Stewart Milne log cabins - Strathyre
When contractor Stewart Milne completed two log cabin holiday complexes for Forest Holidays on a loch side in Scotland, and in Keldy North Yorkshire, the 35 timber cabins were fitted with Janex timber windows and a complex and challenging fenestration.
This project involved demolishing aging buildings and new cabins being built using home grown structural timber. This presented additional challenges for the window product, on tolerances of raw timber. Janex was chosen from a range of Scandinavian producers as window and door supplier because of their first class logistics and distribution capability and the ability to supply all products from one source – patio doors, French windows, and windows in special sizes to suit large complex angled fenestrations.
The size and weight of the window units and the use of cantilevered roof structures required cranes using specialised hydraulic equipment to lift the windows into place and this together with a complex delivery programme in one of the worst winters seen in the UK for many years, gave both project teams some unique challenges. Timber windows were delivered unfinished so that the main contractor could stain them on site to match the timber clad walls of the cabins. The risks during the build process of marking bare timber with mud and other materials on a tricky highland site were significant, so Janex split the products into plot lots, individually heat shrink wrapped each and every window and then delivered them to site at the rate of 5 cabin loads per week, to match the build programme.
