It’s always great to read customers journeys with their log cabin, please see Mr and Mrs A’s Emma review below:
Introduction
Hi all – having pestered you all at various times during the process from pre-purchase through construction I thought you might like to see the end results of my efforts. This piece of garden had been lying as a large weed bed for years, Now, it has my wife’s ‘art/pottery studio’ on site. Having this:
- Gives her somewhere to work
- Gives me peace and quiet
- Means no more weeding, so all in all well worth the money.
It has been a lot of hard work and many man hours (a badly infected knee, numerous cuts and bruises, continuing problems with ‘tennis elbow’ and many long hot soaking baths). Despite that, it’s been a very satisfying project, just the little things that take up the time. Constructing the cabin and fitting the roof etc took probably about 16 hours.
The Emma Log Cabin
The cabin is very ‘green’ but it fits in well with the rest of the garden. It is also pretty much camouflaged from my neighbours view.
I have also added various bits :
- Full size gutter which collects rainwater into two 100L waterbutts.
- A fully functioning sink with running ‘cold grey’ water used for cleaning brushes drawn from the water butts. We did this using a 12 volt marine self priming pump and draining into a ‘soakaway’.
- Full electrics – digging the trench and laying a 50 metre length of 10mm armored cable at a depth of 2ft was challenging.
- A mini veranda/step as the cabin sits about 12 inches above ground level due to nature of the sub soil etc.
- LED downlighters
The cabin houses a small home pottery kiln. Though we had some concerns about heat generated impacting on the timbers etc, these fears were completely unfounded as it generates very little external residual heat.
I attach some photos. Overall, the bottom line is my wife is absolutely delighted with the end result! Also, in terms of value for money, the cabin is unbeatable. As I have said before brilliant customer service which helped us all along our ‘log cabin’ journey.
Best regards
Paul and Joan A
Emma log cabin timber frame base
Emma log cabin delivery
Construction of the Emma log cabin
Completed log cabin
Inside the Emma log cabin
Thank you very much Mr and Mrs A for your pictures and review. It is very much appreciated and I hope you enjoy your present we sent you!
Other customer experiences, builds and ideas can be enjoyed here: Pictorial Tuin Reviews
