Building A Wooden House With Hand Tools From Local Materials…

Building A Wooden House With Hand Tools From Local Materials...

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This is a documentary movie uncovering the process of building a wooden house with hand tools from local materials starting from forest till the living space.

“Our house has been built using timber we felled and extracted from our own forest. We built it using mostly hand tools and human energy. It is timber frame construction with log walls.

The main construction holds together with wood joints – there are no nails or screws used. The walls are insulated with pine and larch shavings. Overall wall thickness is 50 centimeters.

The frame posts, sills, top beams and final cladding boards are preserved using Japanese traditional wood preservation technique. Roofing is 3 layer white oak shingles layed in two directional technique. The roof is insulated with wood fibre wool and has natural clay and lime plaster finish on the interior walls.

My aim was to build a natural wooden house, a nest for my family that would be thermo and energy efficient.” Jacob, carpenter, craftsman and founder of John Neeman Tools…

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Self Sufficient Backyard

In all that time an electric wire has never been connected to our house. We haven’t gotten or paid an electricity bill in over 40 years, but we have all the electricity we want. We grow everything we need, here, in our small backyard. We also have a small medicinal garden for tough times. Read More Here...


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