Carbeth provides for the removal of rubbish but on others rubbish removal is either by the occupants or by local authorities, although respondents reported difficulties with this. Some prefabricated panels or prefabricated huts are now used. Brick, concrete or stone may be used for chimneys. Most have one living room and at least one bedroom. A few original inter-war huts survive apparently unchanged but most have been altered over the years.
Planning permission is required for changes.
Most huts are sitting on the ground usually on brick or concrete support blocks. One in ten however have conventional foundations, this being more common on owned sites. The majority of hut occupiers are elderly, with only one in six under forty. Half of the respondents are retired. The occupational backgrounds of the occupiers are diverse.