by Alan Stankevitz | Oct 25, 1998
What a difference a week can make. Russ called to let me know that he was out at our building site on Tuesday and completed the digging necessary to allow proper drainage of our rubble trench. Then on Friday, I arrived early in the morning and proceeded to clean out...
by Alan Stankevitz | Oct 18, 1998
From the start, there would be good times and bad times. This last week was one of those bad times. It all started out very promising but as you will read, things ended the week on a bad note. The goal this month was to get the rubble trench foundation dug before...
by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 12, 1998
The original plan was to build a room inside of the pole barn to use as temporary living quarters while I build our cordwood home. After tent camping inside of the pole barn I came to the following conclusions: Pole barns are extremely noisy during summertime...
by Alan Stankevitz | Jul 19, 1998
Over the last week, Russ Wulf and Mike Barney have been busy digging into the hillside to level out an area approximately 65′ in diameter. The outside footings for the house will be 41’6″ in diameter leaving 12′ of clearance around the...
by Alan Stankevitz | Apr 1, 1998
The first quarter has come to an end and we have achieved most of our goals. The house design has been coming along nicely. We had an opportunity last week to meet with a couple of building contractors / excavators. We wanted to get their input as to what areas were...
by Alan Stankevitz | Feb 8, 1998
With the help of Jo, we got the second wall complete (Another 7′ x 54′ wall). That now makes about 24 face cords of wood stacked. I estimate that we have about another 4 to 5 more to go. That puts us real close to what we will need for our total...
