Installation guide to insulating a Log Cabin

Floor and Roof Installation for your log cabin

If you wish to insulate your cabin the following guide has been made to help this process.

Floor insulation

We recommend using a Celotex or equivalent foil back polyurethane board. The boarding needs to sit tight beneath the floorboards to achieve good insulation.

To achieve this the boards need to be suspended between the 4x2 bearers that the cabin sits on. They can be supported by nails, screws or 2 x 1 battens.

An alternative way is to lay the boards on 2x2 treated timber (this is not supplied in the insulation kit).

1. Fix nails screws or battens onto 4 x 2 bearers.

2. Cut insulation with handsaw so that it fits snugly in between the 4 x 2 bearers. The Insulation should be supported above the base so that it sits level with the top of the bearers directly under the floor.

Roof insulation

• The roof boards will need to be fixed on the cabin before the roof insulation is installed.
• The cabin is then battened out with the 2 x 2 supplied. The first row to install will be the running Horizontally across the bottom of the roof line.
• Another row will then be installed running across the top of the ridge line.
• Now starting from one end of the roof the battens are then fixed (into purlins) running horizontally at 600mm spaces.
• The rock wool is now installed between battens.
• The 8 x 4 sheets of OSB are then fixed into the battens.
• Roofing option supplied is now fixed to seal the cabin