Log Home Restoration in Cora, WY: 4 Jobs, Honest Prices
Log home restoration in Cora is ranch and river work on the upper Green, northwest of Pinedale. Properties out here are open, exposed and often made up of several log structures rather than a single house.
Log Care has restored log homes and outbuildings across western Wyoming since 2008. Assessments in Cora are free and done on site.
What Cora does to a log home
Wind with nothing to stop it
Open ground on the upper Green means constant wind, and wind drives rain and snow horizontally into checks and chinking joints. Windward joints fail first.
Hard winters, hard freeze-thaw
Sustained cold pushes trapped water deeper into the log and widens every check it touches. That is the mechanism behind most of the repair work out here.
High-elevation UV
Sunny elevations at this altitude run through a finish fast. A dark stain on a west wall can be chalking well before an owner expects it.
Several buildings per property
A main house, a bunkhouse, a barn and a shop are one mobilization if they are planned together. Out here, that is the difference that makes a project affordable.
The four jobs a Cora 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.
Cora and the towns around it
Cora is served with Pinedale, Bondurant, Hoback Ranches and our Jackson Hole territory. Every town is on the service areas page.
Log home restoration questions from Cora owners
How much does log home restoration cost in Cora?
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.
Can you quote a whole ranch at once?
Yes, and you should ask for it that way. We walk every structure, probe each one and price them individually inside a single scope. One mobilization across the property is far cheaper than treating buildings one at a time over several years.
How far do you travel?
We work from Teton Valley across western Wyoming and eastern Idaho, and Sublette County is part of that territory. The on-site assessment is free.
How often should a Cora 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.