Cordwood construction, also called cordwood masonry, is a building technique in which short lengths of debarked log are laid transversely into a wall, their ends exposed on both faces, and bedded in a mortar or cob matrix that fills the gaps between them. The technique produces a distinctively textured wall, the circular end-grain of the logs studding the mortar surface, and has been used in vernacular building in forested regions of North America and northern and eastern Europe, favored as a low-cost, low-skill way to use short offcuts and small-diameter wood unsuited to conventional framing lumber.
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Cordwood construction (also called cordwood masonry or cordwood building, alternatively stackwall or stovewood particularly in Canada) is a term used for a natural building method in which short logs are piled crosswise to build a wall, using mortar or cob to permanently secure them.
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