by Richard Flatau | Aug 2, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building, Uncategorized
Tom Huber has been building cordwood for a long time. He sold his beautiful cordwood home in Watervilet, Michigan in 2005 when he moved to take a teaching position at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. Once he found some suitable land...
by Richard Flatau | Jul 14, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building, Uncategorized
If you are interested in finding out more about cordwood construction go to: www.corwdoodconstruction.org or...
by Richard Flatau | May 3, 2012 | Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
These pictures are from a Polish website called Organica. This is a log home building company that has started using cordwood infill in between heavy log framing. The log wall in the picture has cob for the mortar matrix and is colored with potter’s dyes....
by Richard Flatau | Apr 22, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building
When thinking about building with cordwood, there are many questions to be asked and answered, but the most important is: Is this natural building technique for me? To sort this out, why not gather some wood and mortar mixings, make a framework and have a go at it....
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, 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...
