by Alan Stankevitz | Sep 26, 2003
It’s hard to believe that Autumn is already here—time flies when your building walls. There’s not a whole lot to report over the last two weeks. I took a short break from building cordwood walls to get the house ready for our annual Applefest party. La...
by Alan Stankevitz | Sep 14, 2003
I don’t know if there is such a thing as “metal lath nirvana” but hanging metal lath with a pneumatic stapler is at least 10 times easier and quicker than using a cordless drill and 100’s of screws. What was I thinking?The stapler is especially...
by Alan Stankevitz | Sep 5, 2003
In May this year I went to our county’s Ag Center to apply for the Department of Agriculture’s 2003 CRP (Conservation Reserve Program). The CRP is a federal program in which the government pays you not to grow crops on farmland in order to put aside...
by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 30, 2003
The five interior cordwood walls that make up the master bedroom and closet were completed this week. The last wall of the bedroom was a window wall and I found myself wrestling with a screw-gun attachment that was suppose to make lath hanging a breeze. The darn thing...
by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 23, 2003
For the most part Jo and I agree on most subjects related to the house. There are occasions though that we have our artistic differences. One of these “occasions” occurred when we started discussing the glass bottle design to be located in the center...
by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 16, 2003
Yes, that’s right…it was a tankless job. This week’s goal was to complete the domestic hot water heating system by installing the Aquastar 125B LPS tankless water heater. For those of you not familiar with tankless water heaters, a tankless water...
