tiny house / cordwood house / round house off grid

http://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!
Relevant threads at permies:
http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/8654_0/green-building/cordwood-houses
http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/1856_40/green-building/the-tiny-house-movement

music by Jimmy Pardo

https://www.patreon.com/pwvids

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