Finnlife Pori Log Cabin

There's room to swing a cat or two in the Finnlife Pori Log Cabin - room for a full extended pool cue - room enough to practice dancing - got kids? invite the whole class round for a birthday party!

The covered veranda offers almost as much space again. Don't ask a few friends over, ask them all - there'll still be room to spare.

Why buy the Finnforest Pori Log Cabin?

* Made from precision-cut top quality Scandanavian White Softwood
* 45mm wall logs - provides additional strength, insulation and resilience to cope with extended year-round use
* Timber joists
* Roof shingles
* Ready made, fully glazed doors
* Reinforced corners and wall battens
* All necessary fixtures and fittings
* Illustrated instructions

Dimensions:

Width:
Internal: 5.63m
External: 5.90m

Depth:
Internal: 3.63m
External: 5.39m

Ridge Height
External: 3.13m

Area:
Internal: 20.48m²
External: 31.82m²

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Construct yourself a Finnlife Pori Log Cabin

Gorgeous, lazy summer afternoons may be calling, but don’t rush to build your Finnlife Log Cabin. Spend the time to work out how it is constructed, and you’ll savour many years of trouble-free pleasure. No specialist abilities are needed. Everyone can erect a Finnlife Pori log cabin, although some tasks may need more than one pair of hands. Construction times will alter depending on your experience and the number of people helping. Obviously you don’t have to do it without any help!

You could show this text to a handyman then relax until he presents you with the keys to your finished Finn Life Log Cabin. Having said that, whoever completes the work, the first step is to get to know these instructions. The plan is to be orderly and to plan ahead. Though Finnlife log cabins share many features in common, each model style is exceptional. These overall instructions cover the basics of log cabin construction and are applicable to all Finn Forest cabins.

For items that are unique to your own Finn Life Log Cabin – such as dimensions, component numbers, building plans and component lists – you should refer to the separate 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: Get rid of all organic matter before you start work on the foundations. Foundations must always be laid larger than the base of your Finn Life Log Cabin – 300mm wider in all direction and 6” thick when using dense type gravel. For dense gravel foundations you should use retaining boards to keep the gravel in place and dense.

Before you start to erect you should ensure that you have a full set of components. Tick off every 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 damaged in transit get in touch with the distributor, quoting the Finn Life Log Cabin reference number shown on the packing label of the transit packaging. As you check off each component place them out on the ground around the site of the log cabin. Place every component close to where it will be used. Laying out helps you see how the Finn Life Log Cabin is built and it means that components are ready to hand when you need them. You can use the Building Plans and Parts List as a scheme to what goes where. Be careful not to place components too close to the Finn Life Log Cabin footprint. Give yourself adequate room to work in.

Set out the four sides of the door frame on a clean and level surface so that the doors open outwards. Loosely arrange them to match the finished frame. The top and bottom jambs are not quite the same. 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 ensure THAT YOU CAN STILL OPEN THE DOORS prior to proceeding.

Set out the floor beams at uniform intervals in line with the layout in the Building Plans and Parts List. Where the beams meet with interior or exterior walls ensure they lie directly beneath those walls, ensuring that there is a lip for the internal room floor boards.

Cut the polythene transit packaging (or a sheet of commercial damp-proof membrane) into strips roughly 12cm wide. Cut a pair of strips for each floor beam ensuring that the strip lengths are about 50mm longer than the floor beams. When your Finn Life Log Cabin is finished you can then go back and trim away any excess polythene/DPC membrane showing. Make Sure that floor beams are level and that the cross diagonals are equal. Equidistant cross-diagonals mean that your Finn Life Log Cabin is square. Set one damp-proof strip beneath each floor beam and one above. Make sure that no part of the floor beam is in direct contact with the underlying foundations.

Persist with laying wall boards in line with to the layout of the Building Plans and Parts List you will have received with your order. The final few layers of side wall boards in some cabins are longer. The lengths increase in steps to offer support to an overhanging canopy. Set angled gable boards sequentially 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 both 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.

Constructing the gable ends indicates a succession of slots for the roof beams. As every slot 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 fasten. Tap the ridge beam into place at the apex of the gable ends. Fix 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 fasten by nailing from each side. Fix the wall board extension pieces to the ends of the topmost wall boards in the same way.

Set ridge shingles precisely over the ridge without creasing. Start from the front of the cabin by placing 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. Fix by driving two clout nails through the black bitumen on either side of the roof ridge. Set 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 fasten. You will have placed the final ridge shingle when there is no black bitumen showing after you have trimmed it flushed with the rear gable. Nail it to fasten.

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