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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 a Model of the House
Over the last number of months, there's been a lot of thinking, dreaming and rethinking going on. As things look now, I'm leaning towards using Cliff Shockey's method of building walls - two walls with fiberglass insulation and a vapor barrier. I figure this is the...
Good Times, Bad Times – Rubble Trench Part II
What a difference a week can make. Russ called to let me know that he was out at our building site on Tuesday and completed the digging necessary to allow proper drainage of our rubble trench. Then on Friday, I arrived early in the morning and proceeded to clean out...
Good Times, Bad Times – Rubble Trench Part I
From the start, there would be good times and bad times. This last week was one of those bad times. It all started out very promising but as you will read, things ended the week on a bad note. The goal this month was to get the rubble trench foundation dug before...
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