Getting Started With Solar Power
Curious about solar? Wondering how you can make more sustainable choices or maybe even go off the grid? This comprehensive quick-start guide will help you get started.
All About Off Grid Wastewater: Options, Septic, Code, and Advice
As green builders, we spent a lot of time looking at alternative methods of waste disposal including greywater systems and composting toilets. Unless you are truly out of the bounds of any type of code enforcement and/or don’t care about being a good steward and neighbor, you will likely encounter issues with your waste water […]
DIY Cedar Siding for CHEAP
Cedar siding can be a beautiful way to side a home, but it usually comes at a premium. Follow along as we show you our DIY cedar siding
Natural Homebuilding and The Code
You want to build a house with a natural homebuilding method like cordwood, straw-bale, cob, or earthship. Or maybe you just want to build a house off the grid. In this post, I’ll detail exactly what we did to meet the needs of our local code officials while still being able to build our cordwood house […]
How to Prevent Rot in your Cordwood Walls
I’ve fielded a lot of questions in various Facebook groups over the past several weeks about common myths and misconceptions about cordwood masonry. In this post, I hope to address some of the most common concerns people had and provide helpful information for all of you curious cordwood enthusiasts out there. ***There may be affiliate links […]
Using Bottles In Cordwood Walls
This has been the MOST ASKED QUESTION recently from people on Facebook and Instagram, not to mention in real life whenever friends familiar with our project are talking with us about it. What are you doing with all those bottles? Answer: Making “bottle bricks” to put in our cordwood walls. Why? They let in light, […]
Cordwood For Beginners
Cordwood Masonry is great for DIY builders but requires knowledge and practice to do successfully. Here we’ll provide you the valuable resources we used to get our building off the ground and show you some tricks we learned along the way.
How To Prep Cedar Trees for Cordwood Building
Since school let out, we have spent nearly every day working on our property prepping trees! Any time NOT spent working on the property has been spent working on school stuff for next year, practicing/gigging, or spending time with our adorable little boy. Or doing all of the above! We’ve been steadily prepping our […]
