Finnlife Mokki Log Cabin

The Finnforest Mokki Log Cabin can be a spacious and light summber cabin/shed housing a pair of doors and nice large window, allowing for an ideal and never-resented extra sitting room;

Finnforest cabins are manufactured employing the best quality softwood from Scandinavian sustainable forests which are managed with a conscience and there is a harmonious existence between wildlife and industry. It's alternate layering of the wall logs allows for a rigid building - a standard of excellence unique to Finnlife Log Cabins.

Clearl and well drawn, step-by-step instructions come with your cabin making assembly easier and more straightforward. The doors and windows come fully glazed. The wood is packed in protective plastic and comes packaged in the correct order for assembly, which will save you time.

FEATURES

* Made from Scandinavian White softwood
* 28mm wall logs
* Timber joists
* Pre-cut floor & roof boards
* Roof shingles
* Ready made, fully glazed doors
* Reinforced corners and wall battens
* All necessary fixtures and fittings
* Illustrated instructions

DIMENSIONS

Internal: 3.54m x 2.70m (11ft 7in)
External: 3.80m x 2.96m (12ft 5in x 9ft 8in)
Internal Area: 9.56m² (103 ft²)
External Area: 11.25m² (121 ft²)
Ridge Height: 2.51m (8'3")
It isrecommend that a concrete base is used and the cabin walls are approximately 35mm off the ground. The floor has floor joists which are pressure treated.

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Building a Finnlife Mokki Log Cabin

Lovely, lazy summer afternoons might be coming, but don’t rush to build your Finnlife Log Cabin. Spend the time to understand how it is put together, and you’ll savour many years of trouble-free pleasure. No construction knowledge are required. Everyone can build a Finnlife Mokki log cabin, although some tasks may require more than one pair of hands. Build times will vary depending on your skills and the number of people who help you. Of course you don’t have to do it without any help!

You might present this document to a professional builder then sit back until he delivers the keys to your completed Finnlife Log Cabin. However, no matter who completes the work, the initial step is to get to know these instructions. The trick is to be disciplined and to foresee the work ahead. Though Finnlife log cabins share many options in common, each model style is exceptional. This set of general instructions cover the basics of log cabin construction and apply to all Finnlife cabins.

For features that are unique to your own Finnlife Log Cabin – such as dimensions, component numbers, building plans and component lists – you should refer to the individual Building Plans and Parts List. If you are building cabins Finnlife Helppo, Finnlife Helsinki, Finnlife Joki, Finnlife Kesa, Finnlife Pori, Finnlife Seita and Finnlife Valo be aware that certain instructions mayalter slightly from those found here.

Gravel option: Remove all organic debris prior to starting work on the foundations. Foundations should always be laid larger than the footprint of your Finnlife Log Cabin – 300mm wider in every direction and 6” thick when using compressed type gravel. For compressed gravel foundations you should use retaining boards to keep the gravel in place and compressed.

Before you start to build you should make sure that you have a complete set of components. Check off each component against the component list in the Building Plans and Parts List as you remove it from the transit packaging. In the unlikely event that there is a missing component or that a component has been broken in transit get in touch with the distributor, stating the Finnlife Log Cabin[/LINK reference number displayed on the packing label of the transit packaging. As you check each component put them out on the ground around the site of the log cabin. Set each component close to where it will be used. Laying out helps you visualize how the Finnlife Log Cabin goes together and it means that components are available to hand when you need them. You can use the Building Plans and Parts List as a guide to what goes where. Be wary not to put components too close to the Finnlife Log Cabin footprint. Give yourself ample room to work in.

Place out the four sides of the door frame on a clean and level surface so that the doors open outwards. Loosely place them to match the complete frame. The top and bottom jambs are not quite matching. Place the one with the Lock RECESS AT THE TOP AND BOTTOM. Ensure that the door cills go behind the doors. Slot the joints together loosely and make sure THAT YOU CAN STILL OPEN THE DOORS prior to proceeding.

Take the frame apart again and squeeze PVA adhesive into the joints at the end of each frame piece. Press the sides together tightly. Make Sure that the frame is square by measuring the cross-diagonals. Wipe away all excess adhesive from the frame. Use a damp cloth and rinse it out thoroughly between wipes to prevent adhesive smearing over the frame. When you are happy that the frame is square, secure all corners with the screws provided.

Continue laying wall boards according to the layout of the Building Plans and Parts List you will have received with your order. The ending few layers of side wall boards in some cabins are longer. The lengths increase in steps to offer support to an overhanging canopy. Place angled gable boards in sequence starting with the longest. Take care with the alignment of the angled gable boards. The sloped roof line should be symmetrical and even at both gable ends. Use nails at either end to fix each layer of gable boards to the layer below. Hammer nails in at an angle through the sloped ends of the gable boards.

Building up the gable ends highlights a succession of gaps for the roof beams. As each gap appears, tap in a roof beam. Ensure that the angled side of each roof beam lies flushed with the angle of the gable. Nail through into the gable boards to secure. Tap the ridge beam into place at the apex of the gable ends. Secure by nailing into the uppermost gable board. Slide ridge and roof beam extension pieces on top of the exposed ends of the beams at both ends of the cabin. Make sure that the upper surfaces of the beams and the extension pieces are flushed, then secure by nailing from each side. Fix the wall board extension pieces to the ends of the topmost wall boards in the same way.

Place ridge shingles precisely over the ridge without creasing. Begin from the front of the cabin by putting a ridge shingle evenly across the roof ridge so that the tip of the green edge is flushed with the leading edge of the roof boards. Secure by driving two clout nails through the black bitumen on either side of the roof ridge. Place the second and subsequent ridge shingles so that the green half completely covers the bitumen of the preceding shingle. In each case, drive clout nails through the black bitumen to secure. You will have laid the ending ridge shingle when there is no black bitumen showing after you have trimmed it flushed with the rear gable. Nail it to secure.

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