Finnlife Puro Log Cabin

The Finnlife Puro Log Cabin], newly released in 2007, conforms to a traditional scandinavian design. As with many of the Finnlife log cabins the logs are 28mm in thickness. Whatever corner of your garden you intend to place the cabin in is simply perfect. The roof of the log cabinand the floor are manufactured of oriented strand board and the roof covering is shingle tile. These boards are also 28mm thick.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Windows
Puro 2 side opening windows
Puro with underfloor heating 2 side opening windows

Door Opening Size (w x h)
Puro 0cm 0cm
Puro with underfloor heating 0cm 0cm
Material Pine

Cladding Style Tongue and Groove Interlocking Boards

Glazing Material
Puro Styrene
Puro with underfloor heating Styrene

Floor Material Solid Sheet Material

Roof Material Solid Sheet Material

Cladding Width
Puro 2.8cm
Puro with underfloor heating 2.8cm

Return to top

Instructions for building a Finnlife Log Cabin

Wonderful lazy summertime afternoons might be enticing, but don’t rush to build your Finnlife Log Cabin. Spend the time to get to know how it is constructed, and you will get pleasure from many years of hassle-free pleasure. No specialist skills are involved. Anyone can erect a Finnlife Log Cabin, although some tasks may require 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 yourself!

It’s possible to present this text to a carpenter then relax until he presents you with the keys to your great new Finnlife Log Cabin. However, whosoever completes the work, the first stage is to get to know these instructions. The knack is to be orderly and to foresee the work ahead. Although Finnlife log cabins share many options in common, each model style is distinctive. These general instructions cover the basics of wooden cabin construction and apply to all Finnlife cabins.

For items that are unique to your own Finnlife Cabin – such as exact dimensions, component numbers, building plans and component 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 differ slightly from those found here.

Gravel option: Remove all organic debris before you start work on the foundations. Foundations must always be laid larger than the base of your Finnlife Log Cabin – 300mm wider in all 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 construct you ought to make sure that you have a complete set of components. Check off each 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 broken 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 off every component place them out on the ground around the site of the log cabin. Lay each component near to where it will be used. Laying out helps you visualize how the Finnlife 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 guide to what goes where. Be wary not to place components too close to the Finnlife Cabin footprint. Give yourself sufficient room to work in.

Put out the four sides of the door frame on a dirt-free and level surface so that the doors open outwards. Loosely arrange them to match the ready frame. The top and bottom jambs are not quite the same. Place the one with the Lock RECESS AT THE TOP AND BOTTOM. Make sure 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.

Your ready Finnlife Log Cabin rests on a series of parallel beams known as floor beams. They offer a firm base and raise the cabin off the ground for ventilation. Do not prevent the flow of air underneath the cabin by covering the uncovered end. To stop damp rising into your cabin each floor beam should be covered by two strips of damp-proof membrane, one on top and one below. The polythene transit packaging offers a perfectly good damp-proof course when cut into thin strips. Otherwise you can buy a sheet of commercial damp-proof membrane and make that into strips. Floor beams are simple to recognise. They are impregnated with a long-lasting preservative that makes them darker. The layout of floor beams depends on your Finnlife Log Cabin
model; please refer to your specific Building Plans and Parts List.

Set up door frames after you have laid 3 layers of short wall boards in the relevant walls of your cabin. The door frames come as complete units with wide grooves cut into the architraves. Slide the frames vertically into the proper gaps so that the ends of the wall boards match the grooves. Tap the door frames lightly from above to make sure they go all the way to the bottom, but be careful not to exert too much pressure or to twist or distort the frames. Check that the doors open outwards properly. Set up door frames after you have laid 3 layers of short wall boards in the relevant walls of your cabin. Check that the door frames are square and vertical before you continue to erect the cabin walls. Mis-aligned doors will not open properly. Attach handles to the doors.

It’s simple to figure out which way round your windows should go: the outer face has a wider cross-section and the top architrave is longer than the one at the bottom. When you have laid the number of boards indicated on your Building Plans and Parts List, start laying shorter-length boards in the walls that contain windows until you have a window-sized gap two or three layers deep.

Windows come as completed units with wide grooves the same to those on the door frames. Slide them vertically into the gaps between the wall boards.Tap lightly from above to make sure they go all the way down. Be careful not to twist or distort the windows. Check that the windows open outwards and that the frames are square and vertical. Misaligned windows will not open correctly.

Put ridge shingles precisely over the ridge without creasing. Begin 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 flush 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. 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 secure. You will have laid the ending ridge shingle when there is no black bitumen showing after you have trimmed it flush with the rear gable. Nail it to secure.

Return to top

Finnlife Models