Our post and beam, shed-roofed, 43' x 25' design has 14 infilled cordwood panels between the posts. The minimum number of filled panels we need to be able to live there during this winter is eight: this would give us the kitchen, bath, one bedroom, and a bit of living area. But we can only lay cordwood until about mid-September, because lime-putty mortar doesn't set up well in really hard frosts. So our goal has been 8 panels by mid-September. Looks pretty doable at this point (maybe we can fill 10 panels, which would give us more living area and the other bedroom!).
The following pictures show the fifth panel, which is actually the center panel of the three well-glazed south-facing living-room panels. This went fast because the window frame took up so much room.
Here are Isaac and Heather, completing the top of the center panel. Note Joe's homemade scaffolding:
Check out Isaac's under-the-window cordwood pattern!
Laying a bottle end:
Joe is sitting in the window well. 18-inch-thick walls make window frames with a lot of options! (You can see one particularly bright turquoise bottle end as well.)
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