Things are Heating Up!
Day I-don’t-know-what of the sauna rebuild and thing are looking up.
The Man spend a day putting up the studs, air vents and insulation. On the next day I continued from where he left off and prepped the smaller studs where the panels will be nailed to. We are recycling everything we can from the old sauna so I’ve spend a few good hours pulling nails off the old studs. Wood is expensive these days!
We finally got to start putting back the panels. The back wall has the same panels it used to, with replacements for the ones with air vents that are in different location now, so the colour is fairly uniform. On the other walls there is some changes and we didn’t spend time trying to colour match each panel to the next, hence the quite colourful side walls. It’s fine, the sauna is dark when in use and I will probably try and stain the walls anyways at some point.
Paneling is fairly easy but as ours are old and re-used, some where split and others quite wonky, making it more time consuming. It’s also really annoying making the holes for the beams and air vents. We also ran into an annoying problem with the nail gun, wondering why the fuck some nails didn’t go fully in, until we realised we are working on the brick wall and the nails are a few millimetres too long. It was 8.30pm and the Man had to hurry to the store to get shorter nails. He made it!
There is still all sorts of things that need to be done, like finishing the lower part of the wall before putting the last panels in, trims, wiring the light and new tiles on the edges where I had to rip the old ones off. We also won’t have a door for the sauna in a long time, towels hanging from a beam will have to work for now, but the most important thing is that we can actually use the sauna again!!
I wasted no time and immediately fired the stove so it could start heating while I did a fast cleanup. It takes quite a while, a little over an hour to heat up the sauna now that it doesn’t have a door and there is cold air coming in throught the brick wall on the shower side. We have plenty of firewood though as we haven’t used any in a couple months.
The Official Sauna Inspector has arrived on the premises and gave us the go-ahead to start using the sauna again!
Enjoy the rewards of your hard labor!
Steam saunas are amazing :)
I will sauna until I’m just a prune! 😂
#gotwood
#gotsplinters
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All that hard work is paying off - yaaayy! The Official Sauna Inspector deserves some extra pay lol
Yes it finally is! The doge has free housing and food, and weekly sauna time again, she is spoiled 😝
I . Am . Jealous .
I love sauna, but I live in Barcelona and we just don't have them here. But in the summer sometimes it feels like you're in a sauna 😂
You can always build one 😝 but yeah you wouldn’t really need it for most of the year, it’s plenty hot as it is. Though most Finns actually don’t like +30°C weather, but love a 75°C sauna 😁😅
A good friend of mine built one in his backyard out of an old cedar shed and a wood stove that he found, it was incredible! But that was back in Canada. I think you could build a sauna here but only if you have a country house, and only in the winter.
A place to escape from the routine; I would like to know what treatment is given to the wood so that the humidity does not damage it!
It may be surprising but usually the wood is not treated at all, there is really no need for that. When you heat the sauna and it gets moist from the steam, that is only for a little while and it’s recommened to throw in one more piece of firewood in the end to make sure the heat dries out the sauna. The panels are actually extremely dry, they weigh nothing, and to my knowledge these were put in 2004 and the sauna has been used probably about twice a week.
That surprises me, normally the wood darkens, it must be the type of wood; thanks for your time.
Oh it does darken for sure, which you can see as there is different shades of panels. New spruce or pine (not sure which these are) is pale but turns into a warm orange with time. Of course if you want it to stay more neutral colour then you need to add some sort of white wax maybe.
Very impressive DIY.
Enjoy your hard work!
Why thank you very much!
How glad I am to see that you are active on this platform! I haven't been active at all but a familiar face is everything one hopes for when returning for a little sneakpeak :D I hope everything is good with you, the man and the projects! That sauna gonna turn out to be great!
Hiii! Glad to see you here. Honestly I haven’t been active either but I’m trying to get back into this consistently :)
Well, let's challenge each other to some consistency then, shall we ;)
Deal! (She says on a 3 day delay…)
I have so many things to rebuild in my place. I'm so bad at DIY. I started a few but left them half way. Now my house looks like a construction site 😂
Haha I can sympathize with you on the unfinished projects, I have something left halfway all over the house. Once the inspiration hits, house bevare!
Congratulations!
You both "nail" it! Ahahah Sorry for the pun! This time not with a short nail, but a big ONE! Ahaha
Does a sauna like yours consumes a lot of firewood per hour? I don't have any clue about the "costs" of running a sauna at home at all..
Cheers and enjoy your brand new recycled sauna!
Ahahaha puns are always welcome here!
I honestly can’t tell you the actual price of heating the sauna because we are lucky enough to get firewood for ”free”. We usually fill up the stove a couple times to heat properly and depending on how long we stay, throw in more wood as needed.
So it's a very green option! A recycled sauna that uses firewood that you get for "free"! Perfect
ohh nice!
Thanks!
Looks like the dog loves the new sauna
This is so Finnish haha. @acidyo keeps on wishing there'd be sauna (and/or bathtub), bitch the whole country is sauna. :D
The work looks so neat. Didn't know you'd need a sauna inspector for that!
But it’s a different kind of heat, and I imagine it’s frowned upon to be naked on the streets 😝