Finnlife Susi Log Cabin

Watch as the Finnforest Susi Log Cabin becomes the perfect outdoor games room.

The double doors with full glazing and single opening window ensure both easy access to the log cabin and a light and airy environment. The Finnlife Susi's strength is ensured by 44mm thick cladding and interlocking corners. The generous area makes it an ideal all-purpose building including outdoor games room or garden office.

# Interlocking construction
# Eye-catching shingle roof
# 1 opening window
# Glazed double door
# 44mm cladding

See individual retailers for such extras as underfloor heating

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Windows
Finnforest Susi 1 opening windows
Finnforest Susi with underfloor heating 1 opening windows

Door Opening Size (w x h)
Finnforest Susi 0cm 0cm
Finnforest Susi with underfloor heating 0cm 0cm

Material Pine

Cladding Style Tongue and Groove Interlocking Boards

Glazing Material

Finnforest Susi Styrene
Finnforest Susi with underfloor heating Styrene

Floor Material Tongue & Groove

Roof Material Tongue & Groove

Cladding Width
Finnforest Susi 4.4cm
Finnforest Susi with underfloor heating 4.4cm

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Finnlife Log Cabin - How To

Beautiful, long sunshining days might be calling, but don’t hasten to erect your Finnlife Log Cabin. Take the time to work out how it goes together, and you’ll savour many years of trouble-free pleasure. No specialist skills are involved. Anyone can build a Finnlife Log Cabin, although some jobs may need more than one pair of hands. Construction times will alter depending on your experience and the number of people helping. Of course you don’t have to do it without any help!

You might show this text to a carpenter then take it easy until he delivers the keys to your brand new Finn Life Log Cabin. But, whichever person gets the cabin built, the initial stage is to get to know these instructions. The knack is to be orderly and to plan ahead. Although Finnlife log cabins share many options in common, each model style is unique. This set of overall instructions cover the basics of wooden cabin construction and apply to all Finn Forest cabins.

For items that are unique to your Finn Life 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 slightly from those found here.

Gravel option: Get rid of all organic debris before you start work on the foundations. Foundations should always be laid bigger than the footprint of your Finnlife Log Cabin – 300mm wider in every direction and 6” thick when using compacted type gravel. For compacted gravel foundations you should use retaining boards to keep the gravel in place and compacted.

Before you commence to construct you ought to check that you have a full set of parts. Tick off each 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 broken in transit get in touch with the distributor, quoting the Finnlife Log Cabin reference number displayed 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. Set each part near to where it will be used. Laying out helps you see how the Finn Life 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 guide to what goes where. Be careful not to place parts too close to the Finn Life Cabin footprint. Give yourself sufficient room to work in.

Lay out the four sides of the door frame on a dirt-free and level surface so that the doors open outwards. Loosely place them to match the built 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 check THAT YOU CAN STILL OPEN THE DOORS before proceeding.

Start with the half-height wall boards. They form the first and bottom level. Lay 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 layer. Refer to the Building Plans and Parts List for guidance.

Pay particular 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. Lay the first set of full-height wall boards across the ends of, and at right anglesto, the half-height wall boards. The overlapping corner joints opening together. Please note that if your full-height boards include spaces for doors, make sure you Lay them in the required position.

Install door frames after you have laid 3 layers of short wall boards in the pertinent walls of your cabin. The door frames come as complete units with wide grooves cut into the architraves. Slide the frames vertically into the appropriate gaps so that the ends of the wall boards match the grooves. Tap the door frames gently 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. Make Sure that the doors open outwards properly. Install door frames after you have laid 3 layers of short wall boards in the pertinent walls of your cabin. Make Sure 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 easy to tell 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 arrive as finished units with wide grooves alike to those on the door frames. Slide them vertically into the gaps between the wall boards.Knock lightly from above to make sure they go all the way down. Be careful not to twist or distort the windows. Make Sure that the windows open outwards and that the frames are square and vertical. Misaligned windows will not open properly.

Lay ridge shingles precisely over the ridge without creasing. Begin 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 flushed with the leading edge of the roof boards. Fasten 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 last ridge shingle when there is no black bitumen showing after you have trimmed it flushed with the rear gable. Nail it to secure.

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