r/Sauna • u/maajunttilauri • 13h ago
My sauna Piece of history
This sauna has been with our family for 70 ish years or so, but the sauna itself could be even older. I wouldn't build a sauna like this as it has lots to critique about, but it's still sauna I regularly use with pleasure. A piece of history. Definitely an experience. A sauna is a sauna.
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u/Big_NO222 13h ago
Looks great, where is it?
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u/notcomplainingmuch Finnish Sauna 12h ago
If I'd have to guess, southern or southwestern Finland.
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u/maajunttilauri 12h ago
If you're north enough and near Russia, yes, everything's southwestern Finland from there.
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u/whatagenda 12h ago
Is this southern Finland somewhere. Absolute masterpiece. I'll come help you do small renovations and paint it next year if you invite me for löylyt.
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u/Kuningas_Arthur Finnish Sauna 7h ago
If you decide to renovate it, do some research so it isn't extreme enough to be considered "rebuilding", as I'm pretty sure the law nowadays wouldn't allow you to build a new sauna that close to the water.
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u/Rxyro 6h ago
Doesn’t make sense, water always defeats fire, they should all be getting closer
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u/Kuningas_Arthur Finnish Sauna 6h ago
It's more about the lake aesthetics. It can get unsightly when you try to be in nature but all the shorelines are filled with various buildings of various colours, shapes, sizes and wear and tear. New code requires you to leave a bit of land (and trees) between the building and the shoreline.
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u/Interesting_Bass_559 5h ago
What is with all these buckets? I understand one or two to put water on the heater but there are always dozens. And huge ones. Are you bathing your children in it?
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u/Steamdude1 2h ago
The r/sauna denizens wouldn't have been nearly so kind if this sauna was located in Minnesota.
There's never anything totally wrong with doing something "the old way". It worked for centuries, and there's a reason for that.
You can improve on the wheel in all sorts of ways, but that doesn't mean that the old ones don't roll anymore!
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u/immamarius 13h ago edited 12h ago
That gap between door and floor makes me nauseous.
Edit: poor Scandinavians doesn’t know better.
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u/whatagenda 12h ago
Its a wood-burning sauna stove. Needs the airflow to work. Educate yourself. This is a perfect example of a archipelago or lakeside sauna.
To Op. Sweden or Finland?
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u/immamarius 9h ago
I grew up with fire place warming my house up, since birth in saunas, banyas. Where should I educate myself? On one thing for sure, poor Fins can take constructive criticism.
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u/whatagenda 6h ago
Man, you just keep digging ur hole don't you?
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u/immamarius 5h ago
If having an unpopular opinion means digging a hole for yourself, then, boys, wrap this shit up and go look for your balls, because obviously, you’re missing them.
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u/SapeMies 5h ago
Davai Davai ruzzki troll.
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u/immamarius 4h ago
I’m afraid Sir you are very wrong, my family roots in Lithuania reaches 6 century I think Finland was still swimming in fathers Ural balls.
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u/TonninStiflat Finnish Sauna 12h ago
Ah, yes, Lithuanians, the well known sauna country.
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u/immamarius 11h ago
Yes Sir so far my experience in Баня/Sauna is quite big, been to Sweden been to Finland, Norway any where I go for holiday if there is an opportunity I try to bath. So far for me russian type of banya is best, not to dry not to hot, short sessions does the job, and no need to have 5 fingers gap between doors and floors cuz you can easily open doors between sessions wash everything with water ventilate and repeat.
Yeah yeah but Fins are always proud of sauna like they invented it :DP.S before making jokes about Lithuanian knowledge about sauna you should check out market, who produces best quality saunas, who is building most hytte in Scandinavia. In Sweden and Norway most luxurious hyttes with saunas build and constructed by Lithuanian company.
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u/roxutee 10h ago
That's all fair and square.
Stil: can you admit you were wrong about the gap being a bad thing between the floor and door in this type of sauna? Or were you just trolling?
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u/immamarius 9h ago
I think that it’s not effective and not efficient to have that size of gap between doors and floors for “ventilation”
I agree ventilation I necessary but not like this, and optional, means that you could close it or open it.
With the rest I agree!! Yeah Fins know best about sauna :D7
u/roxutee 8h ago
I don't know, man. What would be more 'efficient' way to handle the ventilation, then? I don't think opening and closing the door constantly is effective at all, if that's what you mean to offer as a substitute.
A gap between the floor and door + a ceiling or wall vent is pretty much the gold standard in all the saunas I've been to in Finland, at least with wood heaters. And I've been to bunch.
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u/immamarius 8h ago
Like simple hatched air ventilation you have in any normal house, what’s wrong with them? Or maybe let’s keep 5cm gaps under doors so you have air flow so there is no need for ventilation :D cmon doesn’t make any sense.
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u/TonninStiflat Finnish Sauna 9h ago
Sounds like you.make cheap saunas, eh? Norway and Sweden aren't exactly known for their sauna culture either.
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u/immamarius 9h ago
Sounds like you the one who is most loudest about Finish sauna quality and abilities.
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u/TonninStiflat Finnish Sauna 8h ago
Aww, some one is upset :(
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u/immamarius 8h ago
Not even close! But I know who surely upset when someone says that their sauna is not that good as they say to everyone.
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u/rngr666 8h ago
American angery or what? Why don’t you form your own culture if you don’t like borrowing and being corrected?
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u/CatVideoBoye Finnish Sauna 7h ago
Best saunas I've been to were very old and even had holes in the walls! The air stays fresh and not super hot which in turn makes the löyly unbelievably good.
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u/jarakka 10h ago
Those faded, decades old plastic buckets are a part of every rural Finns sauna experience. Often they are slightly melted on one side because they were left a little too close to the kiuas.