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Hoodoo creek
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# Posted: 24 Aug 2025 01:57pm
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I'm thrifty all the way, and I'm trying to figure out how to make some form of chinking that is both durable, long lasting but also as inexpensive as possible. Any suggestions?
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Brettny
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# Posted: 25 Aug 2025 10:25am
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Mortar is prety cheap..however idk how you would really water proof it. Maybe use the same oil based stain as the logs?
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paulz
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# Posted: 25 Aug 2025 12:13pm
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Do like Proenneki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaBxxl6ZTTE
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 25 Aug 2025 01:20pm - Edited by: gcrank1
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Considering the reason for chinking and what it protects maybe cheaping out on it isn't the best idea?
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DRP
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# Posted: 25 Aug 2025 06:27pm - Edited by: DRP
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Slack lime (slaked burnt limestone) and sand is one old time way. Look up hot mix mortar.
Modern portland based mortar traps moisture and causes rot.
cob and daub with corn cobs and clay daubing was common here among the dirt poor, the clay is usually home to many bug tunnels tho, the lime is not bug friendly but breathes and heals.
An old tiehack near Wausau explained to me that quartered saplings nailed into the gaps was "chinking" and something smeared in a joint was "daubing".
The old man pulled up his pants leg at one point to show me a scar from an adze, a tool also known as "the devil's shin hoe".
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