Finnlife Kulma Log Cabin

Outdoor fun revolves around the Finnlife Kulma Log Cabin.

Imagine that your garden was a cricket pitch. That would make the Finn Life Kulma Log Cabin your pavilion. The Finnlife Kulma seems custom-designed for serving refreshments and watching sport.

Worry not about rain or the dreaded bad light. The inside is so roomy, the food, drink and banter - sporting and otherwise - can carry on all through the night!

Why buy the Finnforest Kulma Log Cabin?

* Made from precision-cut top quality Scandanavian White Softwood harvested from sustainable forests.
* 28mm wall logs
* Timber joists
* Roof shingles
* Ready made, fully glazed doors
* Reinforced corners and wall battens
* All necessary fixtures and fittings
* Illustrated instructions

Dimensions

Width:
Internal: 3.82m
External: 4.08m

Depth:
Internal: 2.94m
External: 3.20m

Ridge Height
External: 3.01m

Area:
Internal: 9.90m²
External: 11.56m²

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How to build your own Finnlife Log Cabin

Fantastic, lazy sunshining days might be coming, but don’t hurry to construct your Finnlife Log Cabin. Allow the time to get to know how it is constructed, and you're guaranteed to enjoy many years of trouble-free pleasure. No specialist knowledge are needed. Everyone can build a Finnlife Log Cabin, although some tasks may need more than one pair of hands. Construction times will change dependant on your skills and the number of people who help you. Of course you don’t need to do it yourself!

It is possible to show this text to a handyman then sit back until he hands over the keys to your finished Finnlife Log Cabin. Having said that, whoever gets the cabin built, the first step is to get to know these instructions. The plan is to be methodical and to plan ahead. Though Finnlife log cabins share many options in common, each model style is unique. These general instructions cover the basics of log cabin construction and are applicable to all Finnlife cabins.

For features that are unique to your own Finn Life Log Cabin – such as exact dimensions, piece numbers, building plans and piece 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 may differ a slight amount from those found here.

Gravel option: Get rid of all organic debris prior to starting work on the foundations. Foundations must always be laid bigger than the footprint of your Finnlife 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 start to construct you ought to check that you have a complete set of pieces. Tick off every piece against the piece 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 piece or that a piece has been broken in transit get in touch with the distributor, quoting the Finnlife Cabin reference number shown on the packing label of the transit packaging. As you check off each piece place them out on the ground around the site of the log cabin. Put every piece near to where it will be utilized. Laying out aids you visualize how the Finn Life Log Cabin goes together and it means that pieces 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 place pieces too close to the Finn Life Log Cabin footprint. Give yourself adequate space to work in.

Place 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 finished 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 moving on.

Start with the half-height wall boards. They form the primary and bottom level. Place them across the ends of, and at right angles to, the floor beams. Note: If your Finnlife Log Cabin comes with internal walls, also place the half-height wall boards that make up the bottom 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 location of these notches determines where the interlocking walls will go. Place 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 gap together. Please note that if your full-height boards include spaces for doors, make sure you Place them in the suitable position.

Continue 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 give support to an overhanging canopy. Place angled gable boards in sequence starting with the length-most. Be careful 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 every gap appears, tap in a roof beam. Make sure that the angled side of each roof beam lies flushed with the angle of the gable. Nail through into the gable boards to fix. Tap the ridge beam into place at the apex of the gable ends. Fasten 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 fix by nailing from either 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. Start from the front of the Finnlife Log 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. Fasten by hammering 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 previous shingle. In each case, drive clout nails through the black bitumen to fix. You will have put the final ridge shingle when there is no black bitumen showing after you have trimmed it flushed with the rear gable. Nail it to attach.

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