Cordwood Construction Best Practices
Richard Flatau built his mortgage-free cordwood home over thirty years ago in the woods of northern Wisconsin.  Since then, he has written books & articles, conducted workshops, helped organize the 2005 & 2011 Cordwood Conferences and provided consultation to potential cordwood builders.  Richard's current focus is on developing a set of 'Best Practices' for cordwood construction that will help make this alternative building technique code compliant, energy efficient and affordable.    Included within this tome is a condensed version of the popular book Cordwood Cabin, which gives the reader step-by-step instructions on how to build a 900 sq. ft. 'best practices' cordwood building.     Cordwood Construction: Best Practices. Cordwood Shed Plans and Cordwood Cabin (written with his wife Becky) are just a few of the books available from their online bookstore. (www.cordwoodconstruction.org and www.daycreek.com)