Kabinen-Selbstbau in Island

Hi Krissi!

Sure you can! Most of us are able to write and read at least a little bit english - and if somebody does not,the others in our forum will try to help. So: ask!

Best regards and have a nice weekend
Leerkabinen-Wolfgang

Zitat von Leerkabinen-Wolfgang

,the others in our forum will try to help. So: ask!

hi Krissi,
very welcome to this (crazy) forum.
Iceland -
I certainly would like to come to your home and give the answers personally ...
(if only my wife would let me...)
greetings
Ralf

Krissi,
in case you are wondering about my undertaking -

yes I bought the fibre layer and glued it to the core
see
http://www.womobox.de/phpBB2/viewtop…t=3747&start=75

nowadays I would probably produce the complete sandwiches myself including
reinforcings at distinct places and electricity channels....
the glueing of the huge fibre panels with enough (???) pressure is a very
delicade procedure.
greetings
Ralf

Hi Krissi,

the common way to build up a cabin of one's own is buying complete sandwich walls and gluing them together, stabilizing the edges with Alu- or GfK-angle profiles. This way you get an accelerated progress and there are only less possibilities to make mistakes.
Building the sandwich plates by your own is difficult - if you have no one with expirience on hand I would not recommend this way! If your gluing is not perfekt the result can be a shorter life expectancy of your cabin, and this would be a k.o.-criteria for me...

Best regards
Leerkabinen-Wolfgang

Hi Krissis,

I made the sandwiches by myself, using a special PVC core (Airex) with very thin layers to reduce weight. Pls find the pictures on page 1 of this thread. I agree with Wolfgang. It´s really a lot of work and there are many possibilities for mistakes. I also recommend to use complete sandwiches for building the cabin.

Regards, Michi

Zitat von GOWEST

I made the sandwiches by myself, using a special PVC core (Airex) with very thin layers to reduce weight ...
I also recommend to use complete sandwiches for building the cabin.

Hi

Manufacturers such as paneeltec now offer similar sandwiches. (PUR/PET/PVC)
1mm fiberglass with high strength woven glass fibers. (Same strength as 3mm normal material)
Through a 3mm special honeycomb insert the panel is actually very resistant to point loads.
With a weight of ca. 6.1kg per square meter at 50mm thickness including gelcoat. (with PUR/PIR)

Hi Krissi,

what makes the sandwich plates so expensive for you? Do you have to pay a large tax? Or is the shipment of the plates so expensive? If the second: how large are the plates you need? Maybe it is possible vor Iceland-visitors to transport the plates on the roof of their cabins? Only an idea....

The foam-inlay of the sandwich plates ('styrodur, jackdue etc.) you will be able to get in icelandian building supplies stores, I would suppose. And the GfK-coating you can get in rolls at (nearly) every sandwich producer - I got mine at http://www.anhaenger-selbstbau.de ...

Best regards
Leerkabinen-Wolfgang

Krissi,

I did not use glass-fibre sheets for the outer and inner layer. I made it with glass filament fabric and epoxy resin. The layer material I bought here: http://www.r-g.de/de/

I don´t recommend to do it in this way!!! You need a lot of equipment, if you don´t have experience in this field, you can´t be sure to get an acceptable quality and the work didn´t support your health.

Best regards, Michi

Hi Krissi,

you are two years early: I hope to be able to have my new cabin build in 2014, at least 2015 - and then Iceland would be the number one target on my wishlist. Panels of your size would fit perfectly onto my roof

Maybe someone else can do the transportation-job...

CU (maybe in 2015 )
Leerkabinen-Wolfgang