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Cordwood Garden Shed Stackwall Style

by Richard Flatau | Dec 11, 2019 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, log end, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

The Stackwall Corners garden shed has been completed. Here are some new photos along with the original construction photos. Beth Frew & Dennis Lapier took our one day, hands-on cordwood workshop in 2018 and by 2019 they had built this Garden Shed! When folks plan...

Cordwood: How to Build Good Looking Walls

by Richard Flatau | Nov 28, 2019 | Alaska, Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

A good-looking cordwood wall is breathtaking in its simplicity. It grabs the viewer and gives the impression that an artist was at work on this wall. The wall lasts for hundreds of years (if done right) and the beauty remains. The key is to be fluid and random. Logs...

Cordwood Maple Sugar Shack is so Sweet

by Richard Flatau | Nov 13, 2019 | Alaska, Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

Do you love the taste of Maple Syrup? Would you like to have your own Cordwood Maple Sugar Shack? Ted Amman answered YES to both questions. He wanted to build a "shack" to house his family maple syrup harvest. Ted attended a cordwood workshop, visited the Cordwood...

Disney World of Cordwood

by Richard Flatau | Nov 2, 2019 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

When Wayne Higgins took us around to see some of the outstanding cordwood building that has been built in the Keweenaw Peninsula of the U.P. of Michigan we were amazed! Wayne was not only a fine tour guide, but his knowledge of the area is phenomena. One fascinating...

Stackwall Corners with the Right Stuff

by Richard Flatau | Oct 29, 2019 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

Stackwall corners built the Right Way! How do I build stackwall the right way? This stackwall corner (below) in Minnesota has been built as a single post. In between the quoins (squared timbers) are blocks to stabilize the post. Below is a picture of the...

Stackwall Corners Gone Wrong

by Richard Flatau | Oct 26, 2019 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Natural home for sale, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

What happens when the mortar of your stackwall corner starts to move and crack? The picture below gives a good example of a stackwall corner in distress. There is vertical mortar crack most of the way down the wall. The horizontal quoins (6 x 6" beams) should have...

Fantastic Cordwood Stackwall in Alberta, Canada

by Richard Flatau | Oct 14, 2019 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Workshop | 0 Comments

Adam P. Norris was kind enough to send me the following pictures of his cordwood stackwall dream home in the mountains of Alberta. Such fantastic work, my mind was reeling, so I asked some questions. Below are Adam's answers: The wood Adam used was mostly lodgepole...

Cordwood and Slip Form

by Richard Flatau | Oct 1, 2019 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building | 0 Comments

This article is by Grant Nicholson from Owen Sound, Ontario. He has agreed to let it be posted in order to help people learn about Slipforming, Double-Wall cordwood and Frost Protected Shallow Foundations with cordwood. Thank you, Grant. Slip Form and Cordwood: Old...

Tiny Cordwood Guesthouse in upstate New York

by Richard Flatau | Sep 27, 2019 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

Bruce and Nancy Kilgore's built this beautiful round cordwood guesthouse in upstate New York. After they built it, they lived in it for nine months while constructing their double-wall cordwood home nearby. Nancy is a mortar maven and Bruce is a superb mortar...

Masonry Heaters & Wood Stoves for Cordwood Homes

by Richard Flatau | Sep 24, 2019 | Alaska, Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Natural home for sale, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

Many people are attracted to cordwood construction for the potentially low cost of building materials (wood) and the possibility of heating one's own home with a sustainable natural resource (wood). If you have a woodlot, your cordwood home can be heated for your...