Did you know you can put an affordable log cabin extension onto your house without planning permission? If you use one of our well insulated log cabins to build a log cabin extension to your house, you might find it very affordable, quick to build and easy to heat. It’s a very straightforward job as long as you have a good builder to break through the wall of your own house and connect to one of our quality log cabins.
You could use any of our one bed, two bed or three bed log cabins directly as an extension to your existing home, or you could modify the ones we offer, such as our Multi-choice two bed log cabin.
Straightforward Log Cabin Build
It’s a very straightforward operation to put a log cabin extension onto an existing building. And you can use any of our one bedroom, two bedroom, and three bedroom log cabins as extensions . These can also be modified to suit your particular needs and your site, as per our range of bespoke log cabins .
Most importantly, you need a suitable face/wall of your building Which suits the connecting of a log cabin extension. Once you have a suitable site for your log cabin extension, you need to get a builder to put in a base of concrete which is 5 inches thick. We will give exact measurement of this space. It is important that the base is a 10 mil narrower all round then they lock have in itself so that water runs freely off the log cabin and away from the timber. This is done we can pretty much guarantee that there will be no fear of rot through the log cabin base. A crucial design detail on all our log cabins and has been a fail safe in this area.
Very Quick Build
From the point of order to the completed construction should not take more than three months with our log cabin extensions. Generally, we spend three days on site building the exterior of the cabin, walls, windows, doors and ceiling boards. Then we depart from the site for a week to 10 days. During this break, the client should organise to have his plumber and electrician do their first fix of wires and pipes. This is completed, we can return to site to finish off the log cabin itself. This means putting all of the insulation into the floors walls and roof, installing the roof cover, the timber floors on the inside and of course the interior walls.
Underfloor heating is an option in your log cabin extension
Many people are asking nowadays if it is possible to put on the floor heating in a log cabin. The low is a photograph of a very innovative and attractive installation of under for heating in a log cabin house extension which we completed this year. As you can see from the photograph, the one before heating screed has been covered with attractive orange brick. We are really looking forward to seeing this room when it is tidied up and lived in. It is going to be quite the striking addition to this log cabin extension.
Connecting to an existing building
Connecting your log cabin extension to your existing building is actually quite straightforward, as can be seen in the photograph below. In fact there are a number of ways that you can build your connecting corridor between the old and new building. What is shown below is a plywood wall which is due to be covered in insulation and cement board before final rendering.
Other methods for building your connecting corridor include using block, with a similar roof to that shown on the log cabin itself. The most attractive to some people is to use a double glazed corridor between old and new building. The important thing to remember is the height of the gutter run if you are going in at the side of a log cabin. Any builder can solve this problem but it Might not be straightforward and it is important to make sure all water can run easily off the roof of this connecting corridor.
If you have any questions about any of the options in relation to log carbon extensions or log cabins in general, please feel free to call us at any of our show houses, in counties Carlow, Roscommon, Cork, Galway and Limerick. All of us at these log cabin showrooms would be delighted to talk you through all of your questions and explain all of the options that are available to you. Are sure that you will be quite surprised with the affordability, quality and longevity of our super one, two and three bed log cabin homes.
