John and Leigh designed their own unique glamping pods to be durable and versatile for varying uses as garden offices , summerhouses , writing studios , fishing huts , and more . And their new business venture – moduLog – was started .
John and Leigh designed their own unique glamping pods to be durable and versatile for varying uses as garden offices , summerhouses , writing studios , fishing huts , and more . And their new business venture – moduLog – was started .
“ The timber we use is based on what timber we have in the woodland ,” shares Leigh . All exterior wood elements are milled from trees grown on their own property or from local sources – oak doors , window frames and western red cedar and Douglas fir cladding are sawn and processed in the workshop .
“ We only select a few trees to cut down at a time ,” Leigh shares . “ We ’ ll be putting log cabins and glamping pods in the woodland , and so we want to keep it looking like a woodland .” Once the trees are felled , they are then sawn on a Wood-Mizer LT40 sawmill into the exact sized timbers needed to complete the project . “ As long as you know what you ’ re doing , you can cut any different sizes of timber you want ,” says Leigh . “ You decide what you want , you get the log you want , and you cut the timber you want . Buying in already machined timber is a lot more expensive than using your own . We save about 20 % on the exterior timber and 100 % on the log halves that we use on the roof by sawmilling it all ourselves .” “ Woodland management is very important , especially for us because we use a lot of wood . It does not cost much to plant trees and to look after them ,” shares Leigh . “ And you have financial rewards in the future .”
Watch on YouTube ! Video interview and moduLog production tour .
More information : http :// modulog . co . uk /
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