The Log Home Maintenance Guide: A Field Guide for Identifying, Preventing, and Solving Problems [Paperback]

Gary Schroeder (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2003

The definitive guide to the unique maintenance issues faced by log home owners.

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. Now Gary Schroeder offers this world the first guide to the unique maintenance issues these homes present. Many log home owners do further damage to their expensive homes by incorrectly treating their problems. No more. With detailed full-color photos and clear instructions, The Log Home Maintenance Guide will help you identify, diagnose, and resolve problems ranging from dry rot to carpenter ants. The Log Home Maintenance Guide is an investment that will protect your investment. No home repair section should be without it.. 150 full-color photographs, 50 full-color illustrations

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About the Author

Gary Schroeder, a former forester, was for many years a builder of custom handcrafted log homes as well as a log home restoration contractor. Since 1986 he has been president of Schroeder Log Home Supply, Inc. He is the author of Muir's Original Log Home Guide Millennium Issue and The Log Home Maintenance Guide. He lives in Deer River, Minnesota.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Countryman Press (November 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881505854
• ISBN-13: 978-0881505856
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #391,371 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wide Ranging and Helpful Advice, July 27, 2006

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Robert W. Chambers "author and builder" (Wisconsin and New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Log Home Maintenance Guide: A Field Guide for Identifying, Preventing, and Solving Problems (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

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J. Zimmerman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Log Home Maintenance Guide: A Field Guide for Identifying, Preventing, and Solving Problems (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:

5.0 out of 5 stars excelent, December 20, 2009

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Miljenko Varda (Zagreb, Croatia) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Log Home Maintenance Guide: A Field Guide for Identifying, Preventing, and Solving Problems (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!!