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Welcome
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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6.4kW Solar Panel Installation – Part I
Earlier this year (late January) I started getting bids to install a new solar array. The purpose of this array was to get us closer (and maybe slightly beyond) net zero -- meaning that our renewable energy production would equal our consumption of fossil fuel...
Do Solar Panels Still Produce Meaningful Power After 16 Years?
It's been 16 years since installing our 4kW solar array and thought now was a good time to see how production is compared to the first year. The NREL (National Renewable Energy Lab) predicts that panels produced after the year 2000 should degrade about .4% per...
Venting the Greenhouse
Late last summer I completed the construction of our 14' x 20' greenhouse. I decided to build the greenhouse from scratch instead of buying a kit because I really didn't like the fact that the kits don't allow for the sides to be removed or in some cases open at all....
Current Weather at Day Creek
