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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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In Search of the Lost Cord (Or Two)
This title is a bit obscure, but for anyone who is a fan of the Moody Blues, you'll get this pun. Anyway... The fifteenth wall was completed this week. Only one more wall and I'll be a quarter of the way done or if you want to look at it from an optimists point of...
Installing Window Frames
One of the recent questions asked on the forum was how I was able to secure the window frames by myself. Installing the first floor window frames have been quite painless (or is it pane-less?). The rusty, trusty Bobcat has been a big help as usual. Although the 4' x...
Lucky 13th Wall
Now that the house has been slowly taking shape, so has the hill in front of the house. Earlier in the summer the hill in front of the house was shaped using a bulldozer. This did a great job of leveling things out, but not good enough for seeding a lawn. I did try...
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