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General| Brand | Tiger |
|---|---|
| Model | Caspian |
| Category | Garden Houses |
| Language | English |
Crucial advice and checks before commencing assembly.
Explains timber behaviour due to weather and recommended treatments.
Guidance on ensuring a firm, level, and correctly sized base.
Illustrates and describes suitable base construction options.
Emphasizes the need for two competent adults and safety gloves.
Highlights UK manufacturing and FSC certification.
Details the optional professional installation service and contact info.
Lists essential tools not included with the kit.
Details the specific screws, nails, and bolts provided.
Instructions for safely unpacking and preparing parts.
Advises checking all parts against the construct diagram and cutting list.
Key advice on base readiness, part condition, and installation scheduling.
Guide to unpacking, organizing, and identifying logs.
Explains log interlocking and proper tongue and groove fitting.
Instructions for assembling the four door frame components.
Details on joining frame sections and fitting the door sill and head.
Guidance on placing tanalised bearers according to the floor plan.
Instructions for spacing bearers approximately 400mm apart.
Placing the initial layer of logs on the bearers, ensuring correct orientation.
Method for checking and ensuring the cabin floor is square diagonally.
Instructions for screwing logs into the tanalised bearers.
Laying floorboards with specific gaps for expansion.
Notes on not fully securing floorboards initially to maintain squareness.
Instructions for interlocking logs to build walls up to eaves height.
Advice on storing floorboards to ensure they fit later.
Sliding the assembled doors and frame into place.
Important safety note on the weight of doors and windows.
Placing windows centrally and ensuring gaps for settling.
Emphasizes base firmness for preventing door/window twisting.
Instructions for positioning gable tops on the eaves height logs.
Guidance on placing purlins with angled cuts facing downwards.
Details on using N65 fixings to secure purlins.
Verifying the cabin is square before fitting roof boards.
Instructions for fixing roof boards using N65 fixings at various points.
How to fit the apex and final roof boards, including trimming.
Attaching roof battens to the underside of roof boards using N40.
Securing skirting pieces along the length with N40 fixings.
Rolling out and cutting felt strips with overhang.
Positioning and fixing felt on the lower roof slope.
Fastening felt using CN20 fixings at specified intervals.
Instructions for overlapping felt and folding overhangs.
Fixing fascia boards to the purlin and batten using N40.
Securing finials at the apex join.
Laying floorboards with 2.5mm gaps for expansion.
Securing floorboards to bearers using BA40 fixings.
Instructions for trimming the final floorboard to size.
Checking squareness and screwing fascia boards internally/externally with S40.
Repeating the fixing process for all doors and windows.
Attaching internal roof battens to top side logs with S40.
Fitting skirting around the internal floor edge and cutting to size.
Fixing skirting sections using S40, avoiding the floorboards.
Attaching storm braces to the inside of gables with CB40.
Ensuring the bottom CB40 fixing is slack to allow for movement.
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