Summerhouses

Wooden Summerhouses UK

If you’re looking for the perfect retreat for your garden, why not add one of our wooden summer houses? Our garden summer houses will provide value to your garden and enhance your day to day life. Our timber summer houses come in a variety of styles and sizes that are sure to please all tastes.

Our log cabin summer houses are multi-purpose garden buildings with various wall thickness and insulation options.

Better yet, transform that awkward section of your garden with an affordable solution that doesn’t require planning permission. A corner summerhouse will give you the extra space you need to expand your living space without expensive house extensions.

Log Cabin Summerhouses

Our wide selection of modern log cabins summer houses will have you craving for your own space in the garden. Choose from a variety of log cabin summer houses with designs and shapes to fit all kinds of gardens. For more modern tastes, our contemporary summerhouses and cabins in pent roof styles may be more satisfactory. Let your available space and personal taste be the guide to your final selection.

Summer House Offices

A log cabin can also be a great place to work, manage your work life balance and reduce your morning commute to a few seconds, allowing you to arrive with your coffee still warm in hand. Separate your work and home life, and get the best of both worlds! Our summer houses and dedicated garden offices have high-security doors and windows that can only be removed from  the inside, keeping your important documents and valuable equipment well protected and secure.

Summerhouse Sheds

Our summerhouses with storage are ideal if you are in need of an extra shed on the side. Combine your wooden summerhouse with a variety of sidestore sheds that are sure to satisfy your storage needs. Store your essentials in a place that’s easy to retrieve from. Whether it’s your lawn mower, bicycles, garden tools or garden furniture, rest assured your belongings will sit in a safe place right next to your summerhouse shed.

Insulated Summer Houses

If you intend to use your summer house all year round, opt-in for an insulated log cabin. Add insulation to your log cabin or choose one of our fully insulated log cabins.

Our WarmaLog insulated log cabins are an innovative concept. Built using a unique 62mm sandwich of timber and polyisocyanurate, which make up the walls. Their U-Value is equivalent to 140mm wall log. An ideal option for any weather, which will keep you and your loved ones warm and cosy. Features our unique triple tongue and groove wall logs and industry leading double glazed windows.

Our insulation options are quick and easy to install into your log cabin and help promote heat retention, saving you money on your heating bills. We always supply polyisocyanurate insulation, which is a far better insulator than Rockwool or polystyrene alternatives.

Pent & Chalet Roof Summerhouses 

Choose a summer house with a unique style roof that suits the design of your garden. Opt for a traditional chalet roof, which gives the overall garden building a grand feel with the highest point of the roof being in the centre. Alternatively, shop a sleek, neat and compact style of summerhouse with the pent roof range. The pent roof is perfect when you want to site the garden building in a snug, cosy corner.

Maintain Your Garden Summer Houses UK

To ensure your garden summer house has a prolonged life, it’s crucial that you take the correct measures to maintain it properly.

Our experts recommend choosing the right treatment for your garden sunhouse and that you treat it as soon as it’s built. We offer a variety of wall preservatives that are solvent and water based. In addition to selecting the best log cabin treatment, it’s also important that you re-apply treatment when required. This will depend on the log cabin preservative you have chosen.

Furthermore, creating an environment that aids moisture control is an important element in maintaining your garden summerhouse. Make sure measures are in place for the roof, floor, foundations and surrounding drainage to help shake off extra moisture and prevent rot and insect infestation.

We use pressure treated floor bearers to protect the lowest part of the building. We use a large pressure treatment tank that forces the treatment deep into the timber at high pressure. Due to this effective process, we offer our customers a genuine 10 year guarantee against rot and insect infestation on the bearers.

Don’t forget, your sun house is made of timber, a natural product that will contract and expand according to the UK’s unpredictable weather. Once the cabin is erected, there will be a period of “settling” as the wood reacts and adjusts to surrounding climate. Splits and cracks may occur over time but that shouldn’t compromise the quality of your garden building.

The use of interlocking tongue and groove timber in our log cabins help with the strength and stability of the walls as well as the natural expansion and contraction of the timber.

For more information, take a look at our guide on maintaining panel built summerhouses, or maintaining log cabin summerhouses.

Planning permission for Summerhouses UK

You may have found exactly what you’re looking for, a summerhouse shed to your exact taste and measurements. That’s great! However, before placing an order for your wooden garden building, it’s important to familiarise yourself with any planning permissions or building regulations that may apply in your area.

The good news is that most of our log cabins and summerhouses don’t typically require planning permission. This is due to our unique designs that utilise the maximum width and height available to us. Thus giving you as much space as possible, without the need to opt for tall log cabins. Although we have a wide range of under 2.5m high log cabins, some exceptions may still apply. Hence it’s vital that you check whether you’ll need planning permission or not. The official government website has more information on planning permission and building regulations.

Summer Houses For Sale

If you’re looking for a summer house to buy, make sure you do your research. This is because summerhouse kits come in all shapes and sizes to fit all budgets. You may be looking for a small summerhouse if you’re restrained for space. Likewise, you may be looking for a large log cabin if you’re aiming for a multipurpose space or have a large garden.

Whatever your budget, garden space, personal taste and style, if you are looking to buy a wooden summerhouse we are confident that you will find what you’re looking for in our massive range of garden summer houses. If you’re looking for the best garden outbuilding you’ve come to the best.

Summerhouse Kits

Discover the perfect retreat in your own back garden with one of our wooden summer houses. Whether you seek a tranquil sanctuary for reading or a vibrant space for entertaining, our summer houses offer endless possibilities. Combining timeless elegance with exceptional durability, these structures not only enhance the beauty of your garden but also serve as a wise investment, increasing your property’s value.

Our summer houses feature multi-purpose designs with various wall thickness and insulation options, ensuring comfort in any season. Transform that awkward section of your garden into a functional space without the need for costly house extensions. Our summerhouses provide an affordable solution that requires no planning permission, expanding your living space with ease.

As one of the UK’s leading suppliers of Summer Houses, our garden outbuildings are without a doubt the best quality and value for money you will find anywhere.

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