Finnlife Helsinki Log Cabin

Whether you want to use your Finnlife Helsinki Log Cabin as a guest room, hobby hideaway, or personal library you'll find the Valo is more than up to the task. Once the door is closed you'll find yourself in a world of your own. The Finn Life Helsinki is about going back to basics: you, nature and the things you care for most.

The Finnlife Helsinki Log Cabin is the ultimate in log cabin design

Incredibly flexible, spacious and airy. If you have space restrictions then the Helsinki Log Cabin is the answer. The Helsinki is truly a castle in its own right, featuring 5 rooms.

A ladder leads up from the downstairs to an incredibly storage area upstairs. It’s a multiple-use space that will easily adapt to any of your needs; your teenagers may need a club room … your own outdoor office … even a little house in the garden. Such a flexible space can be rearranged should circumstances change.

The Helsinki Log Cabin will solve all your space problems in one go. There’s room for a business that can be run from home, entertain an endless string of guests, or even have a gym.
Why buy the Finnforest Helsinki Log Cabin?

* 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

* Felt shingle roof.

* Large cabin with 5 internal rooms.

* Incorporates decked terrace area.

* Separate handy loft area for storage.

* French doors and opening windows supplied with double glazed toughened glass.

* Size approx cabin external (H)358, ridge, (W)979, (D)514cm / (H)11ft 9in, (W)32ft, (D)16ft 10in.

* Size internal (H)328, ridge, (W)953, (D)398cm / (H)10ft 9in, (W)31ft 3in, (D)13ft 1in.

* Requires a quality timber treatment after assembly (treatment not included).

* Supplied in kit form containing all the components and instructions required for self assembly.

* Manufactured from Scandinavian whitewood.

* 44mm tongue and groove wall boarding provides additional strength, insulation and resilience to cope with extended year round use.

* Traditional timber tongue and groove ceiling and flooring.

* Wind block system ensures a tight wind-proof seal.

DIMENSIONS
Internal External
Width 9.53m 9.79m
Depth 3.98m 5.15m
Ridge Height - 3.56m
Area 29.97msq 50.39msq

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Building your Finnlife Helsinki Log Cabin

Sumptuous, slow sunshining evenings might be coming, but don’t hurry to erect your Finnlife Log Cabin. Allow the time to figure out how it goes together, and you’ll savour many years of hassle-free pleasure. No construction abilities are involved. Anyone can erect a Finnlife Log Cabin, although some jobs may need more than one pair of hands. Construction times will change dependant on your experience and the number of people who help you. Of course you don’t have to do it yourself!

You may present this text to a carpenter then take it easy until he hands over the keys to your brand new Finnlife Log Cabin. But, whoever completes the work, the immediate step is to get to know these instructions. The knack is to be systematic and to foresee the work ahead. Although Finnlife log cabins share many options in common, each model style is inimitable. This set of overall instructions cover the basics of wooden cabin construction and are applicable to all Finn Forest cabins.

For features that are unique to your own Finn Life Log 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 alter a slight amount from those found here.

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

Foundations and preparation: You can build your Finn Life Log Cabin on foundations of concrete or on compressed gravel. Whichever option you choose, a solid and level base is crucial. Time given to the foundations is well invested. An uneven or unstable base will detract from the end outcome of the Finn Life Log Cabin. Doors and windows will not fit properly, walls may stoop and joints may not fit together.

Before you commence to build you ought to make sure that you have a full 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, stating the
Finn Life Log Cabin reference number shown on the packing label of the transit packaging. As you check each part place them out on the ground around the site of the log cabin. Put every part near to where it will be utilized. Laying out helps you visualize how the Finn Life Log Cabin is built and it means that parts are ready 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 place parts too close to the Finn Life Log Cabin footprint. Give yourself sufficient space to work in.

Put 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 the same. Place the one with the Lock RECESS AT THE TOP AND BOTTOM. Ensure that the door cills go behind the doors. Put the joints together loosely and make sure THAT YOU CAN STILL OPEN THE DOORS prior to continuing.

Begin with the half-height wall boards. They form the primary and bottom-most level. Put them over the ends of, and at right angles to, the floor beams. Note: If your Finnlife Log Cabin includes internal walls, also place the half-height wall boards that form the bottom-most layer. Refer to the Building Plans and Parts List for guidance.

Pay peculiar attention to the location of any notches in the wall boards of multi-roomed cabins. The position of these notches determines where the interlocking walls will go. Put the first layer of full-height wall boards across the ends of, and at right anglesto, the half-height wall boards. The overlapping corner joints slot together. Please note that if your full-height boards include spaces for doors, make sure you Put them in the suitable position.

When laying the roof boards, you will need to temporarily tack an eaves fascia board to the ridge beam as a guide batten, and use it to ensure that all roof boards finish in a flush ridge line. Mark the centre line on the front and rear faces of the ridge beam. Start nailing roof boards on one side of the roof, starting from the front. The leading edge of the first roof board should be set 5mm from the ends of the ridge and roof beams. The uppermost end of the roof board must be flush with the temporary ridge-beam guide batten. Nail each roof board to the ridge beam (V-Joint facing downwards) and each roof beam, driving 2 nails per board - per joint in at right angles to the roof slope.

Tack an eaves fascia board temporarily with nails to the ridge beam so that one edge is flush with the marked centre line. Do not hammer in all the way. You will have to take it out later on. When constructing the
Finn Life Log Cabin during the summer periods, we suggest leaving small gaps between the roof boards to accommodate expansion of the boards during the period when it's colder. Where constructing during the winter months we would recommend hitting the boards together, to reduce any gap appearing during the hot and dry periods.

Work through, board-by-board to the rear gable. Make sure that the eaves line
created by the lower edges of the roof boards is as straight as possible. The ending roof board may stick out beyond the rear gable. Tack it down lightly and mark on the beneath where it meets the ends of the ridge and roof beams. Remove the final roof board and cut it length ways 5mm inside the marked line. Put it back on the roof and nail down. Take off the temporary guide batten from the ridge beam, then repeat steps for the other side of the roof.

Make Sure that the eaves line created by the roof boards is reasonably straight. If needed use a cut to remove it flush. Attach the eaves fascia boards perpendicular to the roof boards, and flush with their upper surface. You need one piece for each side of the cabin. Fix by nailing into the ends of the roof boards with 50mm nails.

Put ridge shingles carefully 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. Put the second and each and every ridge shingles so that the green half completely covers the bitumen of the previous shingle. In each case, drive clout nails through the black bitumen to fasten. You will have put the ending ridge shingle when there is no black bitumen showing after you have trimmed it flush with the rear gable. Nail it to fix.

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