New Cordwood Website & Blog

Would you like to check out our new Cordwood Construction Website & Blog?  It is easy to navigate, filled with beautiful pictures, videos, instructional posts, books, plans & links.  Go to https://cordwoodconstruction.org/cordwood-timber-framed-sauna-in-michigan and have a “click around.”  If you’d like, please sign up to subscribe to the new blog. FYI, all NEW blog posts will be posted at this new site.  Want to learn about the Top Ten Best Practices to make your building warm and energy efficient (or cool and energy efficient)? 

How about a cozy place by the fire?Thinking about an Off-Grid cordwood cabin? 

Want to build a sauna that doubles as a guest cottage? How about a cordwood castle?

Or a hybrid cordwood cottage?Million dollar cordwood lodge.16 sided cordwood home?

Want to create a cordwood work of art for your community?Whatever your cordwood ideas; on this new site, you will find detailed information so you can proceed with confidence. Visit https://cordwoodconstruction.org to explore all your options.

Cordwood in Kenai, Alaska

                                    The cordwood home of Mark & Chelsea in Alaska.

Here are Mark & Chelsea in front of their cordwood home in Kenai, Alaska.  The walls are 14″ spruce with foam insulation in the center cavity between the two 3″ mortar beads.

Mark and Chelsea are holding moose sausage harvested from the moose that ate their garden.

They used a log wizard to craft the beams, posts and rafter.  Alaska provides ample solar time to work during the summer, but in the winter it can be a challenge.

Inside the second floor with doors and windows framed.

Riding the wheelbarrow up to the second floor. Don’t try this at home! Nice job Chelsea and Mark.

New photos from Chelsea and Mark of a cordwood addition.  Note the stone fish and the Big Dipper in bottle bricks.

Chelsea and Mark recently completed a cordwood sauna (2017) with bottle ends and a huge moon shaped piece of pine.  

Here they proudly display a 24 hours of sunlight mega-Alaskan zucchini.

Chelsea wrote a detailed article about building this cordwood masterpiece for the Cordwood Conference Papers 2011, which was then shared at the Cordwood Conference in Winnipeg, Canada in June of 2011.  The Papers are for sale as an ebook or a print version and the quality of information and the breadth of subject matter is outstanding.

Should you wish to learn how to build a cordwood cottage, cabin or home, please visit www.cordwoodconstruction.org   While you are there, click on the pictures, read the brief articles, check out the latest workshops and newsletter and if you are interested click on the Online Bookstore to see all the cordwood literature available in print and ebook format.If you have questions that aren’t answered on the website you can email me at richardflatau@gmail.com  

Readers have requested a brief bio, so here goes:   Richard & Becky Flatau built their mortgage-free cordwood home in 1979 in Merrill, Wisconsin. Since then, they have written books, conducted workshops, facilitated the 2005,  2011 and 2015 Cordwood Conferences and provided consultation for thousands of cordwood builders.  Cordwood Workshop Video,  Cordwood Construction Best Practices (2017) and Cordwood Conference Papers 2015 are the newest publications available from their online cordwood bookstore.   www.cordwoodconstruction.org Here is a picture of the Cordwood Workshop DVD cover, featuring the Cordwood Education Center.

 

For more information on Cordwood Construction, click on the picture or visit www.cordwoodconstruction.org   Below is the 30 item Video menu.