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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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Raising Trusses with a Crane – Brilliant Idea!
Just Truss Me I met with the president of a local roofing and house construction company on Monday who seemed really interested in the work that I was doing. I told him my story about how I needed some help getting the roof up before November. He said that he had a...
Attempting to Raise Trusses with Gin Pole
The week was shortened a bit by rain on Monday. The rest of the week was the same old pattern. There was dense fog until about 10 AM and then the heat, humidity and lack of wind made things quite uncomfortable while working. Nobody said it would be a picnic, but it...
Building the Second Floor Frame
Sliver Me Timbers! Aye Mateys! This past week was pretty much devoted to raising the 6 x 6 timbers into place to support the trusses. I started by cutting and raising the post and beams to build the center support octagon. By Tuesday evening I had completed the...
Current Weather at Day Creek
