Living in a log cabin

Diddums x · 18 Mar 2016 at 15:17

A guy at work is saying he's going to move in to a log cabin because it's cheap. Now this piqued my interest as paying £1400 exc. bills a month for our current place is getting ridiculous.

Problems I foresee are:

Planning permission.
Getting a gas / leccy / water supply.
Insurance probably won't want to know.
A bitch to heat.
Catches fire easily.
Not as big as the ads would have you believe.
Easily burgled and vandalized.
You look like a *****.

Anything I've missed?

Diddums x · 18 Mar 2016 at 15:18

This is the one he mentioned:

https://www.quick-garden.co.uk/resi...idential-log-cabin-langon-66mm-107m-uk-2.html

Skillmister · 18 Mar 2016 at 15:29

Why bother with the log cabin?
This guy's is truly inspirational, just look what he's done with the stream!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...leaves-bath-driftwood-ordered-leave-home.html

So long as you wanted to put it up in a reasonable place I don't see why planning permission would be too much of a problem. Water supply is easy/common enough. Gas bottles probably the best idea. Electric could be harder.. Again, don't see buglary/vandalism being a big issue unless you put it up in a problem spot.

There was a guy on Ben Fogle's current series a couple of weeks ago who was living in a log cabin in a forest and it looked great.

djshauny1 · 18 Mar 2016 at 15:34

Skillmister said:
Why bother with the log cabin?
This guy's is truly inspirational, just look what he's done with the stream!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...leaves-bath-driftwood-ordered-leave-home.html

So long as you wanted to put it up in a reasonable place I don't see why planning permission would be too much of a problem. Water supply is easy/common enough. Gas bottles probably the best idea. Electric could be harder.. Again, don't see buglary/vandalism being a big issue unless you put it up in a problem spot.

There was a guy on Ben Fogle's current series a couple of weeks ago who was living in a log cabin in a forest and it looked great.

Wow. Shame he has to leave.

Glaucus · 18 Mar 2016 at 15:43

He wont get planning permission and it'll eventually be torn down.

Unless he puts it in someones garden then it's fine. Then you can use temporary accommodation of main building and so would not heed planning permission.

You can easily go off grid these days. If you want cheap.

Better way is to get a bus license and convert a double Decker bus into a 2bed house then lay up in laybys.

Laws are stupid in uk, homeless man has done what I would do. And is now going to be homeless again.
If I was him I would just move somewhere else and do the same. Few years then move again.

We have no right in the uk to live on land we own. Which no other EU country had. If you open land in the rest of EU you can live on it in temporary accommodation.

There is a way around it and would love to see what interest and what type of people would go for it. If 13 off you club together and buy a fair few acres. Divide the land between the 13 of you legally on paper. Then you can live on each others land for 28 days then move your temporary accommodation a few metres to the next piece of land and do that every 28 days.

Amp34 · 18 Mar 2016 at 17:02

Where are you planning on putting it? Renting land in London will be expensive, unless you plan on gate dashing a friends garden (assuming they own not rent as I assume the landlord wouldn't be happy).

A more realistic option if you want to continue living in London is to get a boat and moor it up somewhere (probably east). Moorings can be relatively cheap depending where they are, but can be in short supply.

Diddums x · 19 Mar 2016 at 14:20

I'm not planning on anything, was just curious issall. I could never live like that, I have standards dontchknow

Thanks for the feedback all

[FnG]magnolia · 19 Mar 2016 at 19:56

Diddums said:
A guy at work is saying he's going to move in to a log cabin because it's cheap. Now this piqued my interest as paying £1400 exc. bills a month for our current place is getting ridiculous.

Problems I foresee are:

Planning permission.
Getting a gas / leccy / water supply.
Insurance probably won't want to know.
A bitch to heat.
Catches fire easily.
Not as big as the ads would have you believe.
Easily burgled and vandalized.
You look like a *****.

Anything I've missed?

Honest question, if I may: are you going through some kind of mental break down?

I enjoy your posts but you seem like you need to talk to a responsible adult.

Deleted member 77746 · 20 Mar 2016 at 12:13

I would love to live in a log cabin! Would be so peaceful!

D.P. · 20 Mar 2016 at 13:14

Diddums said:
A guy at work is saying he's going to move in to a log cabin because it's cheap. Now this piqued my interest as paying £1400 exc. bills a month for our current place is getting ridiculous.

Problems I foresee are:

Planning permission.
Getting a gas / leccy / water supply.
Insurance probably won't want to know.
A bitch to heat.
Catches fire easily.
Not as big as the ads would have you believe.
Easily burgled and vandalized.
You look like a *****.

Anything I've missed?

You have to buy the land as well, so you might need 100k for a plot to. Elgin with.

But a lot of the rest of your listed issues aren't really a problem. In many parts of the world it's really normally to live in a log cabin, especially in mountainous areas or large forested place.s the US west coast has logs of log cabins. They are just as safe any modern house.