Finnlife Mokki Log Cabin

The Finnforest Mokki Log Cabin is a spacious and light shed-cum-summerhouse replete with a pair of doors and nice large window, allowing for an ideal and never-resented extra sitting room; just the place to enjoy afternoon tea.

Finnforest cabins are manufactured employing the best quality softwood from Scandinavian sustainable forests which are managed with a conscience and there is a harmonious existence between wildlife and industry. It's alternate layering of the wall logs allows for a rigid building - a standard of excellence unique to Finnlife Log Cabins.

Clearly illustrated, step-by-step instructions come with your cabin making assembly easier and more straightforward. The doors and windows come fully glazed. The wood is packed in protective plastic and comes packaged in the correct order for assembly, which will save you time.

FEATURES

* Made from Scandinavian White softwood
* 28mm wall logs
* Timber joists
* Pre-cut floor & roof boards
* Roof shingles
* Ready made, fully glazed doors
* Reinforced corners and wall battens
* All necessary fixtures and fittings
* Illustrated instructions

DIMENSIONS

Internal: 3.54m x 2.70m (11ft 7in)
External: 3.80m x 2.96m (12ft 5in x 9ft 8in)
Internal Area: 9.56m² (103 ft²)
External Area: 11.25m² (121 ft²)
Ridge Height: 2.51m (8'3")
It isrecommend that a concrete base is used and the cabin walls are approximately 35mm off the ground. The floor has floor joists which are pressure treated.

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How to build your very own Finnlife Mokki Log Cabin

Wonderful slow summery days might be calling, but don’t rush to erect yourFinnlife Log Cabin. Allow the time to figure out how it goes together, and you'll certainly enjoy many years of hassle-free pleasure. No construction knowledge are involved. Everyone can erect a Finnlife Log Cabin, although some tasks may need more than one pair of hands. Build times will alter depending on your skills and the number of people who help you. Obviously you don’t have to do it yourself!

It’s possible to show this text to a handyman then relax until he presents you with the keys to your finished Finn Life Cabin. But, whosoever completes the work, the first step is to familiarise yourself with these instructions. The trick is to be orderly and to plan ahead. Although Finnlife log cabins share many features in common, each model style is exceptional. This set of overall instructions cover the basics of wooden cabin construction and apply to all Finnlife cabins.

For features that are unique to your Finn Life Log Cabin – such as 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 a slight amount from those found here.

Gravel option: Remove all organic matter prior to starting work on the foundations. Foundations should always be laid larger than the footprint of yourFinnlife 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 commence to build you ought to make sure that you have a full set of components. Check off every 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, quoting the Finn Life Log Cabin reference number shown on the packing label of the transit packaging. As you check off every component set them out on the ground around the site of the log cabin. Lay every component near to where it will be used. Laying out aids you see how the Finn Life Log Cabin goes together and it means that components are ready to hand when you need them. You can use the Building Plans and Parts List as a scheme to what goes where. Be careful not to set components too close to the Finn Life Log Cabin footprint. Give yourself ample room to work in.

Lay out the four sides of the door frame on a clean and level surface so that the doors open outwards. Loosely place them to match the completed 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 make sure 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 remaining sawdust. Dust-free joints make a better fit. Walls are built by seting wall boards in alternate layers at right angles to each other. Now fix the location of the underlying, outermost floor beams. Slide them in slightly 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 sit.

Continue laying wall boards according to the layout of the Building Plans and Parts List you will have received with your order. The last few layers of side wall boards in some Finnlife Log Cabin are longer. The lengths increase in steps to offer support to an overhanging canopy. Lay angled gable boards in sequence starting with the length-most. Be careful 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.

Building up 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 flushed with the angle of the gable. Nail through into the gable boards to fasten. Tap the ridge beam into place at the apex of the gable ends. Fasten by nailing into the top gable board. Slide ridge and roof beam extension pieces over 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 fasten by nailing from each side. Fix the wall board extension pieces to the ends of the topmost wall boards in the same way.

Lay ridge shingles carefully 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 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 previous shingle. In each case, drive clout nails through the black bitumen to fasten. You will have laid 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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