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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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Building Solar Collector Frame – Part I
Like most projects for this house, building the frame support for the solar panels has become quite an arduous task. A total of 28 post holes needed to be dug and were accomplished using an auger attached to a tractor. Even with the tractor, it was pretty much a two...
Like a Bridge Over Doubled Circulators
Like A Bridge over Doubled Circulators Okay, I know it's a stretch but I felt compelled to some how fit Simon and Garfunkel's song into the title. This week the bridge was completed from the second floor deck to the hill in back of the house. The idea of building a...
Preparing Solar Collectors
If you recall, the February 12, 2000 journal entry discussed the arrival of the 4 x 10 foot solar panels. These panels were purchased used, so there was quite a bit of clean up work required. I had hoped that this procedure would have gone smoothly and for the most...
Current Weather at Day Creek
