Grey logs,
back to
gold.
Failed stain and weathering lifted off log walls with crushed glass at low pressure — clean, even, bright timber ready to re-stain. Cypress Hills and Elkwater are forty minutes away.
Log homes & cabins · Southeast Alberta
From the yard.
Wood is the easiest thing to ruin
Logs have soft spring growth between the harder grain lines. Hit them with the wrong media at the wrong pressure and the soft bands erode faster than the hard ones — you get a corrugated, fuzzy surface that takes stain unevenly and looks eroded forever. It cannot be undone.
The right answer is recycled crushed glass at low pressure: silica-free, cuts stain and paint efficiently, and leaves the grain intact. For ornate or carved work we drop to walnut shell. We test an inconspicuous section on every single house before we commit.
Why blasting beats sanding here
- It reaches the profile. A sander rides the crown of every log and misses the cove. Media follows the shape.
- It is faster by an order of magnitude — days instead of weeks on a full home.
- No chemical strippers soaking into the timber or running into the garden.
- Even take-off, so the new stain lands uniform instead of blotchy over sanded-through patches.
Cypress Hills and Elkwater
The specialists who do this work travel in from Calgary and Edmonton and bill for the trip — industry guidance puts lodging and travel around $3,000 on a two-week job. Elkwater is a forty-minute drive for us. On a Cypress Hills cabin we are structurally cheaper than anyone competing for it, and we can take a weekend job that is not worth their float.
Send us a photo of it.
Text what you have got to 403-702-4435 and we will come back with a number.
Fastest way to a number: text a photo of what needs blasting to 403-702-4435.