Rob Roy

Cordwood Building (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dreamers, owner-builders, natural and sustainable building contractors, modern homesteaders

Cordwood construction - log-ends set in insulated mortar - is a versatile, economical, low-impact, and beautiful building method. And while cordwood construction's durability and performance has been proven in beautiful, centuries-old buildings in North America and Europe, there has been no trusted, practical and comprehensive book on cordwood construction methods using cordwood in a wide variety of cordwood masonry construction projects.

Distilling decades of experience, best practices, and innovations in cordwood construction, Essential Cordwood Building is the first fully illustrated, step-by-step comprehensive book on cordwood construction. Ideal for the DIYer, professional designer, and builder alike, this comprehensive book on cordwood construction covers:

• Wood species selection, log-end length, and seasoning
• New mortar options such as cement, lime putty, and cob mortar
• Wall cavity insulation options
• Budgeting and estimating for your cordwood construction
• Highly illustrated, step-by-step cordwood masonry construction methods and techniques
• Window and door frame installation
• Painting and chinking, finishing, and plastering your cordwood construction
• Special designs and decorative features
• Code references, code compliance, building science, and best practices for cordwood masonry construction methods
• Troubleshooting and maintenance.

Written by the world's leading sustainable builders, designers, and engineers, these succinct, user-friendly handbooks are indispensable tools for any project where accurate and reliable information is key to success. GET THE ESSENTIALS!

Rob Roy is widely recognized as a world leading authority on cordwood masonry construction methods. Rob has authored and edited 15 books including Cordwood Building and Stoneview . He lives in West Chazy, New York.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Society Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781550926231
• Artikelnr.: 45988402

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Cordwooding Commences Closed In! What Worked. . .and Hard Lessons Learned 20. Hexadecagons in Hawaii and Tasmania with Peter Robey and Blythe Tait (and with help from Ben Oliveros) Builder Ben Australia's First Council-approved Cordwood Residence? 21. The Hermit's Hut Cultivating Coincidence Siliconized Sealer 22. La Casa del Trunco Cultivating a Coincidence in Nicaragua Solentiname's Cordwood Homestead The Cordwood Dorm Room When We Got Home PART 4: ECONOMICS AND CODE 23. The Mortgage-free Cordwood Home The Grubstake The Land The Temporary Shelter Keep It Small Keep It Simple Use Recycled Materials Work Parties The Add-on House Strategy 24. Getting a Building Permit for a Cordwood Home Part 1: An Engineering Viewpoint by Dr. Kris J. Dick, P.E. and Professor A. M. Lansdown Part 2: A Code Enforcement Officer's Viewpoint by Thomas M. Kwiatkowski Part 3: Other Cordwood Code Issues by Rob Roy Afterword: Where We Go From Here Annotated Cordwood Masonry Bibliography Glossary of Terms Appendix: Products Index About the Author A Note About the Publisher