efficiency is also very important, and we want to keep the extreme temperatures outside where they belong.

Chinking, when properly applied by the skilled professionals at The Log Home Guy, can seal your home’s vulnerabilities, ensuring that nothing that belongs outside can make its way inside and vice versa! Even for houses with fewer visible gaps, homeowners will notice a marked difference in comfort and energy efficiency after chinking is applied.

These savings and benefits are long-lasting, especially when considering that once completed professionally using quality products, chinking lasts for many years. There are different colours of chinking to choose from. The chinking product that we apply is of the best quality, and expands and contracts with the natural movements of the logs. Gone are the days of using mud and straw to chink homes!

The beauty of chinking is something that we hear many customers comment on as being their favourite part of their home’s new look. Some people choose a chinking colour to match the log colour, and some like it to contrast. This is a very personal choice, but we help you know your options.