We professionally restore and preserve your log or cedar sided home's interior and exterior finish to bring back the home's natural look and feel.

We provide chinking, caulking and sealing to your home. Our process significantly reduces or eliminates drafts, insect incursion and will minimize winter time heat loss.

We specialize in log home Behr restoration jobs using industry standard techniques. We will put an end to the Behr nightmare you have been living so you can start enjoying your home again!

Fidalgo Restoration has extensive knowledge and experience restoring log and cedar sided homes back to their original look and feel. We pride ourselves in customer service and overall satisfaction of our clients. We understand the emotional and aesthetic ties to a log and cedar sided home... in fact; the owner of Fidalgo Restoration lives in a log home and understands the pride associated with log home ownership!

The process for restoring your home is a 5 step process:

Step 1: The most important and most overlooked step is wood surface preparation. Proper wood surface preparation includes blasting the exterior of the home using a ground up corn cob media, or using a chemical stripper to remove the failed finish on decks and roofs. Corn blasting uses a ground corn cob media with the consistency of fine light sand, but much lighter in weight. The corn media blasting technique is a wood restoration industry standard and provides the client with an environmentally safe and effective means of removing failed finishes from the wood surface. Corn blasting also removes fungus, dirt and wood discoloration in order to bring back the original look and feel of the wood. Upon completion of blasting, the entire surface area of the blasted wood is hand sanded using an orbital sander and 60 or 80 grit paper. This step is the most difficult and time consuming in the process!

Step 2: Protect the windows and doors from overspray. Mask and tape all the windows and doors to minimize overspray of preservative and stain. For decks and roofs, protect plants and vulnerable surfaces with plastic tarps.

Step 3: Preserve the wood. A 10% solution of a boron derived wood preservative called “borate” is applied using an airless sprayer. Borates have been used successfully for decades in New Zealand, and England as an anti-fungal (rot), insecticide and mildecide. This preservative has a powder consistency and is dissolved in water, then applied using an airless sprayer. The borate provides great protection and is a must for preserving your wood for many years!

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