Buying a Log Cabin Kit for your Garden

By Spencer Wilkins

If you are looking for help and information regarding log cabin kits the best place to find what you are looking for is by going online. As you will soon discover there are a number of different companies now around who all offer these types of kits and which can prove to be extremely cost effective.

As you will soon discover these kinds of kits have their logs cut, milled, dried and then shaped so that you have a much wider selection of cabin designs to choose from. There are some kits that are inexpensive because they only consist of the logs and fasteners which make up the buildings exterior walls. But there are others, which include all the necessary components to complete the interior of the house (make up the rooms inside) as well.

Although the thought of having a log cabin made by professional craftsmen sounds wonderful there are plenty of advantages to be gained from using those that come in kit form instead. The biggest one of these being that generally these kits cost far less to purchase and can be assembled far more quickly.

Another benefit of going for a log cabin kit is that you are not actually restricted on what shapes the logs are going to be. So although the external walls may be rounded if you want you can go for straight or bevelled ones instead. Plus every log quickly interlocks with the ones above and below as they already come with the tongue and groove joints in them. These joints are not only strong but will help to prevent either water or air from actually penetrating through them and so protecting whatever is to be found inside the property.

However, before you go out and purchase a log cabin kit there are some things which you need to consider and which can help to keep the costs of building such a home down. Below we look at just what some of these are.

1. The first that you need to decide upon is the size of the cabin and how many rooms that you want in it. If you can keep the size and number of rooms down as this will also help to keep your costs down. Plus keeping the size down also will help in the future with saving on the costs of heating, furnishing and maintaining the cabin.

2. Next you need to take into consideration how much the actual cost of assembling the kit is going to be. Remember you need to not only think about the cost of employing people to build the cabin, but also the cost of specialist equipment (cranes for example) that you will need to hire as well. If you do not use the right people or the right equipment then you will not be able to assemble the kit correctly.

3. Also if you can keep your design as simple as possible as the more complicated and intricate the design is the more you will have to pay. Although a cathedral ceiling may look nice it can add quite a lot on to the cost of the various log cabin kits that are available in relation to materials and labour. - 33393

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