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Cordwood Sweat Lodges & Dog Houses

Cordwood Sweat Lodges & Dog Houses

by Richard Flatau | Jan 5, 2023 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop

Cordwood lends itself to many types of buildings, including ones that keep a person clean and a dog sheltered.  Below is a cordwood sweat lodge in the Pacific Northwest.  It is built with Western Red Cedar which makes for a beautiful cordwood wall.  A tiny sweat...
Cordwood with Magnificent Timbers

Cordwood with Magnificent Timbers

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 Sauna at Kinstone

Cordwood Sauna at Kinstone

by Richard Flatau | Dec 28, 2021 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Off grid, Workshop

Many wonderful and talented folks worked on the framing, roofing, cordwood-ing and making bottle ends for this much-anticipated structure.  The sauna rests upon a frost-protected grade beam (with a rubble trench for drainage).  The grade beam is 12″ wide and...
Cordwood Construction can be Mortgage Free!

Cordwood Construction can be Mortgage Free!

by Richard Flatau | Oct 27, 2021 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Workshop

New Pioneer Magazine published a four-page article about building Cordwood Cottages.  The editor allowed me to place the article on various social media sites to encourage the idea of natural building.   The article details the best practice building of cordwood...
Cordwood Construction Sauna in Wisconsin

Cordwood Construction Sauna in Wisconsin

by Richard Flatau | Oct 18, 2021 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Off grid, Workshop

One way to put a large piece of cordwood in the wall and make sure it won’t loosen is to “explode it” by splitting it and then putting it back together with a mortar bead. The very dry wood (8%) in the photo is Aspen.   We were lucky to have such...
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