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 construction

Those long summertime days might be beckoning, but don’t hasten to build your Finnlife Log Cabin. Allow the time to work out how it is constructed, and you'll certainly get pleasure from many years of trouble-free pleasure. No construction skills are needed. Anyone can build a Finnlife Log Cabin, although some tasks may need more than one pair of hands. Build times will change dependant on your experience and the number of people who help you. Obviously you don’t have to do it without any help!

You could present this document to a professional builder then relax until he hands over the keys to your finished Finnlife Cabin. But, whosoever completes the work, the first stage is to understand fully these instructions. The plan is to be orderly and to plan ahead. Though Finnlife log cabins share many options in common, each model style is distinctive. This set of overall instructions cover the basics of wooden cabin construction and apply to all Finnlife cabins.

For items that are unique to your own Finn Life Log Cabin – such as exact dimensions, part numbers, building plans and part 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: Remove all organic debris prior to starting work on the foundations. Foundations must always be laid bigger than the base of your Finnlife Log Cabin – 300mm wider in all 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 start to construct you should make sure that you have a full set of parts. Check 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 Cabin reference number shown on the packing label of the transit packaging. As you check every part put them out on the ground around the site of the log cabin. Place each part near to where it will be utilized. Laying out aids you visualize how the Finn Life Log Cabin is built and it means that parts are ready to hand when you need them. You can utilize the Building Plans and Parts List as a guide to what goes where. Be wary not to put parts too close to the Finn Life Log Cabin footprint. Give yourself ample room to work in.

Set out the four sides of the door frame on a clean and level area so that the doors open outwards. Loosely place them to match the finished 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. Slot the joints together loosely and make sure THAT YOU CAN STILL OPEN THE DOORS prior to continuing.

Begin with the half-height wall boards. They form the primary and lowest level. Set them across the ends of, and at right angles to, the floor beams. Note: If your Finnlife Log Cabin also has internal walls, also put the half-height wall boards that make up the lowest layer. Refer to the Building Plans and Parts List for help.

Pay specific attention to the location of any notches in the wall boards of multi-roomed cabins. The position of these notches determines where the interlocking walls will go. Set 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 Set them in the proper position.

When laying the roof boards, you will need to temporarily tack an eaves face board to the ridge beam as a guide batten, and use it to make sure that all roof boards finish in a flush 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 top end of the roof board should be flush with the temporary ridge-beam guide batten. Nail each roof board to the ridge beam (V-Joint facing downwards) and every roof beam, driving 2 nails per board - per joint in at right angles to the roof slope.

Tack an eaves face board temporarily with nails to the ridge beam so that one edge is flush with the marked mid-point line. Do not hammer in all the way. You will have to take it out later on. When making the Finnlife Cabin during the hotter months, we advise to leave small gaps between the roof boards to accommodate expansion of the boards during the winter months. When constructing during the winter time we would advise 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 stick out beyond the rear gable. Tack it down lightly and mark on the beneath 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. Set 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 approximately straight. If necessary use a cut to trim it flush. Attach the eaves face boards perpendicular to the roof boards, and flush 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.

Set 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 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. Set 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 fix. You will have placed the last ridge shingle when there is no black bitumen showing after you have trimmed it flush with the rear gable. Nail it to secure.

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