residential log cabins lv

As ever, Log Cabins LV moves forward, and today we just signed a deal for 50 residential timber frame buildings for a New Park Home, Park, in the Lake District, which we are obviously very excited about!

Photos of our new very contemporary modern highly insulated timber frame 2 bed, 3 bed and 4 bed will soon be published.

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There are so many companies offering residential log cabins, which in all honesty are about as residential as a 3m x 3m garden shed.

When speaking to any company regarding a residential log cabin or timber frame, please make sure that it comes either to the standard of the mobile home act the BS 3632, (the new BS3632 2016) ruling, or to full building regulations, anything else is just a simple, non-residential building-cabin, timber build.

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Log Cabins LV is without doubt the best design house of Log Cabins and Timber Buildings in the industry; we design super iconic, workable, eco, affordable buildings, that have quality at their core.

Our manufacturing departments are not just the best, but the very best of the best, and with our designs, and their talent, we are able to offer the market, amazing designs, at affordable pricing.

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We have been designing cabins and supplying them to our dealer network for more than 16 years, and we still have a few dealers that started with us those many years ago, and this is where our strength lays, keeping core high quality dealerships around the UK, Europe with companies that are solely into selling Timber Buildings.

What we have found is that if a dealer sells other products, be it timber supplies, or lawn mowers, nail guns or paint, they sadly seem to only give half their attention to selling cabins, and when you are selling a log cabin, you must give it your full attention, and this is where problems arise.

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Mistakes happen, and when mistakes happen, rightly, customers complain and they obviously call us, as they picked the LV brand, and it is we who must calm the waters between dealer and customer.

As a company and not many would actually admit to this, we make mistakes, but we try as quickly as possible to put it right. And as the leading company in design and highest quality manufacturing

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So to stop this, we sadly as I said asked a few of our dealers that are not solely in the Timber Building industry to please remove our trade mark- ranges and wished them a great future. Some were understanding, others, well,,, were not!

We think this was proper and correct. The customer comes first, not profit!

And if people want to say nasty stuff about LV then it’s their right to express their inner anger, we are all for it, but we are more in tuned to customer service and keeping prices low and the quality of the workmanship high, than caring about disgruntled ex dealers.

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Our reshuffle of dealers have seen our sales sore, but what we have seen is a happier end customer, better built log cabins and lower pricing.

In addition, what we have noticed is a complete stop of phone calls of customers complaining about dealers.

If you are looking for a company that really puts the customer first, please send us an email or give us a call!

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If you are looking for a 3 bed Passive House which screams luxury, opulence, which boasts incredible build quality, outstanding workmanship and design, then this 19.0m x 13.4m two garage 3 bedroom Passive House Design is for you!

What we have also done is try to show that outbuildings can enhance your property, add value, by keeping the same design through out!

Passive Homes (A++ Energy Efficient) are the future, they are the intelligent choice, they are energy saving, quality built, but more importantly they are what we should be leaving behind to our children’s children!

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The UK has about 25.000.000 homes, 80% are of poor design, lack quality insulation, inferior windows and doors, and cost way over the odds

Log Cabins LV can offer quality, design and price, all of which beat the competition easily!

A++ Energy Efficient Homes are not expensive, but no doubt, every builder and his dog will now be hammering away, offering this kind of build type, and prices at the very start will be extortionate. Honesty is in price!!!

Firstly, the panels should come delivered 99% fully made to site, there should be no frame building on site. The stud work in the panel should not be open to the elements Ever!!!!

A passive house, an (A++ Energy Efficient home) should at all times be manufactured in a controlled environment, we have a heated undercover work shop facility where we are able to fully build a 3 storey house, our in house CNC Window and door line offers quality CE approved Windows and Doors every time.

All our timber is C24 graded, KD FSC.

If you are thinking of purchasing a Passive Home, please give us a call first!!!

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timber frame passive housing

Our New Passive Range of Timber Frame cassettes are not solely for the Park Home Market.

Our New and Amazing Super Insulated Timber Panel System is with out doubt the future for all New Dwellings, as we believe setting standards of a quality build at incredibly low prices is the way forward for also the housing market.

Offering the chance for first time buyers to purchase a quality build at a price they can afford!

For too long brick and block with gas central heating, has dominated the landscape, blighting our country with poorly insulated housing, which costs 2 times its actual value!

UK Building Companies have built too many homes that are like chicken coops, treating first time buyers with contempt, and charging them over £200.000 for the indignation.

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Our aim, is to offer a modern type structure which is Passive, with low heating costs, as little as £80 a year, which boasts triple glazing as standard, under floor heating, Air Source Heat Pumps, Air Recuperation systems, and so much more for less than a Mobile Static Home.

We believe that this kind of build will dominate the market in years to come, and we would like to shape this market with sensible pricing, with our standard of quality leading the way!

Why we are different to any other company is the standard of our build quality.

Our timber is not subjected to any salt, unlike 99% of all timber brought from over seas.

Our Grade of Timber is uncommonly high! We only use graded KD C24 FSC 45mm x 195mm treated (if required), which in the UK is priced high to push building companies to purchase other lower grades because of the difficulties in obtaining higher grades at sensible pricing. Most timber frame studwork is done with C16, and sometimes sadly, the timber is not even graded.

We are able to offer a full turnkey solution, planning, drawings, base, groundwork, the super insulated timber frame building and every other aspect of the build.

Next we believe in offering not just the best CE approved laminated timber triple glazed windows and doors money can buy, we offer these where other companies would offer cheap UPVC plastic windows- doors.

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Also we offer quality security locking mechanisms on all our Windows and Doors, keeping your property secure from unwanted intruders, and mother nature!

The list goes on and on, why our super insulated timber frame passive homes are without doubt the best in the business, if you are interested in purchasing a timber frame, passive building, that really is sensibly priced, please give us a call.

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We are so pleased to announce the opening of our unique highly insulated passive Park Home in Poole in Dorset shortly!

If you are looking for a Park Home that has all the bells and whistles, that is unlike any other Park home in the UK, then ours is that Park Home- Mobile Unit, Holiday Lodge you have been searching for.

We call this model the 500, due to the wall thickness of 500mm, yes half a meters of graded timber, space age insulation material, Siberian larch cladding and triple glazed windows and doors, this is not just a timber frame building stuffed with insulation, OH! No, it’s a lot more than that, it’s a Park Home that will cost about £80 a year to heat, Yes!! £80 pounds!!!

Our New Passive Park Home is packed full of all the latest heating equipment, we at Logcabins.lv say No to Gas, and yes to Air Source Heat Pumps, under floor heating, Air Recuperation Systems, and so very much more.

Our Passive Park Home is manufactured by skilled carpenters, and as we are full time house manufacturer, you know that your Mobile Home, Holiday Lodge, Park Home will be manufactured by a very highly skilled workforce.

Unlike most Park Home manufactures that build under the lower build regulation BS 3632, we build our Park Homes to UK full building regulation, and in our Passive model we build to a spec way and above UK build regulations that will not be required for at least 50 years, making it unique yet still very affordable.

All bespoke designs welcome.

Please send us an email for further information.

Do not settle for less! Logcabins.lv in conjunction with Iformbuildings!

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Over many, many Years Domestic type Park Homes, Caravans, Mobile Units Holiday Lodges have changed very little; sadly, they are still manufactured to a specification that is quite honestly laughable, and can deprecate as much as £7.500 a year!

When looking to purchase a Park Home, or a Holiday Home, maybe a Mobile Home or a holiday Lodge to put on your farm, or free hold, you need to think twice before purchasing anything that is built- manufactured to the BS3632 – 2005.

What is almost criminal is the way that these units are sold, the word Home is used too frequently in sales material of companies who sell these inadequate piles of garbage. They are not a home from home, your house increases in value, your Park Home built under the BS 3632 does not.

Structural Timbers is another word used a lot in their sales material. Yet, any mention of what graded material is used in the manufacturing is missing from their literature!

In addition, the sentence, We will Build your Dreams, should be replaced with, we will fleece you for everything you have and more!

 Your Park Home should be an investment, it should be your Home, and there is no law that states your Park Home cannot be manufactured to the UK building regulations. The only reason why they don’t is profit!

So why do companies that manufacture park homes use chipboard, plywood, and PVCu windows and door? Why is the unit build quality so bad!

Its quite simple really, they want repeat business, so they manufacture absolute garbage that lasts 10 years and then needs replacing.

I know many companies will refute this, but it’s so simple to find the truth on value of second hand Park Homes, its called ebay!

We searched and noticed that at least 99.9% of park homes loose the value of 80% of their worth in the first 7-9 years!

A quality long lasting park home – lodge needs the ingredients of quality timber, quality insulation, built by a skilled workforce that manufactures not just park homes but houses, hotels, schools and all manner of other type timber constructions.

And what materials you use in the process of the build is so incredibly important.

The UK has a shortage of timber, most forests have long gone, and the UK imports nearly 87% of all its timber from abroad! This means that after the timber has been delivered to the Park Home manufactures based in the UK. It’s costly and normally the grade is not just below par, its awful, and expensive, compared to what LogCabins.LV use.

C24 graded FSC 45m x 195m timber frame work (stud work) in the UK is near on impossible to find, also graded 45m x 145m graded timber also is very hard to find, as most companies use in the Park Home industry 73mm x 36mm frame work, stud work! Which is half of what should be used to give the Park Home strength and longevity.

Also there are many types of insulation, because every Park Home-Mobile Home- Holiday Lodge from logcabinslv.co.uk is in reality a bespoke, we look at your budget and our full time architects will give you the best specification to meet your budget.

Below is a normal specification for our Park Homes, Holiday Lodges. This specification is way past anything on offer in the UK. All timber is graded, C24.

Exterior walls:

• Horizontal spruce panel 20x140mm – undercoated once and painted twice – already made panels;
• Vertical battens 20x45mm c/c600 for air gap – already made panels;
• Gypsum plate 9.5mm as wind barrier – already made panels;
• Anti-wind film – already made panels;
• Segments of wooden framework 45x195mm c/c600 – already made panels;
• KNAUF insulation 200mm – in free lengths;
• Plastic film 0.2mm – in free lengths;
• Battens 45x45mm c/c600 for cables and pipes – in free lengths;
• KNAUF insulation 50mm – in free lengths;
• 5mm gypsum plate – in free lengths.

Inside walls:

• 5mm gypsum plate – in free lengths;
• Segments of wooden framework 45x95mm c/c600 and for bearing walls 45x145mm c/c600 – already made panels;
• KNAUF insulation 100/150mm – in free lengths;
• 5mm gypsum plate – in free lengths.

Ceiling between second floor and cold loft:

• Horizontal stringers 45x195mm c/c600 – in free lengths;
• KNAUF insulation 300 mm – in free lengths;
• Plastic film 0.2mm – in free lengths;
• Battens 45x45mm c/c400 for pipes and cables – in free lengths;
• KNAUF insulation 50mm – in free lengths;
• 5mm gypsum plate – in free lengths.

Roof:

• Final roof cover – not included, supplied by the Client;
• Battens 45x45mm c/c600 across rafters for final roof cover – in free lengths;
• Battens 45x45mm c/c600 along roof rafters for air gap – in free lengths;
• Diffusion film Tyvec Pro – in rolls;
• Roof trusses c/c600 – in free lengths;

Windows and doors:

• Windows : wooden frame windows with triple glass package, Scandinavian-type (opening outside, with handles or hooks), painted white.
• Outside doors : simple wooden entrance doors with insulated plate (glass package window can be included) with 3-plug locks and handles, impregnated, primed and painted white.
• Wooden inside doors: made glued pinewood with impregnated MDF fillings, with simple locks (without handles), primed and painted white.
• Inside inlets for the windows (Furinger): made of impregnated MDF, painted white.

Do not settle for less!

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Residential park Homes

If you are thinking of purchasing a log cabin for a residential home, please also consider the timber frame option as well!

Timber frame buildings are not just built to last, they can be manufactured to be either, building complaint, or highly insulated to a passive standard.

At Log Cabins LV we can offer a frame work which is not just manufactured to the highest spec available in the UK for normal residential standards, but we are also able to offer a passive option.

We are also the only manufactures of Residential Buildings to have a passive park home on display.

Our Show Home is full of tomorrows heat saving equipment.

If you are looking for a different design, something that stands out and says we are the future, then please visit our show home in Poole.

Logcabins.lv, is the future in Residential Park home Passive Cabins and Buildings!

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