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5m x 5m Severn® 500 Log Cabin
(5 reviews)
Latest reviews:
Caroline Newton - May 04, 2012
Thank you for a first class product, erected in 24 hours, ( wind and water proof)easy to follow instructions. Delighted with the quality of logs and finish. Our family and friends cannot believe the space inside and how cosy the cabin is.
Many thanks to Edith for customer service and our delivery man.
Chris Dow - Feb 01, 2012
Firstly, this is a great product; don’t bother shopping around as it the cheapest you can get, and a good company to deal with. The cabin is superb, we have ours split into two with the optional dividing wall & door; 1.5m at the rear is my workshop with privacy window, the front is home to a bar against the wall and 6’x3’ pool dining table. We also have the large ‘SideStore’ installed at the back which is great for garden tools, mower etc. We bought the 48mm (non-insulated) cabin and even at zero outside the other week, a small fan heater kept the cabin warm for our dinner guests – in fact we had to open a window as it got too hot (we did insulate under floor & also thick matting under the laminate fitted after). On the contrary in summer it remained noticeably cooler than outside.
Every dealing with Dunster House was timely & efficient; delivery was sorted to fit around our concrete being poured and questions answered quickly. The cabin was supplied with a lot of spare wood, so any flawed pieces could be replaced – I had so much left over I was able to make several sturdy shelves in the rear of the cabin.
Now to the build: Having considered doing this myself, lack of time meant we ended up employing a local carpenter to do it for us - and I’m very glad we did. As a professional (mainly working on his own, for fixed price), with log cabin experience (and a nail gun!), it took him at least seven days to complete. Even as a keen DIYer, now having the seen the scale of it I wouldn’t fancy tackling this myself, the shingle roof being particularly time consuming. The guy doing the build did comment that it was the best quality cabin he’d seen and that everything went together as it should with only minor adjustments.
Overall we’re really really pleased with it, and everyone who visits thinks it’s amazing.
Quick tip on Building/Fire Regulations: one side of our cabin is within one metre of the boundary so should technically be fire retardant inside and out according to local authorities. However when I spoke to the guy at the council he said as long as your 15m or so from any proper buildings (“and all you’d set fire to are trees and fences”) then I needn’t bother, and if anyone from the council ever came to look, just to say I was in the process of talking to companies about implementing it. He said it was a very old rule that was often not relevant these days and they wouldn’t enforce it. So check with your local authority before spending hundreds on fire retardant materials.
KELVIN HUNT - Jun 12, 2011
My wife and I are very pleased with this log cabin ,it looks very nice in the garden. We built it together ,the instructions are good and had no faults during construction. Ordering through to delivery was very quick and profesional, the delivery driver was extremely good. We are now looking forward to a hot summer sipping cold drinks in deck chairs outside of it, or inside of it it begins to rain.
Alastair Biggart - Apr 18, 2011
We are delighted with our purchase of the 5m x 5m cabin. It was very easy to erect on the prepared concrete foundation and the end result is very attractive. The instruction manual was excellent and the quality of manufacture was superb. We were quite surprised how quickly my wife and I managed to erect it. (We are both in our mid to late ‘70’s).
We have also been very impressed with the responsiveness of your staff when we had a problem with the door locking mechanism.
Jenny Bladon - Aug 09, 2010
We are thrilled with our Severn 500. The service and assistance from DH was second to none, and the log cabin is super. The only drawback for my husband was his desire to treat every piece of wood prior to construction - this made the whole instalation take much longer than anticipated. But the kit is excellent and we cannot recommend DH products highly enough. Thank you.