How To Seal Your Bunkie

We recommend the following products to seal and weatherproof your bunkie:

  1. Perma-Chink Energy Seal
  2. Perma-Chink Log End Seal
  3. High Quality Log Cabin Stain

1. Perma-Chink Energy Seal

Perma-Chink Energy Seal is an excellent choice for sealing around the doors, windows and corner joints of your bunkie.

Unlike commonly used caulks, which look shiny and artificial (and don’t always adhere well to wood), Energy Seal has excellent adhesion and is textured to match the visual characteristics of wood. 

Energy Seal is easy to apply and accepts stain so the sealed joints become virtually invisible. It has a smooth, professional finish, virtually disappearing into the walls after it’s applied.

Tools and materials required for application
Caulking gun, water/spray bottle, towel/rags, Energy Seal, painters tape (optional), trowel (optional)

Recommended Locations To Apply

  • Sides and top of windows/doors
  • Top to bottom of each side of your dovetail corners (3 sides per corner of bunkie)
  • Horizontal seams around the dovetail corner
  • Along the roofline (gable ends and where the roof boards meet the side walls)

Learn How to Apply Perma-Chink Energy Seal (6 min video)

2. Perma-Chink Log End Seal

Perma-Chink Log End Seal is a clear finish designed to protect exposed log ends from the elements. The end grain of your wall logs are vulnerable to absorbing water, and can act like tiny straws, drawing excessive moisture into the wood. 

Log End Seal provides a durable, water-repellent barrier against sun, rain, snow, and ice. It applies white and will dry clear, showing the stain colour beneath.

Tools and materials required for application:
Paint brush or paint pad, Log End Seal

Recommended Locations To Apply
Cut ends (see video)

Learn How to Apply Perma-Chink Log End Seal (3 min Video)

3. Stain Your Bunkie

Staining is an important step in the process of sealing your bunkie. Staining helps to plug the pores of the wood, reducing moisture absorption and protecting the wood to keep it in tip top shape. Learn more about how to stain your bunkie.



Recommended Stains:

Perma-Chink: Widely available in the US and Canada. Available for purchase through us to be drop-shipped directly to your address. 

Sansin: A trusted Canadian option we’ve used for several years. Learn more at www.sansin.com.

Tools and materials required for application:

Paint brush, stain brush, or paint sprayer for exterior walls. Angled paint brush and painter’s tape for frames.


Recommended Locations To Apply

All exposed exterior wood. Stain can be applied over top of Perma-Chink Energy Seal.


Are you interested in Perma-Chink stains?

Lifeline Ultra-7 is the most durable exterior stain that Perma-Chink Systems has ever developed. Its transparent finish highlights the natural beauty of our premium grade spruce. We offer a variety of stain shades from Perma-Chink’s other stain lines using the formula for Ultra-7, so you can give your bunkie the best protection possible without limiting your shade options. Perma-Chink also highly recommends applying a clear top coat of Lifeline Advance, which is the second component in their exterior wall finish system.

See shade options below.

Note: Colour chips are representative but will vary when applied to spruce. The number of coats will also affect the final shade. We recommend requesting stain samples before making a purchase.

These bunkies were stained using using 1 coat of Perma-Chink Accents’ shade Barn Red

cabana bunkie

Our factory model Cabana bunkie was stained using 2 coats of Perma-Chink Ultra-2’s shade Driftwood and Ultra-7’s shade Eucalyptus for the door and window frames, plus 1 coat of Perma-Chink’s Satin Lifeline Advance top coat.

What We Recommend For Your Bunkie

  1. Energy Seal: 6 – 24 tubes, depending on your kit size
  2. Log End Seal: 0.5 – 1 Gallon, depending on the number of bunkies
  3. Stain: 1-4 Gallons per bunkie, depending on your kit size

Application Recommendation

1. Energy Seal
2. High-End Log Home Stain
3. Log End Seal
4. Lifeline Advance topcoat

How To Order

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Once you pay, your order will be placed and shipped to the address of your choice.

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Have questions? We are happy to help. Please call us at 1-866-428-6543 or email us at [email protected]