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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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Cabin Fever
The original plan was to build a room inside of the pole barn to use as temporary living quarters while I build our cordwood home. After tent camping inside of the pole barn I came to the following conclusions: Pole barns are extremely noisy during summertime...
Excavation Begins!
Over the last week, Russ Wulf and Mike Barney have been busy digging into the hillside to level out an area approximately 65' in diameter. The outside footings for the house will be 41'6" in diameter leaving 12' of clearance around the perimeter. Digging into...
First Quarter Update
The first quarter has come to an end and we have achieved most of our goals. The house design has been coming along nicely. We had an opportunity last week to meet with a couple of building contractors / excavators. We wanted to get their input as to what areas were...
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