by Alan Stankevitz | Oct 19, 2003
Autumn Joy – Cordwood Wall Update Seventeen more walls to go! That’s not so bad considering I started with 64. Of course, that was a few years ago, but who’s counting the years? It’s been a slow process, but it’s fun watching the house...
by Alan Stankevitz | Oct 5, 2003
DayCreek Open House Two years ago (our last open house) it poured rain all day, but this year the weather was much better. The sun played hide and seek with the clouds, but didn’t spoil the Solar Tour of Homes. Visitors started arriving by 10 AM and there was...
by Alan Stankevitz | Sep 26, 2003
Cordobe Cracks! 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...
by Alan Stankevitz | Sep 14, 2003
A Staple Diet – Affixing metal lath with a staple gun 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...
by Alan Stankevitz | Sep 5, 2003
No More Making Hay 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...
by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 30, 2003
Putting it to Bed 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...
