by Richard Flatau | Jun 24, 2016 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Off grid, Workshop
In the rolling bluffs and buttes of southwest Wisconsin and nigh onto the Mississippi River resides a cordwood dragon. This dragon (the eye is green) is sleeping in a cordwood “dragon’s keep.” Made of cordwood, bottles, metal and glass it keeps...
by Richard Flatau | Jun 14, 2016 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Off grid, Workshop
Cordwood Construction Best Practices DVD is the newest addition to the expanding field of cordwood information If you want to see a video of detailed, best practice methods of building, mixing, tuck pointing and insulating a cordwood wall, this DVD has it, from all...
by Richard Flatau | Apr 11, 2016 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Off grid, Workshop
Cordwood workshops are the best way to learn the cordwood construction technique. When you take one from Richard & Becky Flatau of Cordwood Construction Resources LLC, they emphasis the “Best Practices” approach to building. The Flatau’s have...
by Richard Flatau | Feb 8, 2016 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, log end, Off grid, Workshop
Christopher Borton founder of the Sage Mountain Center in Whitehall. Montana has built a beautiful Cordwood Education Center. His vision is to promote sustainable and holistic well being through education and demonstration. Classes, tours, seminars and workshops...
by Richard Flatau | Dec 5, 2015 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Off grid, Workshop
Ryan Ross of Woodland Park, Colorado (Pike’s Peak) was kind enough to share these photos. Ryan wrote, “We have our own portable sawmill and cut all the timber-frame material right here on the ranch…The walls are 8″ thick because we use this as...
