This Simple Wire Trick Kept His Bedroom 25° Warmer
Автор: Outland Man
Загружено: 2025-12-16
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In the brutal winters of northern Minnesota, one settler built a plain log cabin like everyone else. But then he did something that made his neighbors shake their heads. He framed a second, lighter structure about two feet outside his cabin walls and wrapped the whole thing in wire mesh. Folks joked that he was building himself a chicken coop instead of a house.
What they didn’t realize was what came next. Once the wire frame was in place, he packed the entire gap with dry autumn leaves and pine needles. That loose, natural fill created a thick, dead-air space all the way around the cabin—a two-foot insulation shell that stopped heat from escaping before it ever reached the cold air outside.
While nearby cabins cracked, leaked, and bled heat through failing chinking, his so-called “Leaf House” held steady. Even during the coldest nights, the bedroom stayed a full 25 degrees warmer than the outside air, relying mostly on body heat instead of burning through firewood.
This forgotten double-shell method shows how early settlers used simple materials, wire mesh, and a basic understanding of insulation to survive extreme winters. Sometimes staying warm wasn’t about bigger fires—it was about trapping heat before it ever had a chance to escape.
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