Garden building videos
Discover GardenLife and our quality garden buildings
Find out more about us at GardenLife as well as our products, delivery and construction by watching some of these short garden building videos. Queries about packing, unloading, build quality, insulation, construction and treating buildings should all be answered – but if not, please get in touch, we’re always happy to talk!
This video provides you with information about GardenLife, the quality that underpins our timber garden products and how we deliver buildings. You will also discover how our products are carefully unpacked, constructed and finished, with the end result being a stunning timber garden building.
Chalet cut tongue and groove garden buildings
If you have concerns over delivery, then this video guide could help ease any doubts. GardenLife deliver all our garden buildings flat packed and rapped in weather proof plastic sheeting. Our lorries are fitted with cranes and we can therefore deliver as close to your build site or foundations as possible (placing items over walls or fences if access is limited).
When constructing a timber garden building, garden room or summer house it’s very important to prepare the build site and timber base correctly. The foundations must be level (ideally a concrete pad, sturdy treated timber decking or eco-friendly gravel mats with anchor points). The timber base must be square and level, and this video from GardenLife shows the process.
If you’re building a summer house or timber garden building yourself, you will need to position and fit the structural purlins to add rigidity and strength to the roof. When the purlins are level and flush you can then fit the roof boards; a process that takes the build a step closer to weather proofing your garden building. Watch this video from GardenLife Log Cabins to find out how.
Standard roofing felt is simply rolled the length of the roof and tacked into place, starting from the lowest side of the roof, working up to the apex and overlapping each roll. However, if you are adding your own roof shingles you will need to watch this helpful video guide to ensure that you end up with a professional “tile effect” finish on your summer house.
If you want to keep your garden building warm throughout the colder months you will need to add insulation between the floor joists and securely fit the boards over the top (making sure you leave a gap to allow for natural movement and expansion of the floorboards). You can see how straightforward this is in this video guide.
The vast majority of our log cabins, timber summer houses and garden rooms are designed to be built by those with basic DIY skills and tools. This video shows how the Claudia (19.4Sq m) clockhouse style summer house is built; from arranging the individual elements to building the windows, walls, roof and the finished product.
Modular Quick Fit garden buildings
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Anna (26.8 sqm + 1.9 sqm) spacious timber garden house
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Robert (20.6 sqm) traditional timber carport for two cars
£3,747.00 -
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Iris (9.6 sqm) compact garden summer house
£2,768.00 -
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Iris (11.1 sqm) log cabin summer house
£3,749.00 -
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Lisa (11.5 sqm) pent timber garden room
£3,299.00 -
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Lisa (14.2 sqm) modern pent garden office
£4,229.00
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