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The Kruza House, built in 1884 in Shawano County, Wisconsin was ”built of stovewood laid in a bed of mortar.” www.lsvejda.wordpress.com



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Cordwood Lodge Bed & Breakfast in Bracebridge, Ontario. www.bedbreakfasthome.com



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Renyard Felt's cordwood home near Adel, Georgia. The home is made of cypress and was built in the 70's. Using dry wood and building with slow curing mortar is key to minimal cracking. www.cordwoodconstruction.org


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Camp Cordwood, Northern Michigan. With cordwood building, curves are easy. www.thenauhaus.com


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Mushwood on Chataugay Lake by Rob Roy. If you do the labor yourself, and use wood from your property, this is a very inexpensive and environmentally friendly way to own a home. Image by Pseu www.flickr.com


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Cradlerock under construction, Ontario, Canada. www.cradlerockhomestead.com




Cordwood Home by Rob Roy near Rochester, NY., image by Peter Turkow. Via Rob Roy's FB page: www.facebook.com



Carlson Home near Rochester, NY. by Rob Roy. Via Rob Roy's FB page: www.facebook.com


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Local building codes often require a supporting structure, such as post and beam, then cordwood as an infill, even though the cordwood alone could support a substantial load. University of Alaska www.snras.blogspot.com


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Alan Adolphson's cordwood home, Hope, Maine. Although spacing the split wood close together is fine, it should not touch, as this could promote damp conditions leading to rot. www.midcoast.com


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The whole house is built with 14" Aspen (poplar). All the walls are load bearing. Great Stuff foam was used for insulation. Alan Adolphson. www.midcoast.com
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Alan Adolphson's cordwood home, Hope, Maine. Looks like stone from afar. www.midcoast.com


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True arches around many doors and windows. Alan Adolphson's cordwood home, Hope, Maine. www.midcoast.com

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Alan Adolphson's cordwood home, Hope, Maine. Do not place the split logs with a flat surface facing upward, they will collect rain. www.midcoast.com


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Stone fireplace & oven to left - cordwood wall on right. Alan Adolphson's cordwood home, Hope, Maine. www.midcoast.com


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Alan Adolphson's cordwood home, Hope, Maine. www.midcoast.com


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Mark and Chelsea's home in Kenai, Alaska. The walls are 14″ spruce with foam insulation in the center cavity between the two 3″ mortar beads. thenauhaus.com


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Mark and Chelsea's home in Kenai, Alaska. thenauhaus.com



Cordwood Lodge, Northern Wisconsin. daycreek.com



Cordwood Lodge, Northern Wisconsin. daycreek.com


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Cordwood home in Upstate New York, off-grid. www.rainharvest.co.za


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Luke & Amy's cordwood home of debarked cedar in Spartanburg, SC. Lots of overhang for South Carolina's wet weather. Via: cordwoodconstruction.wordpress.com



Cordwood House by Wayne Higgins (Stonewood) - Log cabin on left, shingle for the second floor, cordwood on right. www.daycreek.com

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Ravenwood is a double wall, LPM, foam insulated triangular home in upstate New York by Bruce Kilgore and Nancy Dow. www.daycreek.com



Cordwood Garage in New London, MN. Photo by Greg Harp. www.pbase.com



Cordwood Carriage House, New London, Minnesota. For a rectilinear house without a heavy post-and-beam frame, stackwall corners can be built of squared log-ends called quoins. The stacked corner functions as a post. www.facebook.com



Bear Claw by Ojibwe tribal artist Bill Paulson, in the wall of the cordwood home on the White Earth Reservation in Naytahwaush, Minnesota. cordwoodconstruction.wordpress.com






Cordwood home in Northern Wisconsin. www.daycreek.com


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www.ourcedarcottage.blogspot.com



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Richard Flatau, West Canada. www.daycreek.com


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Lakewood Hollow, www.lakewoodhollow.com



Stone, shingle and cordwood house. If you have stone on your property, start building with that. Collect logs and let them dry for about a year, then add a cordwood addition to your stone home. Image by Mark Angelini www.flickr.com



Cordwood Barn, Oconto County, Wisconsin. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com



Cordwood Barn, Oconto County, Wisconsin. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com


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Stone Creek Camp, Flat Head Lake, Montana. www.stonecreekmontana.com Architects: www.anderssonwise.com


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Stone Creek Camp, Flat Head Lake, Montana. Architects: www.anderssonwise.com


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Stone Creek Camp, Flat Head Lake, Montana. Architects: www.anderssonwise.com


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Stone Creek Camp, Flat Head Lake, Montana. www.stonecreekmontana.com Architects: www.anderssonwise.com



Cordwood home in Quebec, Canada. Love the old pipes, as well as the wall.
For more info: www.troglodium.com



Luke and Amy's cordwood home in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Via: cordwoodconstruction.org



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Mermaid Cordwood Cottage in Del Norte, Colorado. Via: cordwoodconstruction.org


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Feather by Ojibwe tribal artist Bill Paulson, in the wall of the cordwood home on the White Earth Reservation in Naytahwaush, Minnesota.. Image: Robert Zahorski. cordwoodconstruction.wordpress.com


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Grant Nicholson's arched door on his double wall, slip form, cast quions cordwood home in Owen Sound, Ontario. Via: www.facebook.com


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Glass bottles frame the window. Cordwood walls on top of a stone foundation. Image by Scot DeGraf www.flickr.com


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Indoor tile mosaic 'stream', interior cordwood wall, and hand-hewn beams from self-harvested timber at Rainbow Valley Farm. Photo by Kristi www.flickr.com



Cordwood Home (without mortar) of Armin Blasbichler, Tyrol, Italy.
www.arminblasbichler.com



Cordwood Home of Armin Blasbichler. Cordwood and clocks are sandwiched between glass. www.arminblasbichler.com



Cordwood in the bathroom.
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Mecikalski Store, built in 1900, in Jennings, Wisconsin. Eighteen-inch lengths of cedar logs were used. www.rentandmortgagefree.pdf






Cordwood Barn. www.gallery.pasty.com




Stackwell cornered barn, Canada. www.cordwoodmasonry.com



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George J. Sauvala barn, 1929. Between Houghton and Chassel Michigan. Image: Wayne Higgins. www.daycreek.com




Cordwood Barn.





Stovewood Chicken Coop, Michigan, built in the 1930s. © Bob Kisken www.fadingad.com




For a cob mortar mix: 5 gallons clay soaked in water, 5 gallons sawdust, 5 gallons dry manure, 5 gallons sand, 2-1/3 c. flour glue/EM, 1/3 c. psyllium powder, and 1 tsp. EM ceramic powder and 1-2 gallons of water. www.home-n-stead.com & www.daycreek.com



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Sage Mountain Center, Montana. Love the mix of rectangular wood with the logs. www.sagemountain.org


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Sage Mountain Center, Montana. Love the mix of rectangular/square wood with the logs. www.sagemountain.org



Cobwood construction, the inner wall space will be filled with an insulating material. www.daycreek.com



Cordwood workshop in Grand Marais. See more pictures and info here: www.bennetthouseproject.blogspot.com

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Spray foam as insulation at White Earth Reservation, Minnesota. NPR www.minnesota.publicradio.org


More about cordwood on wikipedia - www.en.wikipedia.org. Image by Greg Webster.


There are remains of cordwood buildings in Greece and Siberia that date back a thousand years.


Before you Build:

As with all building methods, planning is necessary. Logs need to be dried to prevent expansion, shrinking and cracking. Trees should be cut and debarked, then allowed to dry for 1-2 years, before they are cut into lengths. Or, if you want your wood to dry faster, split it. The wood will dry faster, and it will crack and check less when in the wall. Before placing in the wall, spray or soak the cordwood in Borax. The Borax acts as an insecticide, a wood preservative and a fungicide. Use four cups of Borax (borate) mixed in a gallon of hot water. This can be sprayed on, or the logs can be dipped in the solution. You want your mortar to be 'soft' or a little flexible, not straight concrete or brick mud, because the logs continually shrink and swell.

R-value depends on the species of wood, thickness, and insulation you chose. Cedar has an R-value of 1.5 per inch; cut to 18" the R-value would be approximately R-27. The mortar will need to be insulated to bring the R-value up to par with the wood. In Canada, Cliff Stockey builds double wall homes (not shown): two cordwood walls with a vapor barrier and insulation in between. Cliff states that a 24" (8" cordwood + 8" insulation + 8" cordwood) double wall has an R value of 40+. Although this sounds like double the work, it is not, as you only need to point the outside and most inside wall. 


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