Red painted cabin in Vasterbotten

The log cabin, built in the 1880s, is surrounded by forest along a gravel road in the small village of Daglösten, between Bureå and Lövånger in Västerbotten. Originally a small homestead with a few animals, a potato field, a cornfield and a forest, it is now a summer cottage to look forward to!

The last time the cottage was painted in 2011 it was with sludge paint, when it was time to paint again in 2019, the choice fell on red tar to better cope with the severe and snowy winters in Västerbotten.

– “We painted during June and July,” say Anna Rosenkvist and Christer Ågärd, “the weather was mostly sunny and dry with breaks almost every day. The walls were brushed with a piasava broom and steel brush, we cleared away some old moss between the timber and filled the cavities with tarred lime wood. The walls on the south sides sucked a lot of paint and we had to paint these three rounds.

The paint consumption on the south sides was high at 1.2-1.3m2/liter. The end wood on the knots was very porous and almost unraveled, so here too a lot of paint was used. Anna and Christer say that mosquitoes and other insects stayed at a distance while they were painting with Red Pine. Which is a big plus for everyone in Norrland!