Please give us a call at Simply Log Cabins 01636 858 290. One of our experienced specialists will chat you through the various log cabin options and perhaps suggest alternatives, alterations and any ideas that you may think appropriate. We are stockists of: Gudrum Log Cabins, Norland Log Cabins, Lugarde Log Cabins and Bertsch Log Cabins. Plus we offer four payment gateways to buying your cabin!

1. Ten things to consider when
buying a log cabin

2. 1. Quality of the timber
All our Gudrum Log Cabins are manufactured
from high quality, slow grown North Eastern
European and Russian spruce. Our timber is
sourced from sustainable forests in these cooler
climate countries because the wood is closer
grained and heavier. The more open grained
woods have a greater tendency to twist or warp.

3. 2. Always use a good preservative
It is really important that your log cabin timber
is properly treated to encourage a long life. We
suggest every part of your log cabin should be
preservative treated for durability. Some of our
Bertsch Log Cabins feature a Larch wood base - a
wood with a high natural oil and resin content
and is very resistant to the normal decay
associated with untreated wood.

4. 3. Pressure treat base beams
Every part of our log cabins that are in direct
contact with the ground is pressure treated.
Pressure-treated wood will give your log cabin
longevity meaning it will last for many years and
in all the seasons, protecting the timber from rot
and insects.

6. 4. Build on a solid base
Your log cabin should be built on well prepared,
level and solid base is ensuring a long lasting
build. Cabins should at least always have a base
as large as the floor.

7. 5. Corner Jointing
Because we use an extremely good quality
timber that can be manufactured to fine
tolerances it means we can produce very well
sealed corner joints that fit together firmly and
create a very sturdy finished building. Slowly
grown Russian timber works particularly well
and thereby produces a beautifully machined
surface and excellent corner jointing.

8. 6. Size
We supply log cabins in various wall thicknesses
and to the following specification: 19mm and
28mm log cabins, 44mm and 70mm log cabins.

10. 7. Insulated Log Cabin
We supply log cabins that offer roof and floor
insulation. If your log cabin is to be used as an
extension to your living area e.g. garden office,
play room or games room, then we advise the
roof and floor insulation as this does have a
clear benefit in terms of creating a more stable
and regular temperature inside the cabin and
minimising exposure to extremes of weather,
both hot and cold, when inside the cabin.

11. 8. Fast delivery
Simply Log Cabins will deliver your log cabin
with within seven days – depending on stock
levels.
Our cabins are delivered into our warehouse in
Lincoln and are then forwarded to our
customers address on our six wheeler truck and
off-loaded by an on-board fork-lift. Always use a
company that delivers and can use professionals
to erect your log cabin if possible.

12. 9. Log cabin building specialists
If you are not entirely and confidently sure how
to build your cabin, or if it is a large cabin, or a
multi-room cabin, or an insulated cabin, then we
strongly suggest that you hire one of our
suggested log cabin building professionals to
erect your log cabin.

14. 10. Other things to consider
If you are attempting construction yourself, then
consider what tools you will need and think
about your time factor – have you costed this
into the total price – it may be cheaper to hire a
specialist.

15. Please give us a call at Simply Log Cabins 01636
858 290. One of our experienced specialists will
chat you through the various log cabin options
and perhaps suggest alternatives, alterations
and any ideas that you may think appropriate.
We are stockists of: Gudrum Log
Cabins, Norland Log Cabins, Lugarde Log
Cabins and Bertsch Log Cabins. Plus we offer
four payment gateways to buying your cabin!

16. Simply Log Cabins
Newark
Nottinghamshire
UK
Email: info@gudrum.co.uk
Phone: 01636 858 290
SimplyLogCabins.co.uk