Wall Putty

You may want to revert to a building technology that was used hundreds of years ago called "chinking". Used in building log structures and withstands extreme climates. Several companies offer products and have sites you can access and order online.

An associate of mine has several buildings that suffer damage to stucco surfaces from customers vehicles that run into overheads and corners. He buys 5 gallon pails of the chinking material and swears by it. Premixed, easy to apply and several basic colors to choose from.

ièd love to know the name of thet paint, primer, filler, under-coat, sealer....chinker, what-ever it is

Thobe:

From the updated discussion and comments it appears that I should have been a little more precise in my answer to you about your "Wall Putty" question. Not knowing the substrates or service conditions your dealing with, it's a shot in the dark coming up with a material recommendation or a specification for you. And a Real Stretch to be offering a Brand Name at this point.

Kind of surprised with Red Pig being from the cold country where they have a lot of Log Homes that are probably hundreds of years old, and he doesn't know about chinking? Maybe he's joking with us?

Chinking is a generic name for a filler material applied to voids between the logs. I learned of it after accquiring mountain property in North Carolina with a friend of mine who is a Very Demanding [picky Civil guy]. After I did a little research, I turned the information over to my friend. He has spent a lot of time in riding herd on the GC. for a remodel and restoration of a large log home built in 1867 and is very impressed with the properties of the chinking product he specified. FYI the previous family we purchased the mountain from told use the original chinking from 1867 lasted until 1930 before they replaced it! That's "Sustainability" in my book.

I have some background with cementitious wall cladding's such as Stucco and EFIS system replacements and thought for whatever application you have, www.loghomestore.com might be a place to look. It has a pretty extensive header and drop down menu for problem solving. The product we bought for N.C. runs $175.00 for a five gallon pail, and if it last another 60+ years it will be worth every penny. Several companies having these type products also address the log/concrete foundation interface aspect.They have homes from direct oceanfront to high altitude for testimonials. My experience says if you can bond to these two dynamically different substrates with "Chinking", you just hit a home run.

More information about your project will enable the genuine participants on this forum to flood you with some brand names! Good Luck

thank you so much...ièd be checking out ur recomends

yes, some of the old logsters chinked with mosses mixed with clay. ièv been in trappers cabins...two story roughly 8x8, the dogs were fed below and housed for the night. cooking was on a inverted wash-tub with a knife carved door and a sliced out star shaped hole in the back...the tabs were bent up to hold a chimney pipe, 4 nch id.

the bed was wickerd saplings, moss small spruce bows.....these would be changed as they dried.

branches woud arc near the stove to dry clothing. the only window was a thin raw-hide.

this was one of many line cabins. his trail went back to the 1890ès, some of the cabins could not be easily found, but usually on a side-hill, sod roof, but genarally well built, some of the chinking, long gone,it was often re-chinked.

some norweigeen cabs, were so well shaved, theydidnèt require chinking.

an off shoot ...on the prairies, chinking was done with grass, moss clay and cow manure, put on quite dry and pounded in place, then smooyhed with a damp rag. sometimes wool was added for fibre and horse hair-mane and tail.

if ya got a lot of knott-holes in the rough planking. or the walls, wetted papers would freeze fast to a cold wall and at least keep ya warm.

i have an exterior stucco repair on hold- due to weather, so i was interested in yr comments.

thank-you much. keep chinking. ps often wood chips and saw-dust was used...but it sure depends on the use.