Logs, Wind and Sun: Handcraft Your Own Log Home Then Power It with Nature
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.73 (567 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0965809838 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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This section makes their work stand out from other log-building books. The Ewings take a clear, step-by-step approach to log building-a project one obviously should not undertake without considerable building experience. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. The Ewings show readers how to do just that in this account of how they built a log house and then powered it using sun and wind. For most people, this would be a monumental undertaking, and so it was for the Ewings. . Purchase where there is strong reader interest in building construction or in rural living. Fully a third of the text is devoted to explaining how to run one's home completely off the power grid. Using a combination of brains and hard work, they solved this problem and many others. Re
A Customer said A Must Read for Log Home Wannabes. Logs, Wind and Sun is one of those rare books that is both packed with useful information and enjoyable to read. I only wish it had been available five years ago when my husband and I started drawing up plans for our own log home. We spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars trying to get utilities to our remote mountain building site. This book clearly lays out alternative power solutions that can giv. Georgie Wingfield said Interesting, informative and easy to read!. When I started reading Logs Wind and Sun, I imagined I would skim the more detailed parts about construction since I don't plan to build a log home. I bought the book because I was interested in solar and wind generated electricity. But in the end, I read everything. Whenever I tried to skim, I soon came across something that caught my interest and, before I realized it, I was totally entranced with the story. Enjoyable reading with a wealth of information I have been reading everything I can find about log homes. Most of the books I have read are more like an information text book. Lots of facts but boring. Logs Wind and Sun gives you the facts and how to use them along with a very enjoyable story of the trials and tribulations the authors encountered building there own log home. This gives you a much better idea of what to expect building your own log home fr
After handcrafting two log homes in the 1980s, Rex spent several years raising Thoroughbred horses and operating an equine nutrition firm, where he formulated and marketed numerous nutrition products worldwide. . Rex and LaVonne Ewing currently live and work from their solar- and wind-powered log home
In the log-home building section, author Rex Ewing discusses site selection, plans and permits, excavation and foundation work, lifting and building with logs, roof framing, log settling issues, chinking and finishing logs. Filled with over 300 photos and illustrations, plus a comprehensive appendix with additional resources.. Logs, Wind and Sun (now completely revised and released under a new title, Crafting Log Homes Solar Style) is an inspiring, hands-on guide to self-sufficiency that takes you through every aspect of handcrafting a log home and then bringing it to life using power from the wind and sun. And for the woman's point of view, you will find LaVonne's LogBooks, a chronological diary of their two-year log-home project. Drawing on their own experiences, and those of others in the Colorado Rockies, they show you simply and enjoyably just how attainable off-the-grid, log home living can be. The renewable energy section includes 'A New Philosoph