Log Home Restoration in Hoback, WY: 4 Jobs, Honest Prices
Log home restoration in Hoback covers the homes around Hoback Junction and up the canyon where the Hoback River meets the Snake. River-corridor properties sit in humid air, in shade from canyon walls, and take wind funneled straight down the drainage.
Log Care is thirty minutes away and has restored log homes across Teton County since 2008. On-site assessments in Hoback are free.
What Hoback does to a log home
River humidity
Air near the water holds moisture, and walls near the water dry slower. Higher ambient humidity means finishes work harder and mildew shows up sooner on shaded elevations.
Canyon shade and canyon wind
Steep terrain shades some walls most of the day and funnels wind onto others. On the same building one elevation can be mildewing while another is chalking from UV.
Spring runoff and splash-back
Runoff season is hard on the bottom of a wall. Splash-back off decks, walks and gravel drives soaks the lowest courses year after year, and that is where we find most of the rot.
Older cabins along the corridor
Plenty of the log buildings down here have been added onto over decades. Where log meets framing, a deck ledger or a chimney is where water gets in, and those transitions get probed on every inspection.
The four jobs a Hoback log home needs
Media blasting · $3–$6 per sq ft
Strips failed stain, paint, mildew and gray UV-damaged fiber back to bare, bondable wood using recycled crushed glass, corn cob or walnut shell. New finish will not bond to gray fiber. Log home media blasting.
Log rot repair · $250 to $5,500
Priced by method, decided by a probe: borate treatment, epoxy consolidation, a Dutchman patch, half-log facing or a full log. Water is almost always the cause, so we fix the water too. Log home repair.
Staining and sealing · $1.40–$10 per sq ft
A breathable, penetrating stain goes on bare, sound wood within days of the blast, before UV can gray it again. Cost tracks prep, not paint. Log home staining.
Chinking and caulking · $12–$22 per linear ft
Failed material removed, joint prepped, backer rod installed, new chinking applied over a finished surface so it bonds. Done right it lasts twenty years or more. Chinking and caulking.
We also handle thermal imaging, log carpentry, house painting, pressure washing and window washing. Everything is on the services page.
Hoback and the towns around it
Hoback sits inside our Jackson Hole service area, along with Jackson, South Park, Bondurant, Hoback Ranches and Alpine. We also work Teton Valley and Star Valley. Every town is listed on the service areas page.
Log home restoration questions from Hoback owners
How much does log home restoration cost in Hoback?
Media blasting runs $3 to $6 per square foot of log surface, staining $1.40 to $10 per square foot depending on prep, a full re-chink $12 to $22 per linear foot, and rot repair from a $250 patch to $5,500 for a jacked sill log. Most whole-house projects land between $15,000 and $60,000. See log home restoration cost.
My cabin is close to the river. Does that change anything?
It changes the moisture load, not the method. Walls near water dry slower, so mildew and decay get more attention and the bottom courses get probed harder. The four jobs are the same, and so is the pricing.
Why does one wall look fine and another look terrible?
Exposure. In a canyon, one elevation can sit in shade and hold moisture while another takes hours of direct sun. That is why we price by wall rather than treating the whole house as one number.
How often should a Hoback log home be restained?
South and west walls every three to five years, north and east walls every five to eight. The quickest test is whether water still beads on the wall — when it soaks in, the repellent is spent. Blasting back to bare wood is typically needed every seven to ten years.