tiny house / cordwood house / round house off grid
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- www.permies.com Matt of Feral Farm shows a tiny house made of cordwood. This off grid house is also a round house. Matt talks about the issues of cordwood contrstruction, plus issues with round house construction. Matt explains that one of the perks of cordwood construction is that once the thermal mass is heated, it will hold the heat for a day.
The biggest downside for cordwood is that as the wood dries, it shrinks. So gaps tend to form between the wood and the mortar - thus allowing wind to pass through the structure in hundreds of gaps. Or the wood cracks and provides a differend kind of gap. The solution is to use only thoroughly dried cordwood. This structure shows the benefit of using using thoroughly dried cordwood.
Matt has done a great job of reusing materials that otherwise would have been thrown away.
Complete with a micro kitchen and a wood stove. The base under the stove is an old chalkboard!
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Just stayed in this amazing little cordwood cabin for a couple nights (December 27-28, 2017). Snow on the ground and frozen outside on the first night, absolute soggy downpour on the second. The cabin stayed warm and cozy with very little firewood. I was surprised how well it kept a constant temp. No drafts at all. The only problem I had was being TOO warm! Had to open the windows until I mastered the art of a very tiny, steady fire in the woodstove. This space is super-efficient with everything one needs to live comfortably. Thanks for the tip on the difficulty of the round design. Now I'm in search of a workshop on building a cordwood cabin of my own...
Thanks for the kudos!
This is a very beautiful cabin ! I have experienced being in a cord house that was 1200 square foot. It was so quiet, warm and still as the freezing, cold, windy storm passed by during my visit ! It was 30 degrees outside and the interiors Woodstock had gone out that morning . It was 65 inside. I was shocked ! I'm so impressed that my next home will be a cord house !
This reminds me of the interior of a windmill I stayed in on the island of Santorini, Greece (in Oia). What a beautiful sunset and the accomodations were charming.
Curved work simply requires an imaginary mind and a sense of flow. I am a cabinetmaker and would love to design and build affordable cabinets for a curved-wall cordwood home. I could ship the parts for assembly on site by the builder. I mill my own local wood from salvaged logs using an Alaskan mill on a Stihl 880 engine.
I have been designing round houses for some time. the idea is to make the house larger so that you can keep cabinets and furniture away from walls. In effect you change the way in which a person views the space available. With so small a structure there was not much you could do. It is a cute property and worthwhile experiment.Thanks for showing this.
Why are younger people living in a vacuum with no input from older folks who have done this kind of thing for 40-50-60 years ? Never heard of passive solar heating ? use a chain in the rain gutter and the water will follow it.. no splashing. Put a screen on your water butt , keep the mosquitos out !
Because olders have screwed the world up and told youngers what to do the whole time they were growing up.
Because we live in a culture that: considers generational knowledge obsolete,
idolizes youth,
can't confront age, death,
vilifies admitting ignorance and requesting help.
Of course there is a lot more but these are starters...
@@marikavoss660
No.. The rulers who govern and built the platform everybody lives on screwed up the world with corruption and sorcery and mind control and trauma.
Work on yourself and stop blaming someone else. Most of the older ppl don't even understand how they too are a victim of the system. Blaming them means you're feeding the beast system.
WORK ON YOURSELF AND BE BETTER AND SHOW THROUGH YOUR BEHAVIOR HOW HUMANS SHOULD ACTUALLY BEHAVE.
Your comment has a lot of projections and misplaced anger/resentment.
@@kitteylovesu you are probably right. I agree with most of what you are saying here. Must have been having an off day.
Thank you for calling me on it.
Nice one! That water barrel could use a screen though.
That place is made to order for a cob rocket mass heater.
your tiny house it's beautiful I loved the kitchen space
I appreciate the honest comments, such as "don't think I'll be doing it again" and the downsides of a round house (though I love round houses myself!)
That is a gorgeous house!
well that is the problem with using such large sections of cord wood. Had he of used smaller, split pieces, there might not have been so much shrinking. He said he allowed it to dry for 2 years, which is pretty long, but even still, with THAT massive of pieces, I would expect more shrinkage than what he had. Cob is a great building method but consider your build sight before deciding on a building material.
I like the idea of some air through the cracks. I think a airtight structure can be unhealthy.
Open a Window.
No. You need propper ventilation. That is wasting energy in winter.
there's nothing like going to the cord bathroom whens it's 45degrees outside. good job.
Thumbs up fpr : the scale, doing it not TALKING, scrounging and using available materials where you are, sharing, and building round.. which is pleasant to live in.. Your karma can survive a trip to the hardware store... trust me on this.
With thoroughly dried wood and the proper mortar mix, log end shrinkage is pretty well a thing of the past, in my opinion. In any case, there appears to be NO shrinkage at all on Matt's house. Perhaps it was simply good pointing Rob Roy, referring to various case studies, often reports "no shrinkage occurred". Also, the problems Matt refers to of fitting cabinetry into a curved wall remains, whether one is building a large diameter round house or a small one. However, the larger the house, the lesser a problem it becomes.
Love it, if even only for the learning about cordwood structures and building round places
Might be fun to live in. Did see light shining through one crack in the wall between wood/cement though.
here i live in an old house 1920's , ha this is wonderful.
@Redshift21 after another look , i think you're right. i missed that the first couple of times i saw it. i really have some doubts now about the cordwood. I was going to participate in a project using freshly harvested trees. Considering the shrinkage here with logs that were dried for two years i have serious doubts about my project.
beautiful vid, thanks a mil! inspiring for my own new little project
@Redshift21 that's a piece of the stove shining in the light. not a hole in the wall
Good catch, good eye for detail.
I would fit some stain glass windows to this structure - probably might be a bit of luxury but it will look so great
In Oregon, that wouldn't be much of a problem, the weather is mild. I would consider it inflow air for the stove.
"found in an abandoned cabin" is that the euphemism for stealing stuff you want for your cabin?
Wow, two years just to dry the wood! That's a lot of patience.
Please do more research! This guy has a LOT of mortar between the logs.
@Redshift21 very interesting, I never would have seen that, thanks for the post.
@Redshift21 wow, that is a long time. I do like the way the cob looks when it is finished.
Great interview !
At 5:52 I saw light shine thru. Why not put a screen or mosquito netting over th barrel, keep out insects. Nice but if U're never do it again, build it bigger. I'm old n wish I could get started on one. A super duper one.
13Gladius 2 they can be enclosed with a debris trap and filters! desert folks have some AWESOME ideas!!!
where do you draw the air in for the stove?
so, why do you have this house if you have never stayed in it?
do you just rent it out to other people?
and what is the thing about people not wanting to be willing to admit they buy something to build their house?
Couldn't you use silicone or window sill caulk or more concrete to seal up cracks around the logs or plaster or some other natural wind, water proofing.yeah the concrete shrinks and the logs tend to contract to.
There are several caulkgun chinking products available for log cabins. They are applicable here as well.
I think it is not a bad idea at all, I would wait until the wood was dry before I built it, this would eliminate nearly all of the shrinking.
Somebody says he will be chasing the gaps for 10 years? I doubt it, couple seasons and the stuff will be as dry as the local climate lets it, after that I don't see it shrinking.
That is adorable!
Really beautiful
This is cool, it's like wood bricks. Looks great too.
Would it be better to have an inside and outside surface so that if a log develops a crack it does not lead all the way inside? And then any inside cavity can be stuffed with something like insulation to separate inside from outside?
That's what he did. His insulation is sawdust. He mentions it near the beginning of the video.
Why so much space around each log? Could insects be a problem with a structure like this?
I LOVE this!!!
Seems like the guy shoulda tried living there for a bit.
Thanks Paul.
I lived 5 years in Cascadia: WWOOFing in Lake Stevens, living in B'ham then Seattle...I'm intimately familiar with the challenges of the moist/dry cycles there. Given what you've explained about the shrinkage/withdrawl of the wood and mortar,...I'm struggling to really formulate a question here...does the "rain" portion of the seasons (rain, mud, August) do much for swelling the materials? How on earth does that work?
I imagine Teddy's voice from Bob's Burgers when these questions are asked....
The answer to the shelving problem might be to 'plant' the shelves into the walls at the time you build the walls...
Insulation doesn't stop air flow just so you know ;)
I love it but where is the bathroom?
if less money was spent on the outside, house could be bigger. it looks pretty,it is a pretty kids house.
I can't think of one reason to build a cord would structure; unless it was the only building option.
I'd live here in a New York Minute! When can I move in?
your name says it all.
how big is this structure diameter and height? is roof round or square? how many cords of wood /face cords were used?
200sq ft. 16' outside diameter
wow it smells nice, yeah man thats my mowie wowie maaaan, that grows up in the roof mann
So does the cordwood petrifying????
Under 2500 dollars! You go!
where is that place
fill cracks with plaster after wetting ??
2 Years ti build and labor intensive. . .What are the advantages that make it worth it?
I make 15k a year off it as an airbnb
@@matthewvanboven4349 I hope you see this question as it being such an old video.What is the diameter of this structure? Thanks.
@@lendseystinnett7213 16' exterior diameter.
Now I make over 20k a year on it
Where is a rest of house?
The granit counter could be radioactive.
Brasil .🌲🌵🌻🌼🌳
So what about the bathroom?
outhouse would be my guess
His house is about the same size. He's off grid and bonkers about tiny houses.
Buying caulk is bad karma?
nice toy. i bet the house he lives in is totally modern and filled with material possessions most people only dream of owning. i see a a lot of rich folks build "tiny homes" in their giant backyards and pretend like they could live in them if they didn't have a 4500 sq. ft. house in front of it.
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So by the comment here I can see I'm not the only one not convinced about cob wood and rocket stove lol.And as soon as you charge to give info on something it's a little fishy ....
was there a bathroom in it?
No
have you thought of using coconut fibers?
Cordwood! :D
Thier all nice
@Redshift21 cool :)
It took him 4 years !!! he must have worked alone.
Good ivd
He needs to stand facing the film man so you can hear
Probably cinder blocks wall would cost less to make cabin like this cabin and last for ever.
when people come to the conclusion hippies came to without using drugs to get there beautiful things will happen