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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 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 Construction Timber Frame Sauna

Cordwood Construction Timber Frame Sauna

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...
Cordwood Home in North Carolina

Cordwood Home in North Carolina

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...
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