In this blog series we will be providing you with top tips for looking after your Summerhouse. At Cabins Unlimited we make sure we supply all our amazing customers with all the information needed to look after their timber buildings.
Even though your new summerhouse may be enjoying its new, fancy location, work never ends here. To avoid difficulties, log cabins need routine care; if you keep up with the maintainance, your building will endure much longer than you anticipate! While a maintenance-free structure would be ideal, all the qualities of wood that we know and love would be lost.
Electrics, shelves and more:
All of our customers should be able to use our structures as a workshop, office, or even a hobby room, depending on what they need them for. In many circumstances, electrics are required for your extra area to function, in addition to wall-mounted storage and other items. Even if you are installing merely a sign for your garden tavern, it is crucial to pay attention to this!
As the seasons change, the structure as a whole will rise and fall as the logs expand and shrink. In order to avoid gaps where the logs have expanded at different rates, anything fixed to the wall must be fixed to just one log. Here is a graphic showing you how to fasten any object to the walls over many logs.
Please be careful to use the fixings exclusively on the windows, doors, or adjacent facias when attaching any blinds or drapes to the windows and doors. Please use the correct length screws if anything is to be bolted or nailed to the surrounding facia.
DO NOT mount any signs to the windows or doors, please. With just a little contraction, these signs will create gaps while keeping the logs at the same height as the door or window you have fixed above.
Since there is no wall cavity, most customers will utilise conduit or trunking to connect the wires to the plug sockets and lights in your log cabin's electrical system. When your electrician does this, we suggest using round conduit with clips that allow the conduit to move up and down with the expansion of the timber and leaving as much additional length in the actual fixings as possible – this is just to ensure that when the building does expand, there are no exposed wires that are aesthetically unappealing and the trunking does not bend outwards!
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