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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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Up go the Floor Support Beams
Hello and welcome to the "Fun with Girders Show"! The delivery of the 2" x 10" x 20' pressure treated boards arrived on Wednesday afternoon. A total of 64 of these boards will be used to make 16 girders to support the second floor. Four boards are bolted together to...
Up go the First Floor Outer Beams
Just Beaming Along This week ended a day short for me as I could not pass up my favorite event of the year - The Midwest Renewable Energy Fair in Amherst, Wisconsin. But before I get to that, the weather cooperated last week and I was able to get all of the first...
First Floor Posts Erected
I guess I'll never be happy. Either it's raining or the deer flies are out. I don't know why they call them deer flies I've never seen them with antlers, but they are certainly not "dear" flies. This week marked the start of the deer fly season. They start harmless...
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