“My Dyre log cabin was delivered in early June 2021, the delivery company were excellent and were able to manoeuvre the pack down a narrow drive and dropped it close to the concrete base that had been prepared for the cabin. On opening the pack the only damage found was a cracked window. I logged on to the Tuin website and reported this there. It was immediately picked up and arrangements were made to replace this via a local glazier. The Tuin website has good articles and videos on how to erect cabins, lay floors and fit shingles. It is certainly worth the time going through these a few times in advance of the build. My plan was to build the cabin over a weekend and finish the roof and flooring after that. In fact it was much quicker than expected taking only 6 hours for the main build. The reason for this was a builder friend came along to help and prepared the job methodically. He unpacked and checked all the parts against the list. Laid them where they would be used (front, back and sides). He then spent a lot of time ensuring the base was level and square. Once we got started it was just a case of moving round and round the cabin clicking each of the planks in place and hammering them down to ensure they were level. This certainly speeded up the build and the quality and fit of all the parts were first class. My builder friend was so impressed with the quality and ease of installation that he went and ordered a larger cabin for himself. Would definitely recommend Tuin for quality of build, website information and help available throughout the build. Well done.”
“while the purchasing delivery and contact with the sales team and delivery team was great problems did occur during the build with parts being cut wrong and parts delivered wrong and gable ends and roof beams not marrying correctly.”
“Superb from start to finish. We did tons of research with several companies before placing our order for the Dyre 4x3M, and I'm glad we didn't go for any of Tuin's competitors. Ordering was easy, delivery was straightforward, and assembly was pretty simple (I'm a good all round DIYer, but never built anything like a shed before). My takeaways from the whole process are, be methodical, lay out what your next process is going to be so you can visualise how it should look, and follow the instructions. I tried to improvise part way through the build because of a lack of time and working in freezing sleet, and became a bit unstuck, and had to undo a couple of my processes (moving the window height, and the fastening method for the door surrounds). Once I'd sorted my own errors it went together like it was designed to. We opted to insulate the floor and roof with 50mm Celotex type boards, as this is a home office all year round, and the building keeps a very comfortable and far more even temperature through summer and winter extremes with no condensation or expansion. The double glazing helps a lot, and the logs fit very well together. The whole structure is completely water tight, far beyond my expectations of a wooden building. I'd totally recommend Tuin to anyone, the cabin really has added another room to our house, and the price was excellent in comparison to other suppliers. Superb value and quality. The blogs are so useful too.”
“We've had cabin from Tuin before and were really happy with it. It was a 58mm log but this time we chose a 40mm log and there is a big difference. The 58mm is much more obust but that's not to say we're unhappy with the latest one, it's just not quite so solid. However, it all went together very well and it's now in regular use. Recommended.”
“Dyre log cabin . I bought the cabin after reading lots of reviews and I can say for the price it is brilliant. I had purchased a smaller cabin from another firm and there is no comparison! The base, walls and roof beams took me 3 hours to erect but the roof boards took the best part of a day due to branches/trees in my way. The doors and window were easy to fit. I painted/ spayed all the outer walls with Cuprinol silver copse ducksback paint before I fitted the window and doors as they are painted cream and it looks fantastic. I did fit a rubber roof membrane instead of shingles as I am going to create a cinema room. I will post some pictures soon. Although I have a lot of joinery experience the build is not complicated and Turin do have tutorial videos on YouTube the are very helpful. I can only repeat what others inc Tuin have stated .... sorting the logs in size before you start and and reading the instructions re sizes is a must, once you get the base in the walls slot together really nice. The build is only as good as the ground it is sat on, it needs to be flat and strong enough to take the weight as the pallet delivery note states that the cabin weighed well over 700kg almost 800kg if remember rightly. I appreciate a company who does what it says on the tin and Tuin have been that in my experience .”
“After taking time to research and read through the best option for us we went for the Dyre due to the additional space, price and thickness of the logs. I am glad we did prior to the cabin arriving I asked a lot of questions I had also ordered the composite base and additional flooring. The overall service was smooth, people-focused, friendly and fairly easy. I received a response to my emails at least within 24 hours of sending, I was kept up-to-date with my order even when there was a delay with delivery (this actually worked in my favour) and when the cabin was due to arrive was provided with clear instructions to what to expect in regards to the couriers. On arrival, the cabin was placed on my drive as requested this was all done at a distance due to covid restrictions. I didn't start the build until a few days after delivery and took a picture of the delivery label as Tuin suggest, checked the package for tears covering with brown tape. As for the build I trusted the process and read through the blogs on the site which offered the best advice, especially the recommendation to sort out the logs by size etc. Once I got started the build was fairly simple and where I hit a roadblock or struggled it was usually related to not reading the instructions in full or I started to overthink the build for example it took me an afternoon setting out the base properly as I was overthinking if it needed levelling out etc... I had already checked the base prior and because I overthought wasted a lot of time for no reason. Once I started the build it was fairly simple I had a couple of warped logs which were easily fixed through watching the guidance on tuins site. The overall build took me on my own 5 days to complete I didn't do full days until I started doing the roof and it started to pour down with rain on one of the days although I could have continued the build I wimped out. The build was fairly simple where I would offer advice or reflection as good as the composite beams are I would probably have ordered the wooden profiles as I feel they would have been easier to cut by hand, I decided to insulate the roof and floor which I think was worth it but allow extra time, the roof boards & felting are the most time-consuming part of the build, the instructional video tuin have is good but does to included everything such as building up the rafters these come in sections, fixing the frame around the door and window and finally when felting try to do this when weather is cool if possible as the sun came out and started to soften the shingles the job of cutting and laying became more challenging as the shingles became softer and more delicate to handle. I am very happy with my cabin, I would recommend and buy from tuin again if you are a non-trade person and have limited DIY skills like me no worries these cabins are that simple to build. I am happy with the service, purchase and finished build.”
“Overall I was very happy with the Lodge. I built it myself using the instructions which are a bit vague but as you built the structure you start to understand them more. I had one issue which was with the apex angle didn't match the Lodge dimensions which resulted in a mismatch with the Lodge sides and resulted in sawing the apex to match the frame dimensions . I did contact the help line , they said it was due to wood swelling . How the apex part did this by 35mm I don't know due to all parts being stored in same place?. I just think it was made wrong in first place as all the joints in it where very roughly cut not nice clean cuts like the rest of Lodge. Besides that everything else when and fitted well.”
