Yeah, some friends of mine with a very large contemporary log home have had to have it all re-chinked due to bugs getting in. Also, because of exposed beams, there is no insulation between the floors, there’s not much auditory privacy. You have to go for a walk outside, say, to have a private conversation on a cell phone.
It’s still a wonderful house in an historic farming area famous for its revolutionary and Civil War bona fides.
Mine is pre-revolutionary.
The only “update” they ever did was to blow that ancient skeevy paper “insulation” in between the old log walls and the “new” lath and cow hair/mud “plaster” walls.
When we tore that stuff off, a mummified rat fell out of one wall.
I wish now that I had kept it.
Yay.
:D