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Welcome back to DayCreek.com. Daycreek.com was originally established in 1997 to chronicle our cordwood house-building adventure here in southeast Minnesota.
For those wondering, we love our cordwood house and can’t say enough good things about the house and living out in the sticks. It’s been a blast and hope to bring many more journal entries and videos to you as we move forward in our continuing adventure!
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—Alan Stankevitz
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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 100's of screws. What was I thinking?The stapler is especially made for hanging lath...
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 to put aside thousands of acres...
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 breeze. The darn thing...
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