Log Home Restoration in Bedford, WY: 4 Jobs, Honest Prices
Log home restoration in Bedford is ranch-country work in the middle of Star Valley. Properties out here tend to be working ones — a house, a shop, a barn, and outbuildings that have been standing a long time.
Log Care has restored log structures in this valley since 2008. Assessments in Bedford are free and done on site, and the scope comes back in writing so you can decide what gets done this year.
What Bedford does to a log home
Long afternoon sun
The valley’s north-south run puts hours of direct sun on west elevations. Those walls chalk first and set the schedule for the rest of the building.
Snow and roof runoff
Where a roof dumps onto a wall or a deck without a gutter, the logs beneath it stay wet through spring. Fixing the water is always cheaper than replacing the log.
Old structures with real value
Barns and outbuildings here are often older than the house and worth keeping. Borate treatment and epoxy consolidation save a lot of original log that a less careful crew would cut out.
Multiple buildings, one visit
A working property is several structures. Planning them together is the single biggest cost saving available to a Bedford owner.
The four jobs a Bedford 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.
Bedford and the towns around it
Bedford is part of our Star Valley service area, along with Afton, Thayne, Grover and Etna. We work north into Jackson Hole and west over the pass into Teton Valley. Every town is listed on the service areas page.
Log home restoration questions from Bedford owners
How much does log home restoration cost in Bedford?
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 an old barn be saved, or does it need replacing?
Usually saved. We price rot repair by method after probing: borate treatment runs $1.50 to $3 per square foot, epoxy consolidation $45 to $95 per linear foot, a Dutchman patch $250 to $700. Full replacement is the last option, not the first. See log home repair.
Do you work on outbuildings as well as the house?
Yes, and they should be quoted together. One mobilization covers the whole property, and outbuildings are usually the ones in worse shape because nobody has been looking at them.
How often should a Bedford 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.