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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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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 located in the center wall of our...
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 of you not familiar with tankless water heaters, a tankless water heater is just...
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 the end of last week, the wall was up to...