![]() For the electrician, all that will be needed is to fit sockets and light fittings, a final wiring of the plug board, wiring of whatever water heating system you’re using, and possibly wiring of your cooker. ![]() This stage shouldn’t take more than three days. Once your flooring is down, get the electrician and plumber to complete their work. Then again, there are lots of very interesting linos available on the market now… Flooring is very much a matter of taste -for one person, carpet is the creme de la creme, while another will INSIST on keeping the original timber flooring. While the wood in your floor is reasonably hard, it is not unscratchable, so best to protect it before any damage is done.įor that matter, there is nothing wrong with putting timber flooring on top of your new Timber Living floor, if that’s what you want. Its important to protect the fresh timber floor before the electrician and plumber move in with nails and screws aas wellas other, heavier items. So get varnishing, or carpeting, or timber flooring – whatever your choice. Its time to protect the new floor in your log cabin, before the electrician and plumber return. You can see in the video below how, over two days, we build the exterior log cabin walls and ceiling boards, so that we can leave an enclosed space for the electrician and plumber. ![]() There are four phases to the build, which take about three weeks to complete.įirst stage build – the log cabin exterior is built. Here’s the spec for the builder: 5 inch 804 hardstone and 5 inch 30-33 N concrete.įor this section, I am going to discuss the build schedule for the Limerick Two Bed Log Cabin, which is the one that was built in Boyle as a show house for Timber Living. Building a log cabin on anything else (stilts or blocks or whatever) is a mistake – any movement in just one of the points would lead to serious undermining of your build. Your log cabin is going to require a five inch concrete base. Take a look at our blog post all about log cabin bases: Blogpost –, Log cabin bases and foundations. Now, that’s the easy bit! But what are the stages that you will see happening when your log cabin is being built? Log Cabin Base Stringent management and quality assurance levels ensures that every piece of timber has been dried to the right level, machined to the right dimensions (with extremey tight tolerances) and is loaded safely and correctly, ensuring that there are no delays on site due to incorrect or missing elements of your log cabin. The secret to the speed of build of log cabins is down to the fact that most of the work is done in a factory, by precision Austrian-built machines, using the latest in high-tech software. (You can read all about “painting” log cabins here: ) How can log cabins be built in such a short time? (I believe we’re just feeling sorry for ourselves because we don’t get as much sunshine as othe countries in Europe!)īut Timber Living has been building log cabins in Ireland for over twenty years, and we’ve proven their longevity – even our oldest cabins are stil as good as new, as long as they’ve been treated properly on the outside. There are some illusions that Ireland’s weather is worse for log cabins than elsewhere in Europe, but this is just a perception of the situation. Let me show you how we can build long-lasting, quality homes in a short amount of time.īefore anyone starts the process of building a log cabin in Ireland, they have to ask themselves the question “How long do log cabins last in Ireland?” And its a perfect question. Log cabins are long-lasting, stylish, very affordable, and are built VERY quickly.
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