“Britt cabin looks lovely. Installer impressed with level of patio base, but still had a bit of a gap in couple of the corners at the top. He suggested we use clear silicone between top of cabin & roof. 2 corners would need a little wedge before siliconing as gap too big to silicone. Also the main opening door at the top isn't completely flush (putting a thumb turn on it). Have painted it grey, looks great”
“Written by a competent diy'er. I gave 4 stars only due to the confusion with the door frame. Took 2 hours to work out which way round the 4 pieces of the door frame connected and which side the doors fit. Basically the top and bottom pieces needed transposing. With a couple of phone calls and emails it was sorted. I worked it out myself in between while making the calls and emails. I suggest the door frame has some sort of letters code ie a fits to a, b fits to b etc. this would of saved me 2 hours. The rest of the lodge went up no problem. The roof has a couple of gaps next to the top of the walls. But it does say somewhere on the website/ video you may need to plain off some of the top of the walls depending on what time of year you erect the lodge due to shrinkage and expansion. I only read this after the roof was on so a bead will need fixing to bridge the gap. No big deal. It's worth laying the shingles out in a couple of rows to get the best size cuts on the ends. I started after watching the video and ended up with quite a small cut shingle at one end. Looks Ok but a bit fiddly to cut straight. All in all a good product. Do read as much off the website and definitely watch the video of the two guys erecting one of the cabins beforehand. Built ours in the middle of some trees on a raised decking and feels like we're in a tree house. It's brilliant. Going to insulate the floor and roof as we intend to use it all year round. I will upload some pics when it's complete. We treated ours with two coats of Dulux Trade Aquatech Preservative Basecoat Plus (each piece was coated on all six side once then the second coat when the cabin was erected. This is the correct base coat to apply Dulux trade opaque stain which gives a 10 year guarantee. We used 3 x 2.5 L tins of the base coat because the first coat covered all sides of each board. Works out expensive but hopefully it will outlast me. Not chose the colour yet to paint the inside and outside. But will post pic when finished on the fb page as I said earlier.”
“Cabin was delivered before christmas but due to our wild wether was not started until the New Year. My husband too 3 x 1/2 days to build apart from trimming. door frame was a problem and instructions are inadequate and consideration should be given to upgrading these. quality is excellent, packaging was great. minor issue with one of the Apex frames as it would not fit flush for roof panels but easily overcome with a little trimming. Overall I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Tuin's and their products.”
“I have recently finished the Britt log cabin. Delivery was on time and the cabin was well packaged. Once we got the bearers level the main cabin went up in no time with 3 of us on it. Unpackaged, built and half the shingles on in a day. Really pleased with the finished result. Great quality and robust. They did substitute some planks for a larger width which didnt tally through with the instructions. No big deal, but at the time we thought we were missing some pieces.”
