Finnlife Lovisa Log Cabin

The Finnforest Lovisa Log Cabin: Attractive, Functional and Exciting!

The Finnlife Lovisa Log Cabin is a gorgeous cabin giving you an awesome amount of terraced area and a roomy space inside with even more internal room offering you more options and the scope to rearrange and improve.

Like all log cabins in the Finnlife range it is constructed using top quality Scandinavian White softwood. This comes from sustainable forests which are well managed, and where industry and the wildlife are harmonious.

One of only two log cabins (the
Finnlife Helsinki being the other) that features an upstairs storage area accessable via a ladder. Use it as a storage space, use it as a hideaway, the choice is yours!

Well illustrated, step-by-step plans are supplied with your cabin making assembly more simple and more straightforward. The doors and windows come fully glazed making life easier for you. The wood is packed in protective plastic and comes packaged in the correct order for assembly, saving you time.

Why buy the Finnlife Lovisa Log Cabin

* Very well structured
* Storage Space
* Gorgeous features
* Easy to convert Sauna Space
* Upstairs room
* Front terrace
* Fully Glazed windows
* Spacious Interior

What is the building used for:

FEATURES

* Made from Scandinavian White softwood
* 45mm wall logs
* Timber joists
* Pre-cut floor & roof boards
* Roof shingles
* Ready made, fully glazed doors
* Reinforced corners and pre-cut wall battens
* All necessary fixtures and fittings
* Illustrated step-by-step instruction manual
* Outside terrace
* Upstairs space accessed by ladder

DIMENSIONS

Internal: 5.64m x 3.63m (18ft 6in x 11ft 11in)
External: 5.90m x 5.94m (19ft 3in x 19ft 5in)
Total Internal Area: 20.48m² (220 ft²)
Total External Area: 30.52m² (329 ft²)
Ridge Height: 3.40m (11ft 2in")

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Construct a Finnlife Log Cabin at Home

The lounging summertime afternoons might be calling, but don’t rush to erect yourFinnlife Log Cabin. Allow the time to get to know how it is constructed, and you will enjoy many years of trouble-free pleasure. No carpentry knowledge are needed. Everyone can erect a Finnlife Log Cabin, although some jobs may require more than one pair of hands. Construction times will vary dependant on your experience and the number of people who help you. Of course you don’t need to do it without any help!

You could show this text to a carpenter then relax until he presents you with the keys to your brand new Finnlife Log Cabin. But, whosoever gets the cabin built, the initial step is to get to know these instructions. The plan is to be disciplined and to foresee the work ahead. Although Finnlife log cabins share many options in common, each model style is exceptional. This set of overall instructions cover the basics of log cabin construction and are applicable to all Finnlife cabins.

For features that are unique to your Finnlife Cabin – such as 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 may be different a slight amount from those found here.

Concrete option: Get rid of organic matter before you start work on the foundations. Concrete foundations should always be the accurate base size stated in the Parts List and Plans instructions to lessen the amount of water that the base will carry. It is suggested that the concrete base be 6 inches thick.

Foundations and preparation: You are able to build your Finnlife Cabin on foundations of concrete or on compressed gravel. Whichever option you make, a solid and level base is important. Time spent on the foundations is well invested. An uneven or unstable base may well detract from the end outcome of the Finnlife Cabin. Doors and windows will not fit exactly, walls may stoop and joints may not fit together.

Before you start to construct you should check that you have a complete set of parts. Tick 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 shown on the packing label of the transit packaging. As you check every part lay them out on the ground around the site of the log cabin. Put every part close to where it will be used. Laying out helps you see how the Finnlife Cabin is built and it means that parts are available to hand when you need them. You can use the Building Plans and Parts List as a scheme to what goes where. Be wary not to lay parts too close to the Finnlife Cabin footprint. Give yourself sufficient room to work in.

Lay out the four sides of the door frame on a dirt-free 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 identical. Place the one with the Lock RECESS AT THE TOP AND BOTTOM. Make sure that the door cills go behind the doors. Slot the joints together loosely and check THAT YOU CAN STILL OPEN THE DOORS prior to proceeding.

Wall boards have been machined for a perfect fit. Before you use a wall board, it’s a good idea to running a stiff-bristled brush along the grooves and poking the bristles into the joints to remove any stray cutdust. Dust-free joints make a better fit. Walls are built by laying wall boards in alternate layers at right angles to each other. Now move the position of the underlying, furthest floor beams. Slide them in a touch so that they do not extend externally past the edge of the wall, clear on the interior face of the wallboard. The adjustment creates a lip on which the log cabin floorboards will eventually rest.

Persist with laying wall boards according 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 Finnlife Log Cabin are longer. The lengths increase iteratively to offer support to an overhanging canopy. Lay angled gable boards sequentially beginning with the length-most. Take care with the alignment of the angled gable boards. The sloping 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 sloping ends of the gable boards.

Constructing the gable ends shows a succession of slots for the roof beams. As every slot appears, tap in a roof beam. Make sure that the angled side of each roof beam lies flush 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. 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 flush, then secure by nailing from either side. Fix the wall board extension pieces to the ends of the topmost wall boards in the same way.

Lay ridge shingles precisely over the ridge without creasing. Start from the front of the Finnlife Log Cabin by putting 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. Fix by driving two clout nails through the black bitumen on either side of the roof ridge. Lay the second and each and every 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 placed the final ridge shingle when there is no black bitumen showing after you have trimmed it flush with the rear gable. Nail it to secure.

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Finn-Life Lovisa Log Cabin

Finnlife Lovisa Log Cabin

Construct a Finnlife Log Cabin at Home

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