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Cordwood Homes and Barns also known as Stackwall, Log End, Stovewood or Cordwood Masonry...
cordwood house The Kruza House, House, built in 1884 1884 in Shawano County, W isconsin was ”built ”built of stov ew ood laid in a bed of mortar.” www.lsvejda.wordpress.com
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cordwood house Cordwood Lodge Bed & Breakfast in Bracebridge, Ontario. www.bedbreakfasthome.com
cordwood house Renyard Renyard Felt's cordwoo d home near Adel, Georgia. The home is made of cypress and and w as built in the 70's. Using Using dry wood w ood and building with slow slow curing mortar mortar is key to minimal cracking. www.cordwoodconstruction.org
cordwood house Camp Cordwood, Northern Michigan. With cordwood building, curves are easy. www.thenauhaus.com
cordwood house Mushw Mushwood ood on o n Chataugay Chataugay Lake by Rob Roy. If you do the labor yourself, yourself, and and use woo d from your property, this is a very inexpensive and environmentally friendly way to own a home. Image by Pseu www.flickr.com
cordwood house Cradlerock under construct construction, ion, Ontario, Ontario, Canada. Canada. w ww .cradlerockhomestead.com .cradlerockhomestead.com
Cordwood Home by Rob Roy near Rochester, NY., image by Peter Turkow. Via Rob Roy's FB page: page: ww w.facebook.com
Carlson Carlson Home near Rochester, NY. by Rob Roy. Via Rob Roy's FB page: www.facebook.com
cordwood house Local building codes often require a supporting structure, such as post and beam, then cordwo od as an infill, ev en though the cordwood cordw ood alone alone could support a substan substantial tial load. University of Alaska Alaska ww w.snr w. snras.bl as.blogspot.com ogspot.com
cordwood house Alan Alan Adolphson's Adolphson's cordw ood home, Hope, Maine. Although Although spacing the split w ood close together is i s fine, i t should not touch, touch, as this co uld uld promote damp conditi ons leading leading to rot. ww w.midcoast.com w.midcoast.com
cordwood house The w hole house ho use is built wi th 14" Aspen (poplar). (poplar). All the wall w allss are load bearing. Great Stuff foam w as used used for fo r insulation. insulation. Alan Alan Adolphson. Adolphson. w ww .midcoast.com cordwood ho
cordwood house Alan Alan Adolphson's Adolphson's cordw ood home, Hope, Maine. Looks like stone from afar. www.midcoast.com
cordwood house True True arches around around many doors and wi ndows. Alan Adolphson's Adolphson's cordwo od home, ho me, Hope, Maine. Maine. ww w.midcoast.com w.midcoast.com cordwood hou
cordwood house Alan Alan Adolphson's Adolphson's cordwo od home, Hope, Maine. Do not place the split logs with a flat flat surface facing upward, they will collect rain. www.midcoast.com
cordwood house Stone fireplace & oven to left - cordwood wall on right. Alan Adolphson's cordwood home, Hope, Maine. w ww .midcoast .midcoast.com .com
cordwood house Alan Adolphson's cordwood home, Hope, Maine. www.midcoast.com
cordwood house Mark and Chelsea's home in Kenai, Alaska. The walls are 14″ spruce with foam insulation in the center cavi ty betw een the tw o 3″ mortar beads. beads. thenauhaus.com thenauhaus.com
cordwood house Mark and Chelsea's home in Kenai, Alaska. thenauhaus.com
Cordwood Lodge, Northern Wisconsin. daycreek.com
Cordwood Lodge, Northern Wisconsin. daycreek.com
cordwood house Cordwood home in Upstate Upstate New York, off-grid. ww w.rainharvest.co.za w.rainharvest.co.za
cordwood house Luke & Amy's cordwood home of debarked cedar in Spartanburg, SC. Lots of overhang for South Carolina's wet weather. Via: cordwoodconstruction.wordpress.com
Cordwood House by Wayne Higgins (Stonewood) - Log cabin on left, shingle for the second second floor, cordwood on right. ww w.daycreek.com w.daycreek.com
cordwood house Ravenwood Ravenwo od is i s a double wall, LPM, foam insulated insulated triangular triangular home in upstate upstate New York by Bruce Kilgore and Nancy Dow. www.daycreek.com
Cordwood Garage in New London, MN. Photo by Greg Harp. www.pbase.com
Cordw ood Carriage C arriage House, House, New London, Minnesota. Minnesota. For a rectilinear rectilinear house wi thout a heavy post-and-beam frame, stackwall corners can be built of squared log-ends called quoins. quoins. The stacked corner functions as a post. www.facebook.com
Bear Claw by Ojibwe tribal artist Bill Paulson, in the wall of the cordwood home on the White Earth Reservation in Naytahwaush, Minnesota. Minnesota. cordwoo co rdwoodconstr dconstruction.wordpress.com uction.wordpress.com
Cordwood home in Northern Wisconsin Wisconsin.. w ww .daycreek.com .daycreek.com
cordwood house www.ourcedarcottage.blogspot.com
cordwood house Richard Flatau, West Canada. www.daycreek.com
cordwood house Lakewood Lakewood Hollow, Hollow, w ww .lakewoodhollow.com .lakewoodhollow.com
Stone, shingle and and cordw ood house. h ouse. If you have stone stone on your property, start building building wi th that. Collect logs and and let them dry for about a year, then add a cordwood addition to your stone home. Image by Mark Angelini www.flickr.com
Cordwood Barn, Oconto County, Wisconsin. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Cordwood Barn, Oconto County, Wisconsin. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com
cordwood house Stone Creek Cree k Camp, Flat Head Lake, Montana. Montana. w ww .stonecreekmontan .stonecreekmontana.com a.com Architects: www.anderssonwise.com
cordwood house Stone Creek C amp, Flat Flat Head Head Lake, Montana. Montana. Architects: ww w .anderssonwise.com .anderssonwise.com
cordwood house Stone Creek C amp, Flat Flat Head Head Lake, Montana. Montana. Architects: ww w .anderssonwise.com .anderssonwise.com
cordwood house Stone Creek Cree k Camp, Flat Head Lake, Montana. Montana. w ww .stonecreekmontan .stonecreekmontana.com a.com Architects: www.anderssonwise.com
Cordwood home in Quebec, Canada. Love the old pipes, as well as the wall. For more info: www.troglodium.com
Luke and Amy's Amy's cordw ood home h ome in Sparta Sp artanbu nburg, rg, South Carolina. Via: cordwoodconstruction.org
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Mermaid Cordwood Cottage in Del Norte, Colorado. Via: cordwoodconstruction.org
cordwood house Feather by Ojib we tribal artist artist Bill Paul Paulson, son, in the w all of the cordwood cordw ood home ho me on the W hite E arth Reservation in Naytahw Naytahw aush, aush, Minnesota.. Minnesota.. Image: Robert Zahorski. cordwoodconstruction.wordpress.com
cordwood house Grant Grant Nicholson's arched door o n his double w all, all, slip form, cast quions cordwo od home ho me in Owen Sound, Ontario. Via: www.facebook.com
cordwood house Glass Glass bottles frame frame the w indow. indow . Cordw ood w alls alls on top of a stone foundation. foundation. Image Image by Scot DeGraf DeGraf w ww .flickr.com .flickr.com
cordwood house Indoor tile mosaic mosaic 'strea ' stream', m', interior co rdwood rdwo od w all, all, and and hand-hewn hand-hew n beams from selfselfharvested timber at Rainbow Valley Farm. Photo by Kristi www.flickr.com
Cordw ood Home (without (w ithout mortar) of Armin Blasbichler, Blasbichler, Tyrol, Italy. Italy. www.arminblasbichler.com
Cordwood Home of Armin Blasbichler. Cordwood and clocks are sandwiched between glass. glass. w ww .arminblasbichler.com .arminblasbichler.com
Cordwood in the bathroom. blueforest.com
cordwood house Mecikalski Mecikalski Store, Sto re, built in 1900, 1900, in i n Jennings, Jennings, W isconsin. Eighteen-inch lengths of ce dar logs were used. www.rentandmortgagefree.pdf
Cordwood Barn. www.gallery.pasty.com
Stackwell cornered barn, Canada. www.cordwoodmasonry.com
cordwood house George J. Sauvala barn, barn, 1929. 1929. Betw een Houghton and and Ch assel assel Michigan Michi gan.. Image: W ayne Higgins. Higgins. w ww .daycreek.com .daycreek.com
Cordwood Barn.
Stovewood Chicken Coop, Michigan, built in the 1930s. © Bob Kisken www.fadingad.com
For a cob mortar mix: 5 gallons clay soaked in water, 5 gallons sawdust, 5 gallons dry manure, 5 gallons sand, 2-1/3 c. flour glue/EM, 1/3 c. psyllium powder, and 1 tsp. EM ceramic powder and 1-2 gallons of water. www.home-n-stead.com & www.daycreek.com
cordwood house Sage Mountain Mountain Center, Montana Montana.. Lov e the mix of rectangular rectangular wood woo d with w ith the logs. www.sagemountain.org
cordwood house Sage Mountain Mountain Center, Montana. Montana. Love the mix of rectangular rectangular/squ /square are wood w ood w ith the logs. www.sagemountain.org
Cobw ood cons co nstruct truction, ion, the inner wall space space w ill be fill fi lled ed w ith an insulating insulating material. material. www.daycreek.com
Cordwood workshop in Grand Marais. See more pictures and info here: www.bennetthouseproject.blogspot.com
cordwood house Spray foam as insulation insulation at W hite Earth Reservation, Minnesota. Minnesota. NPR www.minnesota.publicradio.org
More about about cordwood on w ikipedia - w ww .en.wikipedia.org. Image Image by Greg W ebster. ebster.
There are remains of cordw ood buildings in Greece and Siberia that date back a thousand thousand years.
Before you B uild uild: As with wi th all building building methods, planning planning is necessary. necessary. Logs need to be dried to prevent prev ent expansion, shrinking and cracking. Trees should be cut and debarked, then allowed to dry for 1-2 years, before the y are cut into lengths. lengths. Or, if you wan w antt your wood wo od to dry faster, split it. The w ood w ill dry faster, faster, and it w ill crack crack and check less when in the w all. all. Before placing in the w all, all, spray spray or soak the co rdwoo d in Borax. The Borax acts as an insecticide, a wood preservative and a fungicide. Use four cups of Borax (borate) mixed in a gallon gallon of hot w ater. This can be sprayed sprayed on, or the logs can be dipped dip ped in the solution. solution. You w ant your mortar mortar to be ' soft' or a little little flexible, not straight straight concrete co ncrete or brick mud, because the logs continually shrink and swell. R-value depends on the species of wood, wo od, thickness thi ckness,, and insulat insulation ion you chose. Cedar has an R-value R-value of 1.5 per inch; cut to 18" the R-value woul wo uld d be approximately approximately R-27. The mortar will need to be i nsul nsulated ated to bring the R-v alue alue up to par wi th the w ood. In Canada, Canada, Cliff Stockey builds double wall homes (not shown): two cordwood walls with a vapor barrier and insulation in between. Cliff states that a 24" (8" cordwood + 8" insulation + 8" cordwo od) doubl do uble e w all all has an R value value of 40+. 40+. Although this sounds like like double d ouble the w ork, it is not, as you only need to point the outside and most inside wall. www.daycreek.com
Wood types: Softw oods are best. C edar has a good R-v alue alue (1.5 per inch) and is natural naturally ly decay resistant. resistant. Hardwoods h ave a tendency to swell and crack crack mortar joints. The best softwoods: white cedar, white pine, cottonwood, poplar, red cedar, spruce or larch followed by b y hemlock and poplar. poplar. If all you have is hardwood, hardwo od, you yo u must must split split the w ood and let let it dry for only months months instead of years, otherw ise it wi ll expand expand in the w all. all.
For a 32' 32' x 36' one o ne story structu structure re - you yo u need approx 5 cords of cedar wo od.
Resources : Earthwood Building School's full length how-to videos. www.cordwoodmasonry.com Best Practices Practices w ith Cordwo C ordwood od Const Co nstruct ruction ion By Richard Flatau Flatau ww w.thenau w. thenauhaus haus.com .com Yahoo cordwood forum: forum: w ww .groups.ya .groups.yahoo.com hoo.com Info on spray spray foam and double double w alls: alls: ww w.daycreek.com w. daycreek.com More photos: photos: w ww .daycreek.com .daycreek.com Table Table of o f Insula Insulation tion R Values - w w w.inspectapedia.com w. inspectapedia.com
Books: Cordwood Building: The State of the Art, Art , Rob Roy (Editor) Collects the w isdom of more than 25 25 of the w orld’s best practitioners, practitioners, detailing the long history of the method, and demonstra demonstrating ting how to build a cordwoo d home using the latest and most up-to-date up-to-date techniques, w ith a speci al focus on building building code issues. issues. Author/editor Rob Roy has been building, researching, and and teaching about cordw ood masonry masonry for 25 years; and, and, w ith hi s wi fe, started Earthwoo d Building School in 1981. 1981. Information Information about about what w hat species of w ood are best, ho w to select, prepare an and d store the wood. www.amazon.com List of recent books: books: w ww .daycreek.com .daycreek.com
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David Harrell cord wood cabin, round large in Ga. mts. Posts: 9
Reply #9 on : Mon : Mon July 01, 2013, 17:18:15
Any direction would be helpful, I have much flex in my design and would like a large round lodge and 7 to 8 cabins on property. All the the Best, Dav id Gerard
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Posts: 9 I am a freelance writer writer wanting to do a story on cordwood cordwood homes. I live in Joplin, Miss ouri, so need a cordwood cordwood homebuilder homebuilder within driving distance: Mi ssouri, Arkansas , Oklahoma or Kansas. Preferably Preferably a home under construction. Please email me if you or someone you know is building building s uch a home. Steven
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I live in Arkansas and my wife and I love this style of home. The only set back is home owners insurance. We have called called in state and out of state but have had no luck luck in f inding home owner insurance that would cover this style of structure. Can anyone help us? Lauren
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Reply #6 on : Tue : Tue January 08, 2013, 17:51:59
This is a great resource. I hav e always always wanted to build build my own cabin cabin and this have gi ven me lots of great ideas. Thanks for putting this together. Dana M.
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Posts: 9 I have a book from the seventies of Cordwood Homes out of Canada. One home is huge. It is a dream of mine to build it here in M aine. Will
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I am moving to Alaska and have 5 acres there. Thank you for these images, because I probably probably will will be be making a home from s ome of these desi gns; my land has a lot of wood on it. Thanks again and Happy Holidays! :-) Alex
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Thanks for sharing lovely images, and great inspiration for own ideas. Betty
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I really enjoyed your site. I've always wanted to build a cordwood house. some day I'm going too. hillie waning wood and house vos
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