Category: Log Cabin Finance

Discover flexible financing options for your timber log cabin, making your dream home more accessible than ever.

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March Madness Log Cabin Sale

Big log cabin sale bargains in March 2024

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March Madness Log Cabins

We are offering HUGE savings on our three most popular log cabins this March, 2024. This is a log cabin sale not to be missed! You can see all of the model log cabins for sale on our IN STOCK page.

Save €2,000 on our Limerick Two Bedroom Log cabin

Our Limerick log cabin is the most popular 2 bed log cabin in our log cabin sale range.

two bedroom log cabin plan

It has the perfect layout as a small starter home or holiday cabin. With a fine sized kitchen and living area, along with 2 bedrooms and a convenient bathroom, this cabin is a best seller for good reason.

This cabin is well insulated with a double wall including 100mm cavity filled with insulation, along with roof and floor insulation. The layout of this cabin can be altered easily by extending the back bedrooms by a metre. This is often the choice made by customers, as the extra meter makes an significant change to the usability of the bedroom, giving lots of extra storage space with a slide robe on the end wall. Unfortunately, this slide robe is not supplied by us!

Tullow Three Bedroom Log Cabin – SAVE €6,000

3D plans of 3 bed tullow log cabin

You can save a remarkable €6000 on our Tullow 3 bedroom log cabin.

This carbon can be viewed at our Tullow showrooms in Carlow, and also at our showrooms in Carrigaline, County Cork.

Save €8,000 on our Adare Three Bedroom Log Cabin

Adare 3 bed log cabin Room Plan

The Adare 3 bedroom log cabin has become a huge favorite amongst customers who are looking for something a little extra in their new log cabin home.

Similar to the Tullow 3 bedroom log cabin, the Adare is a modified version of this, extended by over 3 metres to include an ensuite bathroom and utility. This significant extension in the cabins length has made this an unbeatable design for most of our newer customers. And with an unbelievable €8000 off, this is an offer that is not to be missed!

Delivery in Six Weeks!

Not only are we offering unbelievable discounts on our flagship models in this log cabin sale, We can also offer delivery within six weeks, because we have a number of these particular models in stock at the moment. So, if you’re interested, come and see us at our showrooms around the country as soon as possible. This offer is not going to last forever, and it is an absolute steal!

Come visit us!

We have We have showrooms We have showrooms all We have showrooms all around the We have showrooms all around the country, in Cork, Carlow, Limerick, Galway and Roscommon. Take a look at the showrooms page on the website and you will get exact locations and contact phone numbers.

Make your appointment straight away and come see us as soon as you can!

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How much log cabin deposit should you pay? NOT 50%!

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What size log cabin deposit should you pay?

Your log cabin is a major investment for you, so you will need to sort out your finances before you buy. As they say in business, cash flow is critical. And the first payment you make, your log cabin deposit, can really restrict your cash flow if the deposit is too high.

Don’t pay more than €4,000 log cabin deposit

Some log cabin companies in Irland regularly charge up to 50% deposit for their log cabins. We were really shocked to hear about this. Fifty per cent. WOW!

At Timberliving log cabins, we don’t charge more than €4,000 log cabin deposit for most of our log cabins. We believe it is a matter of trust with our customers. We want them to feel assured that we are a trustworthy business, for whom log cabin quality is paramount. Of course, we are in business and want to turn a profit, but we don’t believe it is right to charge someone 50% or more log cabin deposit, at the first stage of a project, when a customer might have to wait a number of weeks before seeing anything built for them.

Be careful who you give your log cabin deposit to.

Here is a very sorry tale…

Just want to get it out there if your thinking of getting a cabin . I can’t think of a better way to warn people who are looking. Than to use a competitor site as at wits end. This comment is in no way related to Timber Living Ltd.
There’s a company called LogCabins4Less based in Kilkenny. Absolute scam artists. Ordered our cabin May 2020 it’s paid in full but still not up over a year later. The website looks great but it’s all to draw you in. Once they have your money they don’t want to know. Don’t even answer the phone and blocked me from their Facebook page. So can’t give this feedback there to tell of the terrible experience with them.
What a sorry tale of woe! Someone posted it on the Timberliving Facebook page. Imagine how they must feel! More than twelve months after paying the FULL AMOUNT for their log cabin (that’s a 100% log cabin deposit!) and still nothing built! And to add insult to injury, they won’t even take their calls and offer an explanation. Nobody wants to go down a legal route, but I wonder what other options these people have at this stage?
 

Why should a log cabin deposit be high?

There is no reason for a company to look for a very large log cabin deposit, unless they are in a difficult position financially. Generally, these log cabins are produced by factories in Scandanavia. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. These log cabin companies offer credit to the agent companies in Ireland. The Irish-based companies normally don’t have to pay the factories until the customers pay them, so why the need for a fifty per cent deposit. It makes no sense.
I would advise that if a company is looking for such a large log cabin deposit, be very, very wary.

At Timber Living, we have been building log cabins for over 25 years, and we never needed to look for large log cabin deposits. We were always able to manage our clients’ projects and provide them with high quality, cost effective, easily heated and long lasting log cabins, without extracting large deposits at the start of their log cabin project. And that is the way that it should be.

Be sure to contact us if you have any queries, financial or otherwise, and make an appointment at any of our showhouses around the country.

Take care:-)

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Financing your log cabin

A log cabin from Timber Living Log Cabins Ireland is a great investment – half the price of building with block – but its still a lot of money. So, what’s the best loan option out there?

Financing your log cabin

How do you finance a log cabin?

The ways things are nowadays, it seems harder and harder to get loans for anything these days, especially when it comes to your residential needs. Which makes you wonder why banks are so picky about lending for log cabins – surely these people – who are so careful with money – should be a lot more eager about log cabins, since they are such good value!

 

We have many customers coming to us buying log cabins, and there are myriad ways in which they finance their log cabins. If people are lucky enough to have sufficient savings, they may only need a top-up loan, which is usually asy to get. Others manage to borrow from family, with a promise to pay back rent-sized amounts every month for a fixed period of time.

 

But if you have to go through official channels, what are the options for buying a log cabin?

 

A Credit Union Loan for your Log Cabin?

Have you thought about a Credit Union Loan for your log cabin? (Read more about Credit Union loans here.)

There’s a notion going about that you have to be a member of a Credit Union before you can get a loan. This is not the case with every Credit Union. Each Credit Union is different, and is run soley for the benefit of its members, rather than for the benefit of its shareholders.

Because each Credit Union is different, they can decide individually who to give loans to, and what to give loans for. Many of our customers have financed their log cabins with Credit Union loans, without a problem

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Will Your Local C.U. finance your log cabin?

Well, the first thing you need to do is find where your nearest Credit Union is. You can find a full list of Credit Unions here: https://www.creditunion.ie/credit-union-locator/ There are 326 Credit Unions in Ireland, so you’re bound to have one nearby. And there’s nothing to stop you enquiring for a loan from more than one Credit Union.

 

How to Appy for a Log Cabin Loan

There’s a very simple to use Loan Application systema available on the Credit Union website: https://www.creditunion.ie/enquire-about-a-loan/

Just fill out the form and send off your request – it couldn’t be easier :-)

 

Can you get a mortgage for a log cabin?

Normally, banks will not offer mortgages for log cabins. There are a few issues, not least the fact that cabins are often not expensive enough to qualify for a mortgage. Its almost as if the banks don’t want to encourage the Log Cabin market, because they wouldn’t make as much money out of it as they are currently making out of the housing market. Could that be the reason?!

 

How much is it to buy a log cabin?

When purchasing your log cabin from Timber Living Log Cabins Ireland, there are other costs that you will need ot figure in to your financial plan. Let’s consider one of our favourite cabins, the Sutton Two Bed Cabin. There’s the cost of the cabin itself, currently on sale for €28,000, delivered, built and fully insulated, VAT included. On top of that price (assuming you already wn the site) you will need to install a 5 inch concrete base. You will also need to factor in the cost of electrics, plumbing and a heating system. After that there’s all of the fixtures and fittings, sanitary ware, kitchen, and other furnishings. You will need to connect to water and electricity supply, and have somewhere for your grey water and sewerage waste. Finally, I should mention that we don’t supply gutters.

 

Log Cabin Showrooms

Before buying a log cabin, it man=kes emminent sense to actually go aloong to a showroom and see exactly what you’re thinking of buying. Many, many people who visit the Timber Living Log cabin Showrooms here in Boyle are first time visitors to log cabins. It is always quite a revalation to people when they come to a log cabin for the first time.

 

Timber Living Log cabin Showroom, serving Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Donegal

People are initially surprised by the size of the Boyle Log Cabin Showroom interior. They are always very pleased with the soothing atmosphere which the wooden interior walls give – I think there is a bit of sound muffling due to the timber surfaces – one of those things you don’t really notice, but which is different to what people are used to…

I had one visitor, Johnny, who had already visited a couple of log cabin companies. He spent the first five minutes of his visit not saying much, but just walking through the different rooms of the show house, and walking heavily in different spots. Finally he said “I’m trying to find squeaks in your floor. How come your floor doesn’t squeak, when the other showhouses do?”

 

What is the best log cabin near me?

Well, Johnny had found the best log cabin company (us!) but we were not the nearest to him. Anyway, he felt it was worth a trip to us here in Boyle, because he wanted floors that didn’t squeak!

We have showhouses in Boyle, Co Roscommon, Tullow, Co Carlow, and Carrigaline, Co Cork. So I imagine we’re within a couple of hours of you. Come and visit us, and you can see for yourself what I am talking about.