Complete Book Of Cordwood Masonry Housebuilding: The Earthwood Method
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (750 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0806985909 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Build a low-cost, energy-efficient home! Rob Roy, cordwood's most famous builder, with the help of nearly 300 photos and how-to illustrations with easy-to-follow directions, shows how and how not to build your very own stunning log-end home. Full-color photos throughout. 264 pages (8 in color), 290 b/w illus., 8 x 10.
Very practical manual for owner builders A Customer Rob and Jaki Roy have done a nice job of organizing their cordwood manual into useful chapters for the differnet stages of owner built cordwood house construction. The included photos of other cordwood houses was both exciting and informative. The best part of the book is how they tell you what products and methods they recommend highly, those they don't, and those others . built my first cordwood building! M. Ennis This book gives you all the "how to" that you'll need. I'd never built anything before, but using this book alone I pulled off building an 11 ft diameter, 6' high with a slope, circular cordwood chicken coop that is the envy of all my friends and neighbors and I'm just a small 5' female. The coop cost me under $300 and is awesome. The thing that I like most about this book. An excellent book on an alternative home building method. This is an excellent book on the construction of a house using cordwood (firewood) "bricks". If you have the inclination and minor construction skills to seriously considering self-constructing a unique house or structure, you should look at this book. Lots of pictures and examples of houses constructed by students of the author and others, a candid walkthrough of the evol