“The whole Tuin experience was excellent from start to finish. The website was extensive with everything you could wish to know. The sales staff were pleasant and helpful in ensuring you got what you wanted, along with all the information needed to achieve an efficient delivery. The driver of the huge delivery lorry manoeuvred his associated fork lift into position to place the packaged building snugly onto our drive. Turins recommended installers arrived next morning and by 4pm the building was complete. The painting of the summerhouse took me a good few days and this helped me to appreciate the quality of the engineering involved in the manufacture of these buildings and I would not hesitate to recommend to anyone.”
“First things first, I am not a talented carpenter, builder, diy expert etc, I am your normal run of the mill desk worker. The Log Cabin was delivered on time and left as requested to the side of our drive. Shed base was already prepared in concrete by a friendly builder. Took me about 2 hours to single-handedly move piece by piece to the back garden; lay out logically and start to absorb instructions. By end of first day, the cabin was up to waist height, was square (Pythagoras) and was solid. Very easy to make very fast progress building the walls. I was joined by a friend for Day 2, and we progressed up to full height, installed windows/door and installed roof rafters (the first time nails were required). To complete the roof boards took another full day and I'm in process of adding shingle tiles now (which will take another 2 days total). Safe estimation for a full build by a complete beginner ... 5 days. I am slow though and am enjoying getting it right. Areas for improvement ... instructions really are basic, but actually enough once you get going. The door frame has to be constructed and in my opinion could be more robust. That said, now installed, it seems fine. The roof boards fit pretty well but anticipate some fine tuning (with a saw) to get just right (perhaps my corner angles were 89.5 degrees and not 90!). Shingles are very very gritty (they shed a lot), but look fantastic when on. All in all, I have really enjoyed the build. The cabin is looking great and seems to be very robust. Now have to treat the timber for winter.”
“My son, and son-in-law and myself built this cabin over two days , after we had looked at the Instructions and laid out the pieces of wood we found it was easy going. You need to take your time and it does help if your son in law is a carpenter but we got the cabin watertight after the second day. Instructions and laid out the pieces of wood we found it was easy going. As long as you have your base level the cabin goes up smoothly. These are made extremely well and the end result is a good strong Logcabin I highly recommend you look at their brochure and they are a very good price .”
“Overall, we are totally chuffed with the summer house and the final build; we think it is very good value for money. It is now winter and so we have to finish painting the outside, getting the indoor furnished and the outside paving finished, but looking forward to doing this next spring. I would say that the overall build was pretty straight forward although there are a couple of points I can raise. The drop in window frames were very easy to install. With regards to the doors, looking at all the website information, I think at some point in the past Tuin have offered the door frame in the same format? The frame pieces supplied took some time to figure out (instructions are not the best) and I would say the quality/robustness does not match the rest of the supply. We also were missing two lengths of roof support beams - we adapted in order to get the build finished (rather than contacting Tuin, which would have meant a delay in finishing). We had a small issue when we found one of the long (5.0m) back wall boards had split in the middle at the interlock. When we explained this to your technical team, they would have been happy to send a replacement, but explained that one split board would not be a problem and so we took their advice and fitted it and it is fine - thank you. We ran out of shingles, but ordered a pack and they arrived very quickly so that we could finish the roof - thank you. All in all, very happy with the cabin. We don't have a big garden, but it fits in well and looks like it has always been there; I especially like the outdoor covered area - looking forward to using this for BBQ's (even in the rain!). We can send photos if you advise how to do so. Thank you, Grant”
“We researched getting a log cabin for quite some months, we nearly bought a different cabin which would have been erected for us but the cost was twice as much, we didn't go for that and especially after reading the Tuin instructions of how to build the cabin and watching the video a couple of times we decided on the Kennet. We made a six inch thick concrete plinth because a hot tub will go under the open area, then ordered the cabin. Ordering was easy and the free roofing shingles were a billy bonus, the articulated lorry turned up earlier than expected and the delivery driver could not do enough, we had a delivery of stones at the same time and the Tuin chap unloaded the stones off the other lorry and placed them exactly where we wanted them, the Tuin package was huge. We unpacked it and placed all the bits on the second plinth we had made, it is six meters by two, the most important thing was to get the base absolutely level and square, the first set of logs were attached and after that the rest went on in very quick order, after a few hours we were up to eaves height. The next day we put the rafters on, a couple of sash clamps helped here to put the ridge beam in place and level, the purlins are all different lengths as I found out and most of them fix to the King pins, they fitted very well. The roof boards went on easily with very little cutting required but I did do some. The shingles went on very easily and the only thing I would say was when you are putting them on, the last few at the top near the ridge put them on in turn so that there is lots of interlocking of different planes as they come together, like a rose as richard says in his instructions. I cut two large circles for each end and attached them with copper nails as I had some. Now the painting is to be done inside and out, all in all it was as has been described, it's easy, not without the confusion at times when we didn't know how things went together such as the door frame but again, there was an instruction on the Tuin website and the support, we only used it once was very quick, within an hour. All in all I would most definately recommend the Kennet, it's the proverbial dogs and looks superb.”
“I wouldn't say it was easy to erect but my wife and I ,both mid sixties managed over a couple of weeks an almost professional job. Really pleased with the results.”
