Used Log Cabin

Yes I noticed it was down today. Might give them a ring tomorrow, have put down a £1500 deposit on the cabin but it's on CC.

 

I just called Nathan @ Frensham, all is fine. He said the server had gone down and they're changing from .co.uk to .com which hasn't worked out well.

 

Best way I think is to have standing shelves. But if you are going to screw shelves into the 44mm walls, I'd be tempted to screw in some thick ply first vertically (or a sheet) and screw shelves into that.

The 44mm timbers will move with the weather, the shelving is mostly a shear force but will exert a twisting force on what is a tongue and groove joint between timbers, not good.

 

Those curved cabins are nice but very expensive compared to the DF range. Those steel supports are actually to clamp the timbers together I think, have seen similar systems using internal timber battens from top to bottom. Not sure if they're really needed, mine doesn't come with it.

 

Looks like a good price given my 3.5 x 5.5m cabin is £3100 and has has one less window. Is it the style and size you want?

 

Try to get a discount.
They have added a fiver on from the website price.

 

Skinners don't have mine in their catalogue, but as all their cabins are from logcabins.lv they can get them shipped in to order. I would look at logcabins.lv choose the cabin you want then get a price. Better still, get a second price from Nathan at Frensham.

I don't like concrete bases, no where for water to go and everything gets wet and stays wet so rots as no ventilation. I'm constructing a timber sub frame on piers, see my project page http://community.screwfix.com/threads/die-lorelei-2017.187656/

 

If you go for a concrete base, then definitely no overhang otherwise water will splash back. I just don't like the idea of having a base where the pre-treated bearers have no chance of drying out if they get wet, which they almost certainly will to some extent. Would be OK to put a second set of bearers first, to lift the whole lot off, perpendicular to the supplied bearers that rest on top - that way air can get underneath to keep things dry.

 

Why not build your own? It would be much cheaper.