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Top 10 Cordwood Tips, Tricks & Hacks

Top 10 Cordwood Tips, Tricks & Hacks

by Richard Flatau | Jun 8, 2022 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Off grid, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop

Top 10 Cordwood Tips, Tricks and Hacks to help you build better with cordwood.  Keeping your wall level?  Try using a swinging plumb bob. Usually, a plumb bob is hung on a string to show vertical plumb. This idea is courtesy of Don Gerdes (engineer) who devised it to...
Cordwood Cottage BnB in Colorado boasts Mermaids

Cordwood Cottage BnB in Colorado boasts Mermaids

by Richard Flatau | Apr 18, 2022 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural home for sale, Off grid, Uncategorized, Workshop

Did you know there is a cottage filled with mermaids in southern Colorado?  Even though it is a thousand miles from the nearest ocean, this BnB has a bevvy of seafaring sirens. It also has gorgeous views, breathtaking skies, and wonderful structures. The cottage is...
Cordwood with Magnificent Timbers in Hungary

Cordwood with Magnificent Timbers in Hungary

by Richard Flatau | Apr 2, 2022 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Off grid

Klarianka Gabor sent these photos of his amazing cordwood building in Hungary.  He and his family and friends have built a “Best Practices” cordwood home.  The tree trunks that they cut are magnificent and so huge!  What a great framework for the...
Cordwood in Arizona, Colorado & Utah

Cordwood in Arizona, Colorado & Utah

by Richard Flatau | Mar 6, 2022 | cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop

Beautiful cordwood sauna at Root Bottom Farm in Samak, Utah.  Gorgeous cordwood sauna in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. (Below) Cordwood (actually cobwood) in SW Arizona.  The cob (clay, sand, straw) is used for the mortar.  The logs used for the framing and the...
Cordwood Magnificent Pike’s Peak Colorado

Cordwood Magnificent Pike’s Peak Colorado

by Richard Flatau | Jan 16, 2022 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Uncategorized, Workshop

Bryan and Lois Pratt of Woodland Park, Colorado have built one of the finest cordwood homes in the world!   This 12 sided, two-story beauty is breathtaking in its construction and has an unfettered view of Pike’s Peak. Bryan and Lois planned for many years to...
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