by Richard Flatau | Feb 17, 2021 | 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...
by Richard Flatau | Dec 27, 2020 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Off grid, Uncategorized, Workshop
Usually a cordwood cabin’s mortar is prone to cracking if it is moved. Ernie Burgener has figured out a method of moving a small cordwood cabin (for short distances). He has devised a set of sturdy skids on which he built the frame. Then he has applied...
by Richard Flatau | Dec 26, 2020 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, solar, Workshop
Ben Orchiderous of the Big Island of Hawaii has built a cordwood shed (for practice) and a 16-sided cordwood home for living. Besides running an orchid nursery with 40,000 varieties, he also built a two-story Earthwood-style cordwood home in his spare time. Here...
by Richard Flatau | Aug 17, 2020 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Uncategorized
James Collette started out by building a cordwood dollhouse for his grandaughter and then progressed to a backyard cordwood cabin/sauna. You will note this is in a residential neighborhood. Some of the narrative will be from James’s notes concerning his...
by Richard Flatau | Jul 13, 2020 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, Off grid, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
Mike Anderson built this cordwood outhouse at Rune Stone Park in Kensington, Minnesota (near Alexandria, Minnesota). He writes the following message. “I am fine with you posting pictures. The wood is a mix of white pine and blue spruce thinned from “a...
