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Duncan MacCallum 04-06-2004 10:06 PM

Log cabins
 
Hi,
Anyone with experience of buying log cabins online
willing to offer advice both on ease of building
and quality of product and supplier.
Ideally looking for something 3m x 3m approx.
On delivery do they tend to dump by roadside and leave you
to get on with it?

Any advice much appreciated

Cheers
--
Duncan MacCallum

Nick Maclaren 04-06-2004 11:15 PM

Log cabins
 
In article ,
Duncan MacCallum wrote:
Hi,
Anyone with experience of buying log cabins online
willing to offer advice both on ease of building
and quality of product and supplier.
Ideally looking for something 3m x 3m approx.
On delivery do they tend to dump by roadside and leave you
to get on with it?


The mind boggles! If you are trolling, congratulations on being
the most amusing one I have seen in ages. If you aren't, please
could you fill us in with WHY you want to buy a log cabin online?
And even where in the UK sells such things at all :-)

As you may gather, I can't help with your questions. I assume that
you really DO mean log cabins, and not just timber sheds.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Duncan MacCallum 05-06-2004 12:18 AM

Log cabins
 
In message
(Nick Maclaren) wrote:

In article ,
Duncan MacCallum wrote:
Hi,
Anyone with experience of buying log cabins online
willing to offer advice both on ease of building
and quality of product and supplier.
Ideally looking for something 3m x 3m approx.
On delivery do they tend to dump by roadside and leave you
to get on with it?


The mind boggles! If you are trolling, congratulations on being
the most amusing one I have seen in ages. If you aren't, please
could you fill us in with WHY you want to buy a log cabin online?
And even where in the UK sells such things at all :-)


WHY ? why not online :)
Checkout
www.cabinville.co.uk www.logcabinsgarden-centre.co.uk

also B&Q offer similiar range, just wondering if anyone had actually
bought cabins and had advice to offer

As you may gather, I can't help with your questions. I assume that
you really DO mean log cabins, and not just timber sheds.


I think I mean log cabins Nick but yes thick timber sheds would suffice :)

Regards
--
Duncan MacCallum

[email protected] 05-06-2004 12:19 AM

Log cabins
 
In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
In article ,
Duncan MacCallum wrote:
Hi,
Anyone with experience of buying log cabins online
willing to offer advice both on ease of building
and quality of product and supplier.
Ideally looking for something 3m x 3m approx.
On delivery do they tend to dump by roadside and leave you
to get on with it?


The mind boggles! If you are trolling, congratulations on being
the most amusing one I have seen in ages. If you aren't, please
could you fill us in with WHY you want to buy a log cabin online?
And even where in the UK sells such things at all :-)

As you may gather, I can't help with your questions. I assume that
you really DO mean log cabins, and not just timber sheds.

I think its genuine Nick, lots of people do them including
www.gardenbuildingsdirect.co.uk

I was looking at an advert for two storey large holiday type ones only
last week, priced from 17k including double glazing etc, if you had the
land this must be one of the cheapest ways of getting a habitable
building on it. I am not sure of second home rules, is a log cabin
(temporary building?) treated any differently as far as poll tax etc is
concerned does anyone know?

--
David

Malcolm 05-06-2004 12:19 AM

Log cabins
 
On 4 Jun 2004 22:00:02 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:

In article ,
Duncan MacCallum wrote:
Hi,
Anyone with experience of buying log cabins online
willing to offer advice both on ease of building
and quality of product and supplier.
Ideally looking for something 3m x 3m approx.
On delivery do they tend to dump by roadside and leave you
to get on with it?


The mind boggles! If you are trolling, congratulations on being
the most amusing one I have seen in ages. If you aren't, please
could you fill us in with WHY you want to buy a log cabin online?
And even where in the UK sells such things at all :-)

As you may gather, I can't help with your questions. I assume that
you really DO mean log cabins, and not just timber sheds.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


Dumb troll, you're better sticking with pansies, they suit you.

Duncan MacCallum 05-06-2004 12:21 AM

Log cabins
 
In message
Malcolm wrote:

On 4 Jun 2004 22:00:02 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:

In article ,
Duncan MacCallum wrote:
Hi,
Anyone with experience of buying log cabins online
willing to offer advice both on ease of building
and quality of product and supplier.
Ideally looking for something 3m x 3m approx.
On delivery do they tend to dump by roadside and leave you
to get on with it?


The mind boggles! If you are trolling, congratulations on being
the most amusing one I have seen in ages. If you aren't, please
could you fill us in with WHY you want to buy a log cabin online?
And even where in the UK sells such things at all :-)

As you may gather, I can't help with your questions. I assume that
you really DO mean log cabins, and not just timber sheds.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


Dumb troll, you're better sticking with pansies, they suit you.


Learn from Nick he has much more helpful approach

--
Duncan MacCallum

Malcolm 05-06-2004 12:23 AM

Log cabins
 
On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 22:34:21 GMT, Duncan MacCallum
wrote:

In message
Malcolm wrote:

On 4 Jun 2004 22:00:02 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:

In article ,
Duncan MacCallum wrote:
Hi,
Anyone with experience of buying log cabins online
willing to offer advice both on ease of building
and quality of product and supplier.
Ideally looking for something 3m x 3m approx.
On delivery do they tend to dump by roadside and leave you
to get on with it?

The mind boggles! If you are trolling, congratulations on being
the most amusing one I have seen in ages. If you aren't, please
could you fill us in with WHY you want to buy a log cabin online?
And even where in the UK sells such things at all :-)

As you may gather, I can't help with your questions. I assume that
you really DO mean log cabins, and not just timber sheds.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


Dumb troll, you're better sticking with pansies, they suit you.


Learn from Nick he has much more helpful approach



Sometimes you need to be cruel to be kind.

Kay Easton 05-06-2004 11:11 AM

Log cabins
 
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 09:36:58 +0100, Kay Easton
wrote:

In article , Duncan MacCallum
writes
In message
Malcolm wrote:

Learn from Nick he has much more helpful approach

It's unlikely that anyone who is deliberately forging posts under
someone else's name is going to learn from anyone.



That's a nasty thing to say, how could you? false, malicious gossip
costs lives. I'm sure he'll sue.





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JennyC 05-06-2004 01:05 PM

Log cabins
 

"Duncan MacCallum" wrote

Anyone with experience of buying log cabins online
willing to offer advice both on ease of building
and quality of product and supplier.
Ideally looking for something 3m x 3m approx.
On delivery do they tend to dump by roadside and leave you
to get on with it?


Checkout www.cabinville.co.uk www.logcabinsgarden-centre.co.uk


Hi Duncan,
Seeing as you have addresses that sell cabins, why not ask them ??
Jenny



Duncan MacCallum 05-06-2004 01:06 PM

Log cabins
 
In message
"JennyC" wrote:


"Duncan MacCallum" wrote

Anyone with experience of buying log cabins online
willing to offer advice both on ease of building
and quality of product and supplier.
Ideally looking for something 3m x 3m approx.
On delivery do they tend to dump by roadside and leave you
to get on with it?

Checkout www.cabinville.co.uk www.logcabinsgarden-centre.co.uk


Hi Duncan,
Seeing as you have addresses that sell cabins, why not ask them ??
Jenny

Have done but just thought/hoped folk might be prepared to share
experiences.
But hey perhaps it not that type of ng

regards

--
Duncan MacCallum

dave @ stejonda 05-06-2004 01:09 PM

Log cabins
 
In message , Duncan MacCallum
writes
just thought/hoped folk might be prepared to share
experiences.


maybe no-one has any to offer that are relevant :(

But hey perhaps it not that type of ng


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Jaques d'Alltrades 05-06-2004 05:20 PM

Log cabins
 
The message
from Duncan MacCallum contains these words:
In message
"JennyC" wrote:


Hi Duncan,
Seeing as you have addresses that sell cabins, why not ask them ??
Jenny

Have done but just thought/hoped folk might be prepared to share
experiences.
But hey perhaps it not that type of ng


More likely that urglers aren't into log cabins, so have nothing to share.

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Victoria Clare 09-06-2004 06:59 PM

Log cabins
 
(Nick Maclaren) wrote in
:

Boggle. Not a technology that is terribly well suited to the UK!
But the ingredients are certainly cheap (at source).



I'm not sure why log cabins are particularly unsuitable in the UK?

In Devon we have a tradition of houses that are politely described as
'thatched cob cottages' - if they were somewhere hotter, I reckon that
would translate to 'grass roofed mud hut'.

Tradition or no tradition, mud is a silly building material - a little
neglect, and they just wash away in the rain. Compared with that, timber
seems like quite a sensible building material.

Up the lane from me, there is a bungalow built entirely of wood, which I
understand is about 20 years old. I wouldn't call it a thing of beauty,
but it seems reasonably robust.

Victoria
--
gardening on a north-facing hill
in South-East Cornwall
--

Nick Maclaren 09-06-2004 07:01 PM

Log cabins
 

In article . 24, Victoria Clare writes:
| (Nick Maclaren) wrote in
| :
|
| Boggle. Not a technology that is terribly well suited to the UK!
| But the ingredients are certainly cheap (at source).
|
| I'm not sure why log cabins are particularly unsuitable in the UK?

Damp, woodworm and wet rot. We have 4 months in almost every year
where the relative humidity is nearly 100% and the temperature is
above freezing. Without VERY effective timber treatment (CCA etc.)
and/or a VERY effective damp course, softwoods and most hardwoods
rot in short order near the ground.

All of the SURVIVING timber-framed houses have both a fairly high
stone/brick base AND are made out of expensive and durable woods
like oak heartwood.

Furthermore, until very recently, the UK had few of the straight,
narrow-trunked trees that are suitable for building log cabins.
The native trees are almost all the wrong shape, though coppiced
chestnut etc. would do.

| In Devon we have a tradition of houses that are politely described as
| 'thatched cob cottages' - if they were somewhere hotter, I reckon that
| would translate to 'grass roofed mud hut'.

Yup. I have lived in both.

| Tradition or no tradition, mud is a silly building material - a little
| neglect, and they just wash away in the rain. Compared with that, timber
| seems like quite a sensible building material.

Not really. Putting up a mud hut in central Africa or the fens
would have taken a day's work for a couple of men. So what if it
lasts only 2 years? Just build another. Cob is a lot more work,
but it is very damp-resistant.

Log cabins are a LOT more work, and so need to last correspondinly
longer.

| Up the lane from me, there is a bungalow built entirely of wood, which I
| understand is about 20 years old. I wouldn't call it a thing of beauty,
| but it seems reasonably robust.

Look at the foundations again.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Victoria Clare 10-06-2004 02:58 PM

Log cabins
 
(Nick Maclaren) wrote in
:

Boggle. Not a technology that is terribly well suited to the UK!
But the ingredients are certainly cheap (at source).



I'm not sure why log cabins are particularly unsuitable in the UK?

In Devon we have a tradition of houses that are politely described as
'thatched cob cottages' - if they were somewhere hotter, I reckon that
would translate to 'grass roofed mud hut'.

Tradition or no tradition, mud is a silly building material - a little
neglect, and they just wash away in the rain. Compared with that, timber
seems like quite a sensible building material.

Up the lane from me, there is a bungalow built entirely of wood, which I
understand is about 20 years old. I wouldn't call it a thing of beauty,
but it seems reasonably robust.

Victoria
--
gardening on a north-facing hill
in South-East Cornwall
--


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