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120mm Glulam laminated log cabin Internal Photos

Big Shout Out To David! Thanks for the Photos……

As I am sure a few of you remembered the 120mm glulam sports pavilion we built last month, here are so amazing internal photos. What you should notice is the thickness of the purlins, central and each side, also the weight bearing purlins running down the middle from back to front. As you will notice these are completely an over kill in size, but we believe in always manufacturing our glulam log cabins to be ready for all things mother nature may think to bruise or batter them!

Glulam cabins from logcabinslv.co.uk are not just quality, they also come with a remarkable price tag, our bespoke windows and doors and all manufactured on our Weinig new window and door line. The quality of our windows and doors is amazing. Bespoke Sizes available, also we offer a full bespoke glulam design log cabins survice.

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laminated glulam log cabin interior

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Quality Glulam Log Cabins

When purchasing any log cabin, be it Solid Log, Laminated, or Scandinavian, always check the dimensions of the weight bearing timbers. (Important)

As you can see here, we use, 120mm x 600mm rafters to hold up our roof, this is a serious over kill, but when you are paying less, and getting more, we know come wind or snow, your roof is going to stand the test of time.

Quality Built Glulam Cabins-Buildings

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Timber Frame Highly Insulated Bungalows

Timber Frame Housing

Designing new and amazing Cabins, Log Cabins, Pods, and Laminated Cabins is great fun, but today we thought we would share with you our thoughts on the future of the Good Old fashioned Bungalow.

In the UK there are hundreds of thousand Bungalows, Brick and Block, heated by gas, most of which are sadly very poorly insulated, and designed for a bygone year!

So we decided to re-invent the good old-fashioned Bungalow, a Bungalow that would be super efficient, aesthetically pleasing, and would allow the owner to be proud of his-her property. Plus fitted out with all the modern gadgets.

Please feast your eyes on the future of Passive Bungalows!

Heat Source Pumps to get rid of all those nasty gas bills.

Quality Timber Frame structure. Siberian Larch Cladding. Built in Elements.

A Sedum Room.

And a copious amount of Insulation.

And an amazing Logcabins.LV design to boot.

The walls of this amazing little bungalow are nearly 350mm thick, packed with insulation. The roof is a staggering 450mm thick, with a sedum roof to give your property that back to the nature feel.

All in all, this quality structure is the future, and we are happy to participate in offering this kind of natural living space into public domain.

quality Bungalow highly insulated

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New Mega Camping Pods by log cabins LV

Camping Pods

The Only True Mega Pods in the Industry

The Widest, Highest, Longest Camping Pods Available!

Only from logcabinslv.co.uk

Logcabins.LV is not just the number one name in all things log and timber frame, we are also the leaders in producing, designing Mega Quality Camping Pods. The first true Camping pod design came from the Toda tribe from India in the 18th century , since then, many have claimed fame to this unique design, but sadly, geographical design and age is the true owner, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toda_Hut_Ooty.jpg

You now are able to purchase camping pods that really are a 5 Star Standard.

We as a company always like to better, and offer the public-trade- an experience that is dynamic in every sense. For too long camping pods have been small, narrow and claustrophobic, way too compact, treating customers like mice, fitting them out with a shower and toilet in a floor foot print no bigger than 8 ft x 6 ft shed, and calling these luxury Mega Camping Pod holiday accommodation units? We call then a joke and a disgrace. Everyone in the business knows that logcabinslv.co.uk never copies, we innovate, we look for the solution and then we look at design, safety and then price. Our distinctive designs are key features to most holiday parks, and quality is paramount through the whole process, which means our customers return year after year. To our credit we have two of the worlds largest Camping Pod Parks for children under our belt! Manufacturing Camping Pods for children is all about safety of design.

So what’s New for 2014, well! If you follow the link supplied on this page, you will see over 50 designs for camping Pods, we now have the largest most innovative camping pod range-designs in the world. (No doubt the others will copy).. https://www.logcabinslv.co.uk/logcabins/product-range/camping-pod.html

Our new range of camping pods are not just Wider, Higher, Longer, Better Built than the competition, they are also finished and ready to use when delivered to site. They are what’s called in the Business a top shelf product! Please follow this link to view our manufacturing facilities. Unlike any other manufacturer of Camping Pods, we are a manufacturer of Quality Timber Frame Housing working under the Tek10 build code, so you can be sure that the Camping Glamping Pod you receive is manufactured by skilled carpenters, not from some guy in a converted garage! http://youtu.be/WxPg8yjH1w4

Our New Range of Luxury Camping Pods will give your customer an amazing experience, fitted with Window dormers or Velux SkyLight Windows, which is a first for camping pods, our aim is not to compact the public, but to offer them a quality camping experience that they will tell their friends. If you are looking for quality camping pods that will set you apart from the Tent Sites, then please send us an email.

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Building a log Cabin!

LV LOG CABINS AND FACTORY CABINS CABIN…….

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twinskin log cabins

quality internal log cabin roof

buildings a twin skin log cabins

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Quality Log Cabins by logcabinslv.co.uk

Here are some new photos kindly given to use by uk-logcabins.co.uk. We are able to offer many different styles of cabins, be that a garden office, or a nail bar, as the only manufacturer to be able to offer all our 3000 designs in numerous thicknesses and different build type, be that a quality timber frame house- garden home office or home gym, glulam laminated log cabins or round hand made scandinavian log cabins! Over the years we have designed thousands of different buildings, and as each day passes we add more designs to our range.

If you are looking for a bespoke design log cabin, timber frame garden office, Residential Cabin, A quality Park Home, please do not hesitate to send us an email.

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Clock House Log Cabins

There are so many clock house log cabins on the market, all of them are a copy of our original, and we are always telling people to be watch out for awful copies. Here is one reason why, if you look at the first photo you will notice the purlins are pathetically small, and cut into the apex at 45 degrees! This means Mr Gravity wins, as the purlins once put into an apex at 45 degrees only work 50%, and with small purlins to start with, you are going to get a very saggy dangerous roof!

You will notice our purlins, ( second Photo down) are double in size to the awful copies on the internet, and cut 90 degree’s into the apex, which gives you 100% of the purlin holding up the roof!

Our advice to you, is please fill out our form to find a dealer and speak to a specialist that knows about construction, and timber buildings. Unlike 99.9% of companies on the internet selling massed produced rubbish log cabins, we actually care about our customers, design and safety first before price.

Pathetically slim-cheap Purlins! ( sat in apex at 45 degrees, ) (Who ever manufacturers a clock house log cabin like this was thinking money first, and safety be dammed!)

clock house cabins by logcabinslv.co.uk

Double thick purlins! Cut into Apex at 90 degrees, safety before price. Only from logcabinslv.co.uk

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Log Cabins DF Range

A big shout out to uk-logcabins for the photos!!

Our superb quality, and amazing designs, makes our DF range possibly the best selling log cabin range in the UK. Our log cabins doors and windows in 44mm and above are not just good, they are are fantastic for the price bracket they are in. All are hand made and all are manufactured with care. Unlike 99.9% of companies on the Internet that sell Log Cabins, we are completely different in so far as we do not stock pile them, as stock pilling cabins means they were produced in the slow period, thats over the winter month and then sold in the summer period, which means your cabin has had 6 cabins placed on top or yours if you are unlucky, also it means the timber has been stressed and this equals all the worst signs for a disastrous cabin.

Logcabins.lv manufacturers all cabins fresh from order, we bespoke log cabins daily, so if you have a desire to have the door moved, or add a window bespoke is our middle name. As you will have noticed we have the largest range in the world of log cabins, sadly most of our log cabins designs have been stolen by most back street mills, ( our clock house log cabins) is one of them, also the Twin Skin log cabin system is another. If you are looking for quality, then there is only really one choice. Do not settle for less. logcabinslv.co.uk

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Glulam Bespoke Log Cabins

if you are deciding on purchasing a Glulam log cabin, then there are many things you must take into consideration before parting with your money. Firstly, is the bespoke glulam cabin manufactured from engineered timber, or is it just bits and bobs stuck together? Does the company that is offering you glulam timber have any certification, is it up to date, what glues do they manufacture with? and is it non toxic.

Bespoke glulam log cabins come in all shapes and sizes, also many different thicknesses, we are able to make bespoke garden offices, bespoke granny annex, bespoke cricket pavilions, bespoke coffee houses, bespoke garages, bespoke summer houses, bespoke work sheds, and the list goes on, so if you are looking for a bespoke building, log cabin, what ever, please feel free to give us a shout!

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Bespoke Log Cabins

With over 3000 bespoke log cabin designs on our website, we truly have more designs than all the cabin companies in the world put together. What sets us apart from other companies that sell bespoke cabins is that we don’t sell them as a third party, we manufacture them, and we are the only manufacturer to be able to offer, Laminated bespoke log cabins, Solid Timber bespoke log cabins and timber frame cabins.

All our glulam laminated bespoke log cabins are with out doubt the best quality money can buy, yet their pricing direct to the trade is so way lower than anyone on the market. We feel as a company that value for money is very important, and we keep our prices down, and as always our quality high!

Bespoke summer houses, or garden buildings, can come in so many different sizes, 34mm, 44mm, 70mm, 90mm and twin skin bespoke which can start from 34mm +34mm, and end in glulam 220mm x 220mm.

With such a huge range, we are sure that you will find something in our website that will tickle your fancy, if the doors or windows are not in the correct place, and you would like us to bespoke them, no problem.

We are able to bespoke the following.

Bespoke Garden Gym
Bespoke Summer House
Bespoke Garden Studio
bespoke Therapy Room
Bespoke Hobby Room
Bespoke Snooker Room
Bespoke Guest Room
Bespoke Garden Reading Room
Bespoke Garden Sleep over Room
Bespoke Garden Office
Bespoke Garden Hideaway
Bespoke Garden Games Room
Bespoke Home Cinema
Bespoke Consultation Room
Bespoke Garden Work Shop
Bespoke Play Room

bespoke log cabins ( Please click the images)

bespoke log cabins

If you are looking for a quality bespoke cabin, with residential window and door quality, then we can provide an amazing array of different styles and quality levels.

Our bespoke cabins over the years have been used for bespoke garden offices, bespoke scout halls, bespoke village halls, bespoke glulam classrooms and so many other uses.

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Laminated Log Cabins, Good and Bad!

While trawling through different videos on supposedly quality laminated cabins,a few things caught my eye and I just want to share these with you. Firstly, if a company is selling a laminated building, you would think that while they are laminating the logs, they would remove all offending unsightly timber, knots, wane, splits etc from the logs. We as a manufacture only use as a base start C24 which is the highest grade in visual grading for KD FSC Timber, we then cut out nearly all the knots to make C32 or C40, which is a grade most companies in the UK-Europe have never heard of, never mind manufacture with. So while I was looking intensely at other companies videos I noticed something that shocked me, ( pic below) the timber has a huge long dead knot? so how is this laminated? How is it graded? And this is why there needs to be a government grading for laminated logs, as sadly glulam laminated timber is sometimes just bits of old rubbish glued together.

terrible laminated logs

Next, looking through the same video, i noticed that one of the main supporting beams, was as you can see from the photo coming away from the next in line above, these should be connected together with bolts. This means the roof will eventually bow. It also means that this cabin was not subjected to structural calculations, and quite possibly built using the BS 3632 code, which we have said time and time again is a joke! When buying any kind of residential building, be it Log, Laminated, or timber frame, we would always suggest putting said building through structural calcs.

terrible beam

If you are looking for a quality Engineered Laminated ( glulam) cabin, please send us an email. Do not settle for less, logcabinslv.co.uk

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Camping Pods by LogCabins.lv

CAMPING PODS UK

Log Cabins LV is now offering custom made camping pods to fit all budgets, and all needs. Our camping pods are not just the best on the market they are the only camping units, glamping pods built by professional builders, We use our skills, and modernised machinery to manufacture quality camping pods. we are the only company that actually build our pods to build standards. Our pods are not just robust, they are built from top quality timber, and our external siberian larch cladding is possibly the best external cladding on any pod ever manufactured.

camping pods

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Siberian Larch….logcabinslv.co.uk

Hi All! Today I was walking through one of our mills and I spotted some amazing Siberian Larch Glulam sections.

As we all know Larch from Siberia, is always amazing, but the larch I saw today was 100% in quality. Quality Larch I think personally is the best material to manufacture log cabins from, sadly the cabin would cost more than the ground it sat on, but if you are looking for a bridge, or any other glulam timber structural element and it must be engineered, please do not hesitate and send us an email.

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Log Cabins LV How To Build a Log Cabins 2014

How to build a Log Cabins

4 out of 10 build there own log cabin, so we have decided to put up some helpful photos on how to build a standard log cabin. However we do believe whole heartedly that employing a professional cabin builder to erect your log cabin is the best course of action.

www.logcabinslv.co.uk do not settle for less!

If you are looking for a quality log cabin, please send us an email and will will get the nearest quality dealer t to you, to give you a call. Thank you!

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Children’s Play Houses by logcabinslv.co.uk

What makes a quality children’s play house? Is it attention to detail, making sure there is nowhere the child can get a splinter? Is it making sure no little fingers can be caught in the windows and doors? Is it a robust construction? Is it quality interlocking logs, or is it all the above and more. Children’s playhouses must be certified, the certification is a very stringent quality control, and we can unlike 99% of companies selling children’s playhouses offer the CE certification on all our children’s play houses, sandboxes, benches etc, this is an assurance that all our children’s play houses are quality from the off set and that your child is safe playing in and on them!

children’s play house 2014

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Camping Pod, Mega-Family Unit 2014

Camping Pods have now been on the market for more than 5 years, as one of the forerunners in this market, and with a totally unique camping pod design we have designed yet another amazing, Mega Pod –Family Camping Pod for camping sites, fishing Lakes and so on… We have found that a lot of other camping pods on the market are not fit for purpose, and poorly constructed, where ours are designed firstly and before all else for public safety.

Also our camping pods are designed to offer a huge amount of natural light.

When designing our new family camping pod, we have taken a lot into consideration.

Our windows and doors as you can see are uniquely designed to allow copious amounts of light in, with toughened windows and doors, and a full bath room, bedroom and lounge area, your guests will not just experience a 5 star camping holiday, they will experience luxury!

Do not settle for less. logcabinslv.co.uk, the leading light in design.

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Log Cabins France 2014

Our French Connection, Abris Bois LV as you can see are true masters at putting up one of our 44mm cabins. Matthias and his father Jan are now becoming a force to be reckoned with when it comes to selling, erecting cabins in France.

Here are a few photos…

Thanks for the Photos lads!

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Park Home Manufacturers- And what you really get for your money! By log cabins LV ( Chapter 2 )

Dissecting Park Homes and what you really get for your Pound!

Today! The Floor!

We have surfed the web and have taken from 10 different Park Home manufacturers websites build statistics and an average size.

So lets begin!

Firstly the word, High Density 18mm seems to be used a lot to describe ( Chipboard ). We all use chip board, but it needs to be an impregnated and water proof, none of the Park Home Manufacturers stated this!

We then come to the Floor Joists, most companies stated that the size of their floor joists were all under 100mm x 50mm. they all stated they used stress graded timber, but did not state what grade!

Most use Polystyrene as insulation!

And 9/10 use some kind of breathable membrane which is fire and moisture retardant, to the BS 2782, the old and out dated British Standards again!

So sadly as we can see, the floor in most Park Homes sold in the UK is an absolute Joke!

Here is Our Floor..

6 different internal floor finishes available
22mmChipboard on top as the floor base
Segments consisting of 45x200mm c/c600 wooden balks; (Graded C24)
200mm KNAUF insulation, and 3 other types of insulation available.
Water proof 12mm chipboard underneath;
Water Proof -Fire Retardant Membrane ( DuPont Tyvek )

As you can see, our specification of the floor is double compared to 9/10 Park Home Manufacturers. And our pricing is more than half that of all Park Home Manufacturers!

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Park Home Manufacturers- And what you really get for your money! By log cabins LV ( Chapter 1)

Logcabins.lv is one of the NEW!! leading lights in the manufacturing of Park Homes and Holiday Lodges, be it laminated logs, Solid log cabins or quality high spec, fully insulated timber frame!

What truly is a park home? Previously known in the industry as mobile homes, or the unsightly massed produced 4 berth caravans, Park homes have risen slightly in spec and quality levels since the 1990’s.

Your Park Homes should be an investment! securing thousands of pounds for the time you retire or when you need to go into full time care, or maybe leave a little something for the Kids, but really how much of your investment is safe when purchasing a Park Home?

Its quite easy to find out, just put into Google…….. Second Hand Park Homes, and you will be horrified how Park Homes drop in price. actually its staggering!! In 10 years your Park home that cost you 135.000 can be worth as little as 20.000 pounds-euros.

The question is why??? Why do Park Home Manufactures tell you that your investment is secure, but in reality it is not!

What amazes us is the way Park Home Manufactures tell our elderly and retiring about releasing equity from their property that does earn interest, and purchasing a Park Home which sadly does not!

The Park Home Home market and the Park Homes for sale should be far more regulated than they are, as this industry is a multi Billion Pound affair.

Over the next few days we are going to high light what is wrong with this industry at length, and where Logcabins.LV will hopefully start setting standards that are so needed, and push this industry towards manufacturing better for less! Quality counts, lets forget what the pathetic guidelines are to manufacture a park home at present, and really look at how your park home should be manufactured and the price you should be paying!

Your Park Home should be the best it can be, and we are going to show you what your investment should buy you!

I have been told off for attacking this market so aggressively, but after looking at whats on offer, and the prices attached, my blood boiled.

If we can not look after the elderly with respect and dignity, then we should not be in business.

Profit is one thing, theft is another!

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News by logcabinslv.co.uk……..New Timber Frame Residential-Park Home Buildings 2014

Logcabins.lv has for a while been debating if we should offer to the public directly Timber Frame residential buildings and park homes. What we have noticed is that the pricing on the Park Home market is way too high,it reminds us of the days of time share, massive commissions! And! for what you get in the way of specification it seems to us there is more thickness in the sofa beds offered now in the park homes than actually in the the main timber structure. What we find hard to comprehend is that the Park homes sold today in the UK are wilfully under-manufactured, and the Insulation and other parts of the Park homes be it the windows and doors, are quite frankly crap!

What logcabinslv.co.uk would like to achieve through this ex works price, is to allow our retirement couples to be able to invest in a, highly insulated, quality built building, that is so way ahead of the competition, it not only increases in value, but will last the test of time. All our buildings come under the Euro 5 code, which far exceeds the lax BS 3632 code.

For a matter of reference, the government did try and lost to get a higher quality Park home onto the market, i.e, higher insulated value, etc etc. The park home manufactures in the UK went up in arms stating it would cost jobs etc.

Forget about offering our Mothers and Fathers quality buildings, Nop!! money as always ruled the day! Disgusting…

So in the next few weeks we are going to offer EX works prices. These prices will with out doubt upset the market to the core, as our specification will be double to that offered at present on the market place, and our prices will be a third!

No doubt the park Home industry will cry foul, but when we can offer a 6m x 16m for 40.000 euros ex works ( yes you read right), with top quality residential standard, CE certified windows and doors, insulated walls , roof and floor, with the timber frame walls being constructed of C24 through out, and Siberian Larch Cladding external, and a wall thickness of 300mm, not the pitiful 175mm or 110mm now offered on the market place.

So Please watch this space…..