Our staining our log home project has evolved into a replacing some logs project after demolishing the sketchy balcony that came with the house and discovering a bunch of rot.
Frankly, I'm astonished that it hadn't collapsed out from under me when I was shoveling snow off of it this past winter. Behind the ledger that tied the balcony to the house was a mess of pressure treated lumber scabbed into a cavity in the logs formed by rot, none of it well-fastened or fastened into truly sound wood.