how much to have a log home chinked

[mark3885]

I'm about to start chinking my log home. How does a chinking service determine the price ? Is it by linear ft of chinking , by the job or by difficulty? I have about 2500 ft to chink on the outside and about 2700 ft on the inside. I have never chinked before , so I may have to bail out if it takes too long or is too difficult. I'm looking for a ball park figure. thanks

[rckclmbr428]

When we price chinking it's all if the above, some things we take into consideration, number of chink lines, width of the chink lines, how hard is it to get to ie is the home on a walk out basement where we will be 30+ feet in the air, what type of material synthetic vs. Mortar etc.

[panderson03]

to chink the inside and outside of our 36x36 garage using the LHBA method cost us $800.
for us to chink it using a sythetic product, it would have cost us approx $20,000

[rocklock]

I don't think you have a tightly pinned butt and pass log home. Hence how much chinking and how it is applied can't or should not be discussed in this forum.
In general our logs don' move. They shrink in relation to their centers. Hence the chinking lines open over time. If you do our method of chinking on shrinking logs it may crush the chinking. I just don't know.
Best pl luck.