So we spent a lot of time last weekend trying to decide what stain and shingles to select. Another couple of those choices where the Regis Philbin in you mind keeps saying "Is that your final answer?". The sort of things that you really can't change after it's done. Given that the shingles are rated for 40 years, apart from a forest fire, I'm pretty sure they won't change in my lifetime. And sanding stain out of logs....well lets just say life is too short.
So we would stay safe, stick with a natural stain and a match it with a basic shingle. After all how many shingle colors are out there. I thought they were all basically black....
Sikkens Stain makes 15 different colors of log stain, and BP makes about 15 different shingle colors. Now I'm no engineer; wait maybe I am ....I seem to recall a lot of school way back....anyway; that 15x15 = 225 different combinations.
As I said, we started out with the basis that we would go pretty natural on the color (see #078 below), basically clear. But after having a look at the choices we landed on the much darker teak color (085). Now to me, this is not particularly material. I figure it will look fine. After all there doesn't look like that much difference in the two swatches below. But take that square inch and put it on 4000 sqare feet of cedar and fir and its no longer a subtle change. Still, I've convinced myself that it will be fine. Just a matter of matching it with a shingle....
Again, the color swatches are a bit misleading, and when you spread it over 1400 square feet of roof, it is a different story. Regardless, we are sticking with the Boreal Green and keeping our fingers crossed it doesn't look too bad.
http://www.bpcan.com/products.aspx?f=1&cat=1&id=215
Just have to back fill, and start with the logs.
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