Log cabin as a retirement dwelling?

[difflock]

For a Co. Antrim location.

In the notion of something that could be hired out as a holiday let until we decide to move in .

We have a suitable site already.

Thoughts, suggestions or recommendations please.

Marcus

 

[harvey b davison]

For a Co. Antrim location.
In the notion of something that could be hired out as a holiday let until we decide to move in .
We have a suitable site already.
Thoughts, suggestions or recommendations please.
Marcus
 

Would love to have a log cabin as a retirement home, but in Scotland.

[difflock]

Seeing as wor daughter found reason to stay an extra week up Aberdeen direction  .  .  .

Scotland may beckon to us too?

[tim361]

We had this built this year. Two blokes built it from scratch in 12 weeks. Cost just over £100k, but that full finished with central heating, two bathrooms, kitchen etc.... ready to move into. 

[Billhook]

We built this in 2000.  Wooden ways did a full scribe log cabin course on the farm here using poplar that had been planted by my father in 1960 for the match industry.  The millennium came and fewer folk smoked and those that did used butane so there were a lot of poplars looknig for a home. 

I had heard from somebody living in Oregon that the ultimate cabin there was made from poplar and that there was a Church built of it that was 120 years old.  Dan Franklin and his team came and I think were pleased to work with poplar for a change and the result is a 25 foot by 15 foot cabin that you see in his cabin photos one and three by the lake with the swans.

It is really only a place we go to enjoy the lake with friends over a beer or two but I highly recommend Dan and his skill.

If you have a good source of timber locally all the better but I would hope that there is plenty around in your part of the world.

The cabin is now twenty years old and because it sits on six great lumps of sandstone and therefore is away from moisture and has plenty of air underneath, there is no sign of rot.

My wife and I have stayed in a fully developed cabin in Washington State and you have to be aware that sound travels along the wood, so be careful what you say or do!  But a lovely feeling. especially for those who have worked with wood for a living.

 

Log Cabins | Woodenways

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[difflock]

4 hours ago, tim361 said:

We had this built this year. Two blokes built it from scratch in 12 weeks. Cost just over £100k, but that full finished with central heating, two bathrooms, kitchen etc.... ready to move into. 

Looks good, what sort of size though?

[tim361]

It’s 7.5m wide by 22m long. Largest size the can come under mobile home planning if you need to make life easier with the planners. We’ve got two double bedrooms and two bathrooms. The one we went to look at before agreeing to the build had 4 bedrooms, 1 very large double and three single and they were still a pretty good size. 

[difflock]

Plenty big enough then, how is it constructed?, or what way are the walls made up?

[tim361]

Outside to in its softwood cladding, baton, tyvex, Osb, the a 6”x2” framing and stud work with celotex, plaster board and plaster. 
They build the whole thing on site from scratch.  

[Craig Johnson]

4 hours ago, tim361 said:

Outside to in its softwood cladding, baton, tyvex, Osb, the a 6”x2” framing and stud work with celotex, plaster board and plaster. 
They build the whole thing on site from scratch.  

link to company please