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For the past few months we have been offering our customers certain ranges of IKO shingles free with our log cabins and the offer has been very well received. It’s a genuine offer and accepted by loads of very pleased customers. Please see this page for the full offer and availability: Free Roofing Shingles.
What do we supply?
All our shingles are from IKO. We supply these either as a FREE felt shingle option or as a bought option with all our log cabins.
IKO Felt Shingles for use on log cabins and our garden buildings.
These are the very best you can get in Europe and probably the world, IKO is known all over. This is their website: https://www.ikogroup.co.uk/ virtually everywhere you go you will see the IKO brand, for instance, have a look at the branding on the roofing membrane of new build houses before they put the tiles on. A good builder will always use IKO.
Other Shingles
Of course there are other shingles on the market, not just IKO. We’ve tried a lot of these ourselves but we still come back to IKO.
We have independent fitters who you, the customer, deals with direct and you pay them direct. We pass these details on to you following your order with us as a free service.
These are often the same fitters who are sub contracted by other companies.
Sorry while I’m on the subject of fitting have you seen the costs! Looking at a 3m x 3m corner log cabin tonight from a company and they wanted over £2000!!! to fit it. Truly unbelievable.
Speak to any fitter direct and they would normally charge you about £450 for a 3m x 3m.
I’m digressing, sorry. Back to shingles. I suggest, when buying or receiving shingles with your log cabin you ask the following question.
Questions?
Dear Supplier,
Could you please tell me if the shingles you are providing me are CE Marked?
Our independent fitters install for several companies but they and I are good friends after many years together, and they whisper to me. Recently I was shown shingles they were asked to fit and …. oh my!
Looking at them they were of a far lower quality than the ones we use and then we notice that there was no document of performance (DOP) with them and they are not approved in Europe,.
At the moment to supply in Europe for construction they must be approved and CE marked. You will find these shingles have a far thinner base layer and top layer which makes the total shingle a LOT lighter. This causes easy cracking and absolutely no protection at all when felt nails are used therefore leaking around the nails will be far more common. I dare you to claim on the guarantee.
So, please ask the question when you are buying shingles from your supplier either as a free option or bought. Are they CE marked and approved for use in Europe. It does make a HUGE difference to how long they will last.
IKO Green shingles for log cabins
Thanks for the update. So the tiles are perfectly okay to use provided they are applied properly. Very disappointing I’ve taken the advice of the insrallers and spent over £350 for a rubber covering
I purchased roof shingles from you , a rather fetching green. When the guys came to install the cabin they informed me that as the pitch of the roof was 11% they “strongly recommend ” that I shouldn’t use these as the rain wouldn’t run off correctly and would leak. I called the people who I purchased the cabin from who insisted they would be okay to use. The installer was adamant the cabin wouldn’t last if I went ahead. The result is I’ve now ordered rubber roofing at a cost of an additional £365.00. And the cabin sits in my back garden waiting for another installation date and a load of roof tiles I don’t know what to do with. Who was right? Very frustrated
Have a look at the advice we give here: Felt Shingles. This should help you.