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Cordwood masonry is an ancient building technique whereby walls are constructed from "log ends" laid transversely in the wall. It is easy, economical, esthetically striking, energy-efficient, and environmentally-sound.
Cordwood Building collects the wisdom of over 25 of the world's best practitioners, detailing the long history of the method, and demonstrating how to build a cordwood home using the latest and most up-to-date techniques, with a special focus on building code issues.
About the Author
Author/editor Rob Roy has been building, researching and teaching about cordwood masonry for 25 years and, with his wife, started Earthwood Building School in 1981. He has written ten books on alternative building, presented four videos - including two about cordwood masonry - and has taught cordwood masonry all over the world.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Cordwood WALL Building,
By A Customer
This review is from: Cordwood Building (Paperback)
New society has hit a home run with their recent building books. Cordwood Building now moves to the front of the line for those interested in this kind of building.BUT, keep in mind these alternative methods, be they straw bale, or in this case Cordwood Building, only deal with the walls of the building (the book covers roofs, but they are basicaly standard details). All the difficult decisions, and high performance solutions are really needed to build the floors, roofs, and foundations, but these don't seem sexy topics for alternative construction. Cordwood is just a slow way to build walls that would be every bit as good (with careful detailing) and a lot more resalable if they were made from 2x lumber. Rather than spending weeks or months getting your walls up, 2x takes an afternoon for 2 people on average sized floorplan of the kind of house being built here. We have a group building a cement and foam alternative construction at the end of the road, and they are engaged in months of building with their floor exposed to the weather, while they finish off walls that would have taken a crew of two only a week. Beware of these nifty solutions to non-problems. It only take 1 4x4 per 8-10 of wall to hold up a second story, don't fall into wallism in building your house. If you want to learn about cordwood, however, this IS the book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Author Rob Roy draws upon his many years of experience,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cordwood Building (Paperback)
Cordwood Building: The State Of The Art by Rob Roy (cordwood builder, researcher, teacher, and co-founder of the Earthwood Building School) presents construction professionals and do-it-yourself home improvement hobbyists with the latest techniques of the ancient building method called cordwood masonry where the walls are constructed of short logs are laid transversely in much the same manner as a cord of firewood is stacked. Author Rob Roy draws upon his many years of experience, along with 25 of the world's best practitioners to describe the long history of cordwood masonry, how to build a cordwood home, as well as the use of Lomax corners, paper-enhanced mortars, creating round, hexagonal, and other building shapes. Cordwood Building outlines the "5-E" advanced of this construction style: Ease of Construction; Economy, Esthetics; Energy-Efficiency; and Ecological Harmony. Profusely illustrated, Cordwood Building is an unusual and invaluable contribution to personal and professional Building Construction reference collections.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very informative,
By Cleo "cre7000" (Calgary, Alberta) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cordwood Building (Paperback)
This is a great book for learning about cordwood building in laymans terms.Highly recommended reading for anyone considering this building alternative.
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