morning everybody sunday morning here such a lovely day so i thought why don't i just
smash out this cabin.
i don't know if i can get it done in the day but we'll have a go.
surely!
so where i'm standing now will be one cabin and down the other end there will be the other
cabin.
in the middle here will be a forecourt area.
kitchen and lounge we're going to build that by hand ourselves once the two cabins are
up
the main reason why we even got these is because they're so well priced and because we've already
built one we know what they're like.
in the winter they're perfectly fine and in the summer they're nice and cool so nothing
to worry about with their thickness it's just fine.
so those two planks of wood i've just put the on the ground we'll run the full span
of the back of the cabin which is 5.4 meters long.
so i've just made a little stack there that's going to be the outside wall
so pretty much the whole cabin clips together like lego.
nice and easy like i don't even think we used a saw, made any cuts on the last cabin we
done.
everything fit together perfectly and there was some extra pieces left over at the end
of it.
so we hope to have the same experience with this one i'm sure we will
and we're going to most definitely have some leftover pieces because the concrete floor,
is going to be our floor.
so the floorboards and joists that come with this cabin will be put to use elsewhere.
so we've got a plan we're going to build the two cabins the flooring that's left over from
either side we're going to use it as ceiling boards in the middle.
so we've just been positioning everything getting it into individual stacks to make
it nice and easy for when we start putting them together.
we've got the roof beams here the side walls are there.
the two walls that go either side of the sliding doors there so right in the corner of the
building here we've got this big gap underneath.
but what we need to do is rip down the groove so you got the tongue on top, the groove on
the bottom.
we're going to rip it down and that should be flush on the corner then it'll sit down
nice and flat and this gap should be gone over here.
now that we've got the base layer in we're just going to go around start putting together
the "lego"
super happy with how everything's going we've pretty much done all the walls to a certain
height now we've got a few of these rafters there to put up so we're going to put them
up on the edges and then start running the beams through the roof and then we can put
our ceiling on top of that
but no issues so far, nothing major
these cabins are super easy to put up and we've probably gone and voided all the warranties
because we're just making cuts and custom making it.
but we love these cabins because they're super simple to do that when you want to put a door
in or window you just literally cut out a hole in the wall and everything's self-supporting
because the other beams there run all the way through.
so it's no drama is just whacking a hole anywhere so we plan to put windows in certain spots
doors gonna have a door over in that corner so that we can walk into the kitchen and lounge.
then we plan to whack a hole in this wall and build out a walk-in wardrobe as well.
heaps of plans um that's the beauty of these cabins is you can kind of do what you want
to them but yeah like i say you'd probably miss out on any warranty but who cares 15
grand NZD for this that's pretty cheap and it's 20 square meters.
probably get three queen size beds in here if you wanted to we'll probably have a queen
size and a single for our little boy.
big family bed that's the plan anyway.
and no regrets at all with the concrete, still need to clean it all up because we've been
walking on it got clay and dirt everywhere.
clean it up give it a polish but it just looks so good the nice neutral gray goes well goes
super well with the wood.so this lockwood style and that color is going to stay that
color on the inside but on the outside it's going to be black.