Finnlife Suoja Log Cabin

The Finnlife Suoja Log Cabin is the many-function hall that never closes.

The Souja log cabin is from only the finest quality softwood from highly sustainable Scandinavian sustainable forests. It features wall logs in alternate layers together with windproof tongue and groove joints which give a weatherproof building.

Why buy the Finnforest Suoja Log Cabin?

* Made from precision-cut top quality Scandanavian White Softwood
* 44mm 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: 3.1m
External: 3.8m

Depth:
Internal: 5.07m
External: 5.36m

Ridge Height:
External: 2.7m

Area:
Internal: 17.81m²
External: 20.36m²

See your preffered stockists for extras such as underfloor heating.

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Build your Finnlife Suoja Log Cabin

Gorgeous, lounging summer days might be calling, but don’t hurry to construct your Finnlife Log Cabin. Spend the time to understand how it is put together, and you will enjoy many years of trouble-free pleasure. No specialist abilities are required. Anyone can erect a Finnlife Suoja log cabin, although some jobs may need more than one pair of hands. Build times will alter depending on your experience and the number of people who help you. Of course you don’t need to do it alone!

You could show this document to a handyman then sit back until he hands over the keys to your completed Finn Life Log Cabin. Having said that, whoever does the job, the initial stage is to get to know these instructions. The knack is to be orderly and to foresee the work ahead. Though Finnlife log cabins share many features in common, each model style is distinctive. This set of general instructions cover the basics of log cabin construction and apply to all Finn Forest cabins.

For features that are unique to your own Finn Life Log Cabin – such as exact dimensions, part numbers, building plans and part 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 maydiffer slightly from those found here.

Gravel option: Remove all organic debris prior to starting work on the foundations. Foundations must always be laid larger than the base of your Finn Life Log Cabin – 300mm wider in each 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 begin to erect you should make sure that you have a complete set of parts. Check off every part against the part 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 part or that a part has been damaged in transit get in touch with the distributor, quoting the Finn Life Log Cabin reference number displayed on the packing label of the transit packaging. As you check every part set them out on the ground around the site of the log cabin. Place every part close to where it will be used. Laying out aids you see how the Finn Life Log Cabin goes together and it means that parts are available to hand when you need them. You can utilize the Building Plans and Parts List as a scheme to what goes where. Be wary not to set parts too close to the Finn Life Log Cabin footprint. Give yourself sufficient space to work in.

Set out the four sides of the door frame on a clean and level area so that the doors open outwards. Loosely arrange them to match the complete 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 make sure THAT YOU CAN STILL OPEN THE DOORS before moving on.

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 make sure 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 making sure that the strip lengths are about 50mm longer than the floor beams. When your Finn Life Log Cabin is complete you can then go back and remove away any excess polythene/DPC membrane showing. Check that floor beams are level and that the cross diagonals are equidistant. Equal 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 touching the underlying foundations.

Continue 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 give support to an overhanging canopy. Set angled gable boards in sequence starting with the longest. Take care with the alignment of the angled gable boards. The angled 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 angled ends of the gable boards.

Building up the gable ends indicates a succession of openings for the roof beams. As every opening appears, tap in a roof beam. Ensure that the angled side of each roof beam lies flush 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. Secure by nailing into the topmost gable board. Slide ridge and roof beam extension pieces over 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 flush, then fasten by nailing from either side. Fix the wall board extension pieces to the ends of the topmost wall boards in the same way.

Set ridge shingles carefully over the ridge without creasing. Begin 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 flush 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. 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 put the final ridge shingle when there is no black bitumen showing after you have trimmed it flush with the rear gable. Nail it to fasten.

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