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...
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...
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...
by Richard Flatau | Dec 11, 2021 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
This is the story of Charles Yeager’s timber frame sauna workshops taught in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The cordwood infill was completed during two, three-day workshops. The timber frame was erected before the workshops. This is the right (south) side...
by Richard Flatau | Nov 27, 2021 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Workshop
Sometimes with cordwood homes, it is hard to find good interior photos. This one has excellent interior photos of the bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchen. The exterior layout is single story with post and beam framed cordwood. This home is for sale! It is a...
