Finnlife Peile Log Cabin

The Finnlife Peili Log Cabin is a beautiful cabin which offers a good-sized space inside and enough room for you to create something very special for yourself and your garden.

Like all log cabins in the Finnforest range, the Finn Life Peili is constructed using top quality Scandinavian White softwood. This comes from sustainable forests which which are managed with a conscience and there is a harmonious existence between wildlife and industry.

Use the Well illustrated, step-by-step plans that come supplied with your cabin making assembly of the building simpler and very straightforward.

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 pre-cut wall battens
* All necessary fixtures and fittings
* Illustrated step-by-step instruction manual

DIMENSIONS

Height:9'5" (2.9m)
Width:9'7" (2.96m)
Depth:14'11" (4.34m)

This log cabin is also available with underfloor heating - see individual retailers for details.

Building a Finnlife Log Cabin

Lovely, lazy sunshining days might be beckoning, but don’t rush to erect your Finnlife Log Cabin. Spend the time to understand how it goes together, and you’ll savour many years of hassle-free pleasure. No carpentry skills are required. Everyone can erect a Finnlife Log Cabin, although some tasks may require more than one pair of hands. Construction times will vary dependant on your experience and the number of people who help you. Obviously you don’t need to do it alone!

You may present this text to a carpenter then relax until he hands over the keys to your brand new Finnlife Log Cabin. However, whoever does the job, the first step is to read carefully these instructions. The knack is to be systematic and to plan ahead. Though Finnlife log cabins share many features in common, each model style is exceptional. This set of overall instructions cover the basics of log cabin construction and apply to all Finnlife cabins.

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

Concrete option: Remove all organic material before you begin work on the foundations. Concrete foundations must always be the precise base size stated in the Parts List and Plans instructions to minimize 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 assemble your Finnlife Cabin on foundations of concrete or on dense gravel. Whichever option you make, a firm and level base is crucial. Time spent on the foundations is well invested. An uneven or unstable base will detract from the final outcome of the Finnlife Cabin. Doors and windows will not fit properly, walls may bow and joints may not match up.

Before you begin to construct you should check that you have a full 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 displayed on the packing label of the transit packaging. As you check off each component place them out on the ground around the site of the log cabin. Set each component close to where it will be used. Laying out helps you see how the Finnlife Cabin is built and it means that components are ready to hand when you need them. You can utilize the Building Plans and Parts List as a scheme to what goes where. Be careful not to place components too close to the Finnlife Cabin footprint. Give yourself ample space to work in.

Put 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 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. Put the joints together loosely and check THAT YOU CAN STILL OPEN THE DOORS prior to continuing.

Take the frame apart again and squeeze PVA adhesive into the joints at the end of each frame piece. Press the sides together tightly. Ensure that the frame is alignrd correctly by measuring the cross-diagonals. Wipe away all excess adhesive from the frame. Use a damp cloth and rinse it out thoroughly between wipes to prevent adhesive smearing onto the frame. When you are happy that the frame is square, secure all corners with the screws provided.

When laying the roof boards, you will need to temporarily stick an eaves fascia board to the ridge beam as a guide batten, and use it to ensure that all roof boards terminate in a flushed ridge line. Mark the mid-point line on the front and rear faces of the ridge beam. Begin 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 may be flushed 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.

Nail an eaves fascia board temporarily with nails to the ridge beam so that one edge is flushed with the marked mid-point line. Do not hammer in all the way. You will need to take it out later on. When constructing the
Finn Life Log Cabin during the summer periods, we advise that you leave small gaps between the roof boards to allow expansion of the boards during the period when it's colder. When constructing during the winter time 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 last roof board may project beyond the rear gable. Nail it down lightly and mark on the underside 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. Remove the temporary guide batten from the ridge beam, then repeat steps for the other side of the roof.

Ensure that the eaves line created by the roof boards is reasonably straight. If necessary use a cut to remove it flushed. Attach the eaves fascia boards perpendicular to the roof boards, and flushed 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. 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. 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 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 fix.

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