Dalmunzie Log Cabin

 

At Dalmunzie, Glenshee, we constructed a log cabin kit that was manufactured and shipped direct to us from Tibutare in Estonia from the Palmatin Wooden House Company. The cabin is manufactured using Northern European Spruce, which is an extremely stable timber and is then machined using a digital CNC machine to make all the interlocking parts to form the houses structure. It is like building a full-sized Lego house. The construction method used, as can be seen from the pictures, is that each ring of the cabin must be completed before starting the next ring, due to the interlocking design. Once four rings have been built, you then drive large wooden dowels into pre-drilled holes in order to bind together vertically each row of logs. Once all the walls have been constructed, a large two sectioned laminated timber beam is then hoisted to the ridge before rafters can be installed to the ridge beam. Due to the solid timber construction of the cabin, movement in the timber must be accounted for. The rafters that make up the roof are therefore attached to the laminated ridge beam, but at the exterior walls a sliding rafter plate must be used, to stop the building doing any damage to itself in the everchanging weather of Glenshee.  This solid timber building was assembled with its alucald windows and doors also supplied from Palmatin in four weeks, from the delivery of the cabin in five articulated lorries direct from the factory to being wind and watertight. Given that this is a more ecological way of building and that solid timber has better thermal efficiency than almost all other insulation materials on the market, we should maybe consider more of this type of building in the UK like our other Northern European neighbours.

 

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