Stove room

84°C

Three benches, a wood-burning stove and a window onto the birches.

Wood stove burning in a timber sauna room with a window onto birch trees

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Temperature: 80–88 °C at the top bench
Humidity: 10–20 % before water, about 30 % after a ladle
Places: 14 on three tiers
Stones: 220 kg of peridotite
Wood: About 35 kg of birch a day, split on site
Heat-up: 2 h 30 min from cold; the first fire is lit at 04:30

The stove is fed every 40 minutes by whoever is on shift. Ask before you throw water: one ladle per round, and only when the people on the top bench agree.

The top bench is 1.1 m above the floor and about 12 °C hotter than the bottom one. Start low.

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Other rooms

72 °C Smoke sauna
45 °C Steam room