In this blog series we will be providing you with top tips for looking after your Summerhouse. At Cabins Unlimited we make sure we supply all our amazing customers with all the information needed to look after their timber buildings.
Even though your new summerhouse may be enjoying its new, fancy location, work never ends here. To avoid difficulties, log cabins need routine care; if you keep up with the maintainance, your building will endure much longer than you anticipate! While a maintenance-free structure would be ideal, all the qualities of wood that we know and love would be lost.
Door and Window Adjustments:
It is predicted that occasionally the expansion and contraction may cause the floating frame windows and doors on log cabins to move out of alignment or out of square. The doors are equipped with easy-to-use adjustable hinges to support this, which may be operated as shown in the diagram below using a little allen key.
The window hinges are frequently the same as the door hinges, although occasionally different hardware is supplied, which typically implies there is enough tolerance to allow for movement in the frame itself.
DO NOT STRESS - Our teams who installed the building for you will be able to either give you guidance over the phone or even pop out and adjust the windows and doors for you if you have excessive movement and are unable to do so yourself. It is an easy and quick task.
We advise buying a turn button or sliding bolt that can be easily connected to the top or bottom of your doors if you discover a little bend in them that is allowing a very small amount of daylight into the building. This is only necessary if you can't eliminate the daylight by adjusting the doors. Due to the nature of our doors, this is an extremely uncommon incident but it does happen occasionally. If you do install one of these, if it is kept closed while not in use, it will eventually warp back to where it should be!