Residential Log Cabins and Timber Frame

If you are looking for a Log Cabin, a cabin to live in, or just quality residential log cabin, then please have a look through our massive range of cabins and timber frame buildings.

The other day we had a phone call from a woman in the UK she was looking for a Residential Park home to actually go in here grounds.

She called one of our LV representatives in the UK and started to ask hundreds of questions, and these questions were all about planning, which our dealer answered honestly, it was then our dealers turn to ask a few questions, so the first was, what’s was her budget, with this, she exploded and said how dare he ask?

When the dealer told me of this, he was concerned he had upset a customer, and I said, actually I saw no harm, as how can we judge what she can afford. What build type, what degree of quality if we do not know the budget!

Sadly, there are too many con men in this industry and because of this, the public are nervous, and rightly so!

I will give a for instance.

There is a cabin company that has just come onto the scene in the UK, their web sites tells people that they can purchase a 4 bed Residential Log Cabin for under £30.000, ( it’s not possible to get a 2 bed residential building for £30.000) and to our horror, there are so many old and vulnerable people actually believing this crap! (Seriously)

So when we get calls and people ask us for a residential building which means it has full building regulations, full structural calculations, triple certified glazed windows and doors, and they are told £70.000 plus for a 4 bedroom, they start to shout foul!

Seriously, I get so angry at gullible people! When could you buy a house, which is classified as Residential, for £30.000, yeah mid 1980’s, and it was not up too much in  insulated properties, or quality of build.

However, the foul was them being told £30.000 in the beginning for a 44mm supposedly (Residential Log Cabin). Which in reality is worth about 7.000 Euros, the windows and doors that are not certified and the cabin comes to no building regulation standard at all!

If you really want the truth, and really want advice on purchasing a quality, log cabin or timber frame building, then please 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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So how could this affect you, well, its simple, rather than spending ridiculous amounts of money on heating your poorly insulated house, you could save hundreds on owning a passive house. Passive housing starts with triple glazing, keeping the noise and bedlam, smells and bustle of the outside world very much on the outside.

Passive housing also is a solid build, and a timber frame passive housing project can be finished in as little as 2 months. Built, tiled, plastered, wired, and internals fitted out!

Logcabins.lv has over the years designed some amazing iconic garden buildings, and timber frame buildings, we are always looking to the future and trying to understanding what is needed and how to offer that in a quality package, which we find easy to do using our 3 principles of Quality, Design and Great Pricing.

Our passive homes are what we would like to call very funky, and our attention is very much on the First time Buyers.

As a company, we are more interested in designing great living spaces for people who actually appreciate what we are trying to achieve.

First time buyers in the UK, have historically been sold cheap and poorly insulated housing units.

Our design team has only just begun to look at the Passive market, and to look how we are able to offer great spaces, at affordable pricing. As we are sure you are all aware passive means ( a lot of insulation, frame work, triple glazing, and so much more).

Most companies offering a passive like build, are quoting prices from £2000 per sq meter. We are trying to come into the market with half that cost!

Log cabins LV trying to make tomorrow a better place!

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Passive Housing

Are you looking for an Energy efficient home? A Green Home? Are you looking for a house that really does tick all the right boxes?

Over the years we have at log cabins LV wanted to desperately change the way Park Homes are manufactured, as the BS 3632 is a typical “ lets grab the money and run” build regulation!

There are many, many companies building to this regulation and we have said defiantly thousands of times that this build regulation is designed for the manufacture to win, win and the buyer to loose, loose.

So then, as always the CEO of Log Cabins LV decided to get 2 highly skilled architects to sit down for 2 years to design a park Home that would be manufactured under our ethos, design, quality and price.

Our Designs are as always, modern, unique and bespoke and well priced for the quality provided.

Our Quality is unapproachable, using the best of all northern timbers, graded, and hand picked, Northern Siberian Larch and CE approved triple glazed windows and doors, CE certified timber c24 visually graded.

In the UK passive housing starts around £2000 per square meter, we start at £1000, and we are not scrimping on timber sizes, in fact we are actually offering more in the way of wall thicknesses and higher graded timber than our more expensive competition.

For us to offer this price is easy, we do not have any middle men in the middle of the transaction that have greedy, sticky fingers.

Our first passive show home is now available to view in Poole in Dorset! And our second passive show home will be able to view in the next few months in Allington near Grantham. Our two New Passive show homes are completely different to one another, offering different build designs.

Our Two Show Homes will offer a different glimpse into two different types of build, our Poole show home is high tech, passive, low heating bills and more cottage, retirement home design.

Our second show home will be as much tech, and still built to a passive standard, triple glazing etc, but more of a glimpse into the future of where park homes will go!

We are very excited to hear that the European Union in conjunction with the UK government are to overhaul the BS3632 and to demand manufacturers to offer better insulation and a better build regulation… Hip Hip..Hooray!!! Lets hope they scrap the BS 3632 and make manufactures manufacture everything to building regulation.

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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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Mobile Homes- Park Homes- Holiday Units-Passive Park Homes

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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Norway has one of the highest build regulation standards in the world. TEK 10.

Three times that of the UK and most of Europe.

Insulation values are a major part of this high standard, but also on par with insulation is build quality. Visual Graded CE KD C24 is the only grade expectable for all weight bearing walls, roof etc. Most of Europe and UK use Visual Graded C16, which is the bottom most part of the Visual Grade Scale. (Please ask your builder which grade he is thinking of using in your timber frame build).

Norwegians love to use sedum roofing out in the wilds, as this offers amazing insulation properties to the timber frame or Log Cabin dwellings and gives the building a natural feel, and also brings natural into the design, so it’s a plus, plus , plus!

Sedum roofing is a very heavy alternative to steal tiles, or shingles. All our timber frame buildings are built regardless if they are erected in Northern Norway or Essex with strength in every part of the construction.

If you are looking for a quality timber frame building-house-office-garage-park home-mobile-granny annex- etc, please give us a call or send us an email.

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The reason Log Cabins LV is so dominant in the cabin, timber frame market place is partly to due with the fact that we have the best dealer network worldwide; also we are very choosy about who becomes an LV dealer. If you do not see our trade mark shield on the dealers website and each cabin image, then they are not selling our products, if a company claims to sell our products, but you can not see our logo, please do not hesitate to send us an email or give us a call. Too many companies are already trying to claim they are part of our dealer network and that the cabin’s they are selling are LV. Please email us if you are in doubt. Attached are a few images of our new to come Passive Park Homes, we feel Park homes are poorly manufactured and over priced, so we now offering the market a quality Park Home Timber Frame Home which is massively insulated, with quality over sized, under priced, graded C24 timber frame work, which will make the rest of the industry run for cover!!

With the best windows and doors in the business, your bespoke park home will be the best it can be!

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Our quality starts from the very fiber of the timber, which is the highest grade available, which is selected for your residential building, Park Home. We only use the best, and then we go even further by over sizing out timbers, insulation values and so much more! The only surprise you’ll get from our quality timber frame buildings is that you get your investment is safe.

Our new range of residential park homes will be way above building code, the euro 5 build code is very adequate in some ways, but it does not go far enough, so we have decided to beef that code up, by applying further insulation and triple glazed windows and doors, our aim is to make our residential park home timber frame units way, way above any code that may come into effect with in the next 10 years, this being the case, your investment is safe, as the building will need no further work carried out if thermal values change. Which are one-reason park homes loose their value so quickly.

Plus our ex works price to the customer will be a jaw dropping experience for all concerned in the industry and public, as many question will be asked why is a building 6.7m x 18.0 m costing 80 to 100.000 pounds when our price is half, and in Euros, and to a building specification that almost triples what is available on the market at present! So please watch this space…Please Send us an email or give us a call.

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