by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 23, 2003
The Great Bottle Debate 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...
by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 16, 2003
A Tankless Job – Installing an Aquastar 125B LP Water Heater 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...
by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 8, 2003
You stack 17 feet and what do you get? You get a lot of cordwood! This was a first for this cordwood builder—17 feet of continuous cordwood from floor to ceiling. It all started last week with the Oneida crew helping with the construction of the first floor wall. By...
by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 3, 2003
New Friends My afternoon plans of getting one or two batches of mortar done have been spoiled by a thunderstorm passing through the area. It’s probably a good thing though since I haven’t found the time to do a journal entry in a couple of weeks. It...
by Alan Stankevitz | Jul 19, 2003
Cordobe Is it a cordwood wall or is it an adobe wall? Well…it’s kinda both—It’s Cordobe! Building the house has been quite an experiment, so why stop now? I’ve had great success up to this point with PEM (Paper Enhanced Mortar) and with...
by Alan Stankevitz | Jul 12, 2003
Fungus Among Us On my return trip this week I was greeted by a tree blocking my way up to the house. It was a dead elm that probably should have been cut down a while ago, but it looked like a “widow maker” to me, so it just stood there until a strong...
