Log Cabins Direct

High quality and attractive garden buildings offer an ideal extra living space to your home when built in your garden. We specialise in sourcing the very best quality and value for money products that will suit almost every purpose. From building Home Offices, Home Gynasiums, Hobby Rooms, Workshops, Studio's and many other types of building to simple summer houses and other leisure style buildings our range of High Quality Garden Buildings is simply without parallel. We offer a huge range of highly versatile and attractive garden buildings at best value for money possible. Gudrum Classics Ltd are one of the largest importers and distributors of garden buildings in the UK with our very broad knowledge of the subject of garden buildinsg generally, our massive range of supply side contacts throughout Europe and Russia coupled with our buying power and our teams friendly and helpful attitude to customers we will create your experience of making what is a significant purchase on the internet into as worry free, pleasant and enjoyable experience as possible. For information on any of our buildings please feel completely at ease to contact us at anytime. Our phones are answered 8-00am - 10-00pm, 7 days per week.

We will be very pleased to offer useful and practical advice on the whole process from start to finish from choosing the right building for your garden and your purpose, type of roofing and discuss insulation requirements (Many products have comprehensive details as links to the product page regarding roof insulation), base preparation and requirements around that, through to building your new purchase in your garden, whether you choose to build yourself, which many customers find to be an interesting and rewarding challenge, or if you prefer to have it assembled we would refer you to our independent, very experienced assembling teams. We carry a large range of stock items in our Warehouse in the East Midlands and can often deliver our garden buildings within 7 days. For more information on this and any other questions that you may have please call: 0845 258 1900 .

Our Buildings are ideal for very many uses. Probably our largest market is for customers to use as Garden Offices but we have sold for many other purposes. Most of our timber buildings are built in Customers Gardens and in one way or another are an extension to the Customers Living / Family Space. Our ranges include 28mm, 44mm, 70mm, 94mm and Glu-lam construction wall timbers upto 135mm. The thicker logs are usually only used in large bespoke log cabins where the strength is required in the structure to support large or unusual shaped roof constructions. We do not advise on Planning Permission or Building regulations simply owing to the fact that local Planners and inspectors have their own directives and perspectives on the rules that they have to work within - therefore we always suggest that customers should contact the local authorities for information on the subject. The local authority is the only definitive source of accurate information on riles that you may have to comply with - despite some claims that you may read on the internet!

The Timber used in our garden buildings is all sourced from either Scandinavia, The Baltic States or Russia. The principle governing factor for quality of timber is the climate that it is grown in. The cooler the climate - the better the quality. It can actually be seen when looking at the ends of logs - if the annual growth rings are close together the timber is much more dense that if they are widely spaced. The implication of the rings being close is that each year the tree has only grown to a small extent owing to the shortness of the summer growing season and the severity of the winters hence the density of the timbers. Almost all of our log cabins are constructed using Nordic Spruce. Spruce is one of the earths plentiful and farmed natural timber resources - it is said that with careful route planning it is possible to travel from the River Rhine to the Sea of Japan without ever coming out of a Spruce Forest. As a responsible supplier we always ensure that timber is sourced from a sustainable source. There are a number of national and international bodies that wil allow their names to be put to properly sourced timber - probably the best known one is the FSC (Forestry Stewardship Council). Others include PEFC. Both of these bodies support sustainable production and responsible procurement. There are other national bodies - some of which are very good. In our experience the Russian Authorities take a very careful approach to the sustainability of their timber resources. Despite the vastness of the Russian Forests - they are of course finite and need careful management. The sourcing and production of all timber that we use in the construction of log cabins is controlled either by Nationla Bodies or by PEFC / FSC or in many cases by a compbination of two of these bodies.

Delivery of our log cabins is usually a straight-forward process and often the area of the purchase of a timber building that gives our customers most concern. Many of our buildings are deliverd on a 6 wheeler truck (about the size of a dustbin lorry) which brings with it an on-board forklift. This forklift will off-load the cabin to the nearest accesible point on the public road. With your permission and at your risk it will also bring it onto your drive. The real risk that you are taking is that the forklift is VERY heavy and may potentially damage surfaces, man-hole covers, drains underground etc. Please consider your situation before asking the driver to come onto the drive. For more advice on this or any other related subject please call 0845 258 1900.