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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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Thank you and enjoy our website!
—Alan Stankevitz
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Revisiting Our Home’s Heat Load
On February 27, 2000 I discussed our solar heating design and in that article I briefly touched on the subject of determining our home's heat load. At the time, there wasn't a whole lot of information on the internet about the subject and I used a heat design guide to...
Testing…1-2-3…Testing.
Are we live? Testing 1-2-3. Testing. It's hard to believe but yes, we are back up and running again on a new hosting platform. I have a TON of stuff to do to get DayCreek up to full speed, but at least things have finally been ported over to a non-Windows...
Harvesting the Sun’s Energy
The digital electric meter has been installed, the contract has been signed and finally the sun is shining. To know that clean, renewable energy is powering our house and the surplus is going out on the wire to help power our neighbor's homes is quite liberating. This...
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