Monthly Archives: September 2020

Factory Log Cabins 1999-2021( Part 1)

It’s really funny, we have been around since day one, yet, no one knows us, possibly because we have been the quiet supply to a the chain of disgusting greedy piggy dealerships that just got more and more greedy it was like a pandemic of mass proportion that was ill , sick and vile that swept the UK, and only money, profit and scams . So last year we put a complete stop to it, and kept just 3 dealers and got rid of the rest.

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What’s really upsetting is that greed spoils good in everything, and greed has always been the downfall of most cabin log Dealers.

One comment i want to get clear from the start of this blog, we can be trusted with money, any amount, we had 70 dealerships that trusted us with your money each and every day, but we could not trust them to offer you a fair deal! ( please remember this) ……… it was not them that sacked us, it was us that sacked them!

Many years ago I was walking through a small, empty warehouse, and I saw out of the corner of my eye a 3m x 3m corner, interlocking 28mm log cabin, and I knew then that this was my future staring at me, covered in dust, doors hanging off, and boards full of holes and the timber not particularly very good, but the design was perfect, obviously I had to push the Mill, to manufacturer a better product, and it was quite difficult, as the standards here in Lithuania  as they are now still, sadly quite low, so one must push and push and push, which means you have to be around the product, people, and manufacturing areas 24./7 as the only person you can trust is yourself, and I never believe anyone when they say “ don’t worry it’s going to be cool” I always found that nothing went as planed and the quality was always slightly a miss, compared to what I wanted and needed.

Every man and his dog has tried to sell log cabins, and still they come, and it makes me laugh when they write crap like, made in the UK, actually the timber is either Russian or Baltic, UK does not have the timber quality needed to manufactured really seasoned log cabins.

So, I decided to put up some pics of cabins that stretch back years and years, show you how we changed the industry, and how we are still the only leading light in the industry.

So lets begin with some photos……..

A fantastic Clock House By https://www.factorycabins.co.uk/oc-range/
This Old Design Building was in its day the best of the best https://www.factorycabins.co.uk/oc-range/
Triple Clock House,,,,,, Built in 2005
Our mission statement has always been quality, even from way back when https://www.factorycabins.co.uk/oc-range/
The reason we put a lot of watermarks over our photographs and images is because companies like Skinners sheds and other companies just steal our images, or photos and add them to their websites. Because of their lack of imagination, and also not being able to pay for a proper graphic designer or just laziness, which ever, who knows , so sadly we must protect ourselves by adding these watermarks over our products. (( sorry))
The first ever 5m x 5m 45mm log cabin ( ever) with veranda and and and. But this is the first ever manufactured.
I am so proud we did and are doing so much for the garden market, unknown hero’s that have just changed that market space into something amazing. This was my design, and it has been copied like the clock house of the twinskin system, by the rest, We call them the sheep. They just follow, and make a lot of mess behind them.
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Remember this was over 15 years ago, way before tilt and turn windows and joinery glulam timber for windows and doors, yet we made amazing cabins even then. And the prices, this is before the greedy little bastard Dealerships got hold of them, we sold this for about 1200 euros ex works, they sold it for 3500 pounds. Plus plus plus plus.
I use to get upset, but the dealers would always say, no Britt is going to buy a Log Cabin from you direct, they don’t trust you, your in Lithuania, my answer now is, the credit card companies do not trust you now the dealers, that why you all have huge deposits on your credit card machines so many Dealerships in 2008, went bust, and just ran with all the deposits they could get their hands on. I was actually shocked, as we lost a huge sums to dealers.
Which is one reason now we got rid of all of them nearly except 3.
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Yes this is our design, and yes we were the first to make a double clock house, Clock houses used to be massive sellers, Until the government came in with new rules of 2.5 and and and.
Some of our first twinskin designs, you can tell by the age of the image.
This was one of my first miniature house designs in twin skin, we manufactured a few but as i said the government put a stop on them before they could become popular, this was back in 2002 and housing was a problem, actually its always been a problem.
Double garage with an office upstairs, under 4m, we actually manufactured many of these for our Dealers.
This I called the Chapel, I designed it because Dunster House as always were saying they manufactured the tallest, widest door etc, so we shut them up, this door was about 2m wide and 2.3 m high, making it the biggest, cabin door to be fitted to a cabin ever.
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This is from our standard range…… as always, made by us, and sold by some dealer who claimed to be the designer and the manufacturer, both were lies, and the price for this was always triple what we sold it to the dealer for. So glad we got rid of dealers.
This brings back so many happy memories, one of our first ever clock houses, and check out the timber, perfect…… The design has been refurbished, but the quality of the cut, and the roof and and , amazing.
I remember this one, we sold it to Hortons, stopped dealing with him years ago, long story, but as always for him it did not end well! Never fall out with your supplier.
I think Daryl, one of our old dealers bought this one, and sold it to someone, did a good job on the decking, and assembly. But the final price to the customer was too high! bye Daryl.
This is one of the very first clock houses, so this would be 2002/2003
Clock House with Shed
THE FIRST ONE EVER MADE!
NOW WE ARE JUMPING FROM 2003 TO 2018 AND THE NEW CLOCK HOUSE, WITH TILT AND TURN DOUBLE GLAZED WINDOWS AND DOORS, AND PURLINS THAT SIT AT 90 DEGREES IN THE APEX.
This one i remember, we sold it to Peter, in Devon, lovely guy, he did an amazing job putting it up…
A twinskin log cabin in ( 2003) way before anyone even knew what a twin skin was, they have now all copied it, but the true masters of this design and manufacturing process are us 100%.
It’s strange when people ask us, “who are you”, and i just laugh and say, ( we are the creators) and we are here to stay, and we have also as you can see have the man power, skill and the aptitude to design, and create the best of the best cabins.
This is the first ever 5m x 5m twinskin garden office designed by yours truly, and came onto the market in about 2006.
Its sold and sold and sold, then every back street mill and shed company asked their manufacturers for it, and so the twinskin was copied by all. Must laugh, as none have made a good copy, the ones i have seen are kind of a bodge, rather like Arch Leisure’s Pods, they look the part but are actually rubbish, completely and utterly. No one makes a frame which must have strength from OSB. No One!
I have seen these CNC machines for sale in the UK which you feed OSB board into and it cuts out pod frames, seriously, what the F…K… and then they ask £28.000 for it. Seriously.
To everyone who wants a pod from Factory Cabins, we are not cheap, we do not manufacture rubbish, our pods are built to last, they are not anything like Arch Leisures or any other in the UK, so please if you are looking for just quality, longevity then ask us, as we are the Best manufacturers of Pods in the market place,