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Cordwood Building: A Comprehensive Guide to the State of the Art - Fully revised Second Edition

Author/EditorRoy, Rob (Author)
ISBN: 9780865718289
Pub Date01/10/2016
BindingPaperback
Pages288
EditionSecond Ed
Dimensions (mm)229(h) * 203(w) * 12(d)
Build beautiful cordwood buildings with comprehensive state of the art guidance from the world's leading authority
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Cordwood masonry walls are low-cost, easy to build, aesthetically pleasing, and score high environmental points for making use of low-impact materials. This fully revised second edition of the most widely read and used book on cordwood construction presents the latest innovations and on-the-ground experience from four decades of cordwood building and research. New chapters cover the practical how-to and the full depth and breadth of cordwood construction, including load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls, integrating electrical wiring, innovations on corner designs, new mortar options such as lime putty, and the latest on cob-cordwood, insulation options, and bottle-end designs. There is detailed treatment of code compliance, efficient house shapes, and design considerations. Richly illustrated and augmented with fresh case studies ranging from Hawaii and the Adirondacks to Tasmania and Michigan, Cordwood Building remains the most comprehensive book available on cordwood masonry construction methods. Rob Roy has been building, researching and teaching about cordwood masonry for four decades.
Widely recognized as a world leading authority on cordwood construction, Rob started Earthwood Building School in 1981 to train builders in the latest cordwood building methods. He has authored and edited a dozen books on alternative and natural building including the first edition of Cordwood Building, Timber Framing for the Rest of Us, Earth-Sheltered Houses, and Stoneview. Rob has also presented four videos, including two about cordwood, and has taught cordwood masonry all over the world.

Cordwood masonry walls are low-cost, easy to build, aesthetically pleasing, and score high environmental points for making use of low-impact materials. This fully revised second edition of the most widely read and used book on cordwood construction presents the latest innovations and on-the-ground experience from four decades of cordwood building and research. New chapters cover the practical how-to and the full depth and breadth of cordwood construction, including load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls, integrating electrical wiring, innovations on corner designs, new mortar options such as lime putty, and the latest on cob-cordwood, insulation options, and bottle-end designs. There is detailed treatment of code compliance, efficient house shapes, and design considerations. Richly illustrated and augmented with fresh case studies ranging from Hawaii and the Adirondacks to Tasmania and Michigan, Cordwood Building remains the most comprehensive book available on cordwood masonry construction methods. Rob Roy has been building, researching and teaching about cordwood masonry for four decades.
Widely recognized as a world leading authority on cordwood construction, Rob started Earthwood Building School in 1981 to train builders in the latest cordwood building methods. He has authored and edited a dozen books on alternative and natural building including the first edition of Cordwood Building, Timber Framing for the Rest of Us, Earth-Sheltered Houses, and Stoneview. Rob has also presented four videos, including two about cordwood, and has taught cordwood masonry all over the world.

Rob Roy has been building, researching and teaching about cordwood masonry for four decades. Widely recognized as a world leading authority on cordwood construction, Rob started Earthwood Building School in 1981 to train builders in the latest cordwood building methods. He has authored and edited a dozen books on alternative and natural building including the first edition of Cordwood Building, Timber Framing for the Rest of Us and Earth-Sheltered Houses. Rob has also presented four videos, including two about cordwood masonry and has taught cordwood masonry all over the world.

Acknowledgments Prologue: History of Cordwood Masonry The Origin of Cordwood Contruction by William H. Tishler An Old Cordwood House Near Stockholm by Olle Lind Historical Variations by Olle Hagman Our Personal History by Rob Roy Introduction What is Cordwood Building? But Why Build with Cordwood? How? PART 1: CORDWOOD BASICS 1. Three Cordwood Masonry Styles Cordwood Infilling Within a Strong Timber Frame Cordwood as Curved Load-bearing Walls Cordwood with Stackwall Corners Door Frames Summation 2. The Wood What Kind or Species of Wood Is Best? How Long Should the Wood Dry? Should I Bark (or "Debark" - Means the Same Thing) the Wood? How Much Wood Should I Cut? How Thick Should the Walls Be in a Cordwood Home? How Should I Cut the Wood? Split Wood or Round Log-ends? Can I Mix Species of Wood in the Same Wall? 3. Building Cordwood Walls 101 The Mortar Insulation Options Building a Cordwood Wall Window Bucks Pointing Cleaning the Log-ends 4. Building with Cordwood 202 Wood Expansion Wood Shrinkage after the Build Mortar Cracks When Everything Shrinks - A Solution Building Thicker Cordwood Walls Within a Timber Frame Time Efficiency Stand Back from the Wall PART 2: THE NEW STATE OF THE ART 5. Is Cordwood Green? Sustainability Leaving Little Impact on the Planet Low Embodied Energy Energy Efficiency The Healthy Home So, Is Cordwood Masonry Green? 6. Double-wall Cordwood by Cliff Shockey and Rob Roy Introduction Solar Design Foundations and Under-floor Radiant Heat The Double-wall Cordwood Technique The Evolution of Double-wall Cordwood 7. Foam Insulation with Cordwood Open Cell Foam Soy-Based Foam Foam Insulation with Single-wall Cordwood 8. Bottle-ends and Other Design Features Making Bottle-ends Creating Bottle-end Designs Design Features at Mushwood 9. Electrical Wiring in Cordwood Masonry Buildings by Paul Mikalauskas, Mike Abel and Rob Roy Wiring Mushwood 10. Lime Putty Mortar by Rob Roy and Bruce Kilgore A Short History Lime Putty Mortar Versus Portland-based Mortar Making Lime Putty and Lime Putty Mortar Pay Attention to Detail 11. Cobwood Revisited Cobwood at Earthwood Our Latest Cobwood Wall Building To Summarize 12. Paper-enhanced Mortar by Jim Juczak, Alan Stankevitz, Tom Huber and Rob Roy Papercrete, or Paper-enhanced Mortar (PEM) My Paper-enhanced Mortar Cellulose-enhanced Mortar Paper-enhanced Mortar Observations 13. Cedar Eden: Design Considerations by Tom Huber The Pattern that Connects Place-based Design Considerations for Cold Climates The Hobbit Way of Homesteading A Cabin with Four Doors Intentional Patterns - The Nature of Order; Building as Sacred Practice Retreat from the World 14. Cordwood-to-mortar Ratio: An Analysis Consistency in Cordwood Build Quality Varying Wood-to-mortar Ratios Impact of Wood-to-mortar Ratio 15. Cordwood Cutoff Table for a Chainsaw by Rob Roy and Bruce Kilgore Fabrication Skills Needed You Will Also Need The Frame PART 3: CASES STUDIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD 16. The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership by Studio Gang Architects Why Wood Masonry? Learning from the Experts Playing by the Rules Thermal and Structural Constraints Pushing the Limits with Digital Tools Mixing It Up Not the End 17. My Cordwood Construction Evolution by Geoff Huggins Cordwood Constants. . .and Why Cordwood Embellishments. . .and Why 18. Adirondack Cordwood Cabin by Rarilee Conway (with James Conway) If I Was to Do It Again 19. Ravenwood: A Labor of Love in Northern New York by Bruce Kilgore (with Nancy Dow) Our Cordwood Odyssey A Five-year Plan The Trisol Design Breaking Ground Racing to Get the Roof On Cordwoodi

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