by Richard Flatau | Mar 6, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Uncategorized
The new book Cordwood Construction: Best Practices 2012 has just arrived “hot off the presses.” It is the work of long time cordwood builder Richard Flatau. It is reported that this is the most up-to-date tome on cordwood building. Cordwood...
by Richard Flatau | Feb 12, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building
Recycling bottles is easy with cordwood construction. Simply stick them in the walls! Take a clear bottle and a a colored bottle, put them together, mortar them in the wall and “let the sunshine in…” These are a few of the many ways to make your...
by Richard Flatau | Feb 10, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building
When we built the White Earth Reservation Cordwood Home we had not only an excellent general contractor (Robert Zahorski) but we had a tribal project director (Bill Paulson) who is an artist of significant skill. He created the Ojibway Medicine Wheel in the cordwood...
by Richard Flatau | Feb 7, 2012 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Workshop
In 2009 we assisted in the building of a beautiful cordwood home on the White Earth Reservation in NW Minnesota. We had serious help from Bill Paulson, Robert Zahorski, Arlen Kangas and the native tribal wood masons. This is an 1800 sq. ft. cordwood home made of...
by Richard Flatau | Feb 5, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building
My goal is to show what can be done with this old fashioned, labor intensive, natural building style. Richard Flatau www.daycreek.com/dc/html/dcrflatau1.htm ...
by Richard Flatau | Feb 5, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building, Uncategorized
Hello and welcome to Cordwood Constructions blog about, what else, cordwood. My goal in writing this blog is to make available to the public a “best practices” approach to cordwood construction. Having labored in the cordwood fields for 32 years and...
