While electric saunas are convenient nothing beats the ambience and rolling heat of a wood burning sauna stove.
Wood fired sauna designs.
And its pronounced souna not sa.
Never install a wood burning rock heater on top of a concrete patio slab that is on top of the wood floor.
Even if it isn t you could probably turn it into one in your own design.
The barrel sauna concept is the ideal outdoor sauna.
Wood burning sauna diy.
Most hospital saunas in finland use aspen which is the most hypoallergenic wood for sauna design use.
It has been known to ignite the wooden sauna floor about 8 hours later.
A good ventilation system insures adequate amounts of fresh air in the sauna which in turn makes the sauna feel much more open much more comfortable and helps users avoid the sense of light headedness.
Aspen is very light in color for a more soothing sauna experience.
The sauna room needs ventilation.
The most important thing is to choose the location carefully because it has to be well insulated and away from fixtures and fittings.
Finnmark sauna are the uk finnish sauna specialists.
It will show you how to turn your bathroom into a wood fired sauna or an infrared sauna.
So have your marsh mellows on standby.
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This is just a picture meant to share a design of what others have done with wood burning hot tubs and saunas.
This is my first instructable but i have used so many for ideas and love the community input.
Barrels clear or knotty cedar.
I live in downstate michigan and went to college in the up met a whole crew of finlanders and was introduced to the sauna.
Your choice of either knotty or clear western red cedar barrel saunas barrel saunas have 1 1 2 thick walls for natural insulation and the barrel design gives you a much smaller heating area than a rectangular sauna with plenty of room for bathers.
This means that more people especially in public or club saunas can enjoy the benefits of sauna without irritating certain respiratory conditions as cedar sometimes can.
Simple practical and beautiful.
It is a heritage that many cultures worldwide have treasured for hundreds of years captured and reinterpreted for modern living in today s wood burning sauna heaters.
Sauna heaters and wood burning stoves are very efficient so the area below the sauna stove will heat up the concrete patio stone.
The quality of heat from a wood fired sauna stove cannot be matched by any other type of sauna heater.
If you want a traditional sauna the builder recommends cedar wood because it doesn t expand too much when it gets hot.
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Good ventilation is one of the most commonly over looked sauna design features.
The stove is the heart of your sauna and the only thing keeping it from being a storage room.
However i m making a little bit of an assumption that the building is a sauna.
