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OT: Saunas

We have a Sunlighten mPulse 2 person sauna but it’s not portable and was $5k (20th anny present for the Queen in lieu of jewelry). We love it! Use it often.
 
Deepster said:
Really? I can name a pizza place at the North Pole and someone has an opinion and not a single person has a sauna?
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I’m a Finn. 165 is too cold to get in, and that’s the max. Not White Death approved. If you want a real sauna, it has to be a wood stove. There are tricks to keep costs down, but the lumber just isn’t cheap nowadays.

To get the real benefits, you need to be in there from 175-200. That’s when you feel your eyes stinging from the nitrates in the lunch meat you’ve eaten, and you sleep like a baby after the detox.
 
Fun little winter war fact: Part of the Finnish strategy to keep troops healthy snd morale up - was to build portable saunas and bring them up near the front lines.
 
Deepster said:
Really? I can name a pizza place at the North Pole and someone has an opinion and not a single person has a sauna?
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That's hilarious.

It doesn't matter how much your sauna costs, it's not a real sauna unless there is an old naked guy in there with you. There's something about an old naked guy within a foot of you that really gets the toxins moving. Really recommend shelling out the dough for a quality old naked dude, if you can afford it.
 
Jaydumo20 said:
That's hilarious.

It doesn't matter how much your sauna costs, it's not a real sauna unless there is an old naked guy in there with you. There's something about an old naked guy within a foot of you that really gets the toxins moving. Really recommend shelling out the dough for a quality old naked dude, if you can afford it.
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I have a Finlandia sauna, for 3-5 people depending on size. It came with the house and I rarely use it, mostly because I forget it’s there. Temperature has gone up to 180-190, depending on where you are sitting in the sauna.
 
Scottzer said:
I’m a Finn. 165 is too cold to get in, and that’s the max. Not White Death approved. If you want a real sauna, it has to be a wood stove. There are tricks to keep costs down, but the lumber just isn’t cheap nowadays.

To get the real benefits, you need to be in there from 175-200. That’s when you feel your eyes stinging from the nitrates in the lunch meat you’ve eaten, and you sleep like a baby after the detox.
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Believe there are some studies that show >190 can be harmful.

175-185 is 🤌🤌
 
Jaydumo20 said:
That's hilarious.

It doesn't matter how much your sauna costs, it's not a real sauna unless there is an old naked guy in there with you. There's something about an old naked guy within a foot of you that really gets the toxins moving. Really recommend shelling out the dough for a quality old naked dude, if you can afford it.
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Chief and Andre?
 
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KembaRunner said:
Believe there are some studies that show >190 can be harmful.

175-185 is 🤌🤌
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Eh, studies conflict with each other. Hard to say exactly where is best, but the quick sweat release at the higher temps really seems to help with the removal of toxins. Our sauna record is 240, but I wasn’t there that day. I’ve been in at 220 multiple times, and that is brutal. Have to hose the benches down with cold water just to be able to take a seat. 200 is about the max relatively comfortable temp for me. And yes, from an honor perspective, we only sit on the top bench.

I recall one of my junior high friends did his science fair project on body temp in saunas. His temp got up to about 105 - I wouldn’t want to go too far above that. (He’s a Finn, so I’m guessing his sauna was in the 185 range).
 
Scottzer said:
I’m just not sure the saunatonttu (guardian spirit elf/gnome,of the sauna) would approve of a pellet stove.
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Anything plugged into a wall outlet is not likely to be approved by the sauna gods.

I've been researching options. Most of the options that plug into a regular wall outlet are useless - one exception is a pellet stove made for a sauna.
 
Jaydumo20 said:
That's hilarious.

It doesn't matter how much your sauna costs, it's not a real sauna unless there is an old naked guy in there with you. There's something about an old naked guy within a foot of you that really gets the toxins moving. Really recommend shelling out the dough for a quality old naked dude, if you can afford it.
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He is the old naked guy.
 
Build your own sauna, what could go wrong…..

This past July, I spent a few days at my cousins lake house on Cross Lake, which is in upstate Minnesota. Her husband built a homemade, wood burning sauna that they used for years and which coincidentally, he had used early in the evening the last night we were there. Well, hours later, my cousin came running into the house at 3:30am yelling “ the saunas on fire the saunas on fire “.
One picture is her husband pissing on the fire with a garden hose before the fire department showed up and one showing the end result of the fire. Notice the hot box on the ground. Luckily, the structure was detached from the main house.
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Scottzer said:
I’m a Finn. 165 is too cold to get in, and that’s the max. Not White Death approved. If you want a real sauna, it has to be a wood stove. There are tricks to keep costs down, but the lumber just isn’t cheap nowadays.

To get the real benefits, you need to be in there from 175-200. That’s when you feel your eyes stinging from the nitrates in the lunch meat you’ve eaten, and you sleep like a baby after the detox.
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Love Finnish sauna. A bit drier than the Russian, do you guys also do the cold plunge in between sets?
 
Scottzer said:
I’m a Finn. 165 is too cold to get in, and that’s the max. Not White Death approved. If you want a real sauna, it has to be a wood stove. There are tricks to keep costs down, but the lumber just isn’t cheap nowadays.

To get the real benefits, you need to be in there from 175-200. That’s when you feel your eyes stinging from the nitrates in the lunch meat you’ve eaten, and you sleep like a baby after the detox.
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Mister P said:
Build your own sauna, what could go wrong…..

This past July, I spent a few days at my cousins lake house on Cross Lake, which is in upstate Minnesota. Her husband built a homemade, wood burning sauna that they used for years and which coincidentally, he had used early in the evening the last night we were there. Well, hours later, my cousin came running into the house at 3:30am yelling “ the saunas on fire the saunas on fire “.
One picture is her husband pissing on the fire with a garden hose before the fire department showed up and one showing the end result of the fire. Notice the hot box on the ground. Luckily, the structure was detached from the main house.
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@Scottzer hot enough for you?
 
Jaydumo20 said:
That's hilarious.

It doesn't matter how much your sauna costs, it's not a real sauna unless there is an old naked guy in there with you. There's something about an old naked guy within a foot of you that really gets the toxins moving. Really recommend shelling out the dough for a quality old naked dude, if you can afford it.
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Deepster said:
Really? I can name a pizza place at the North Pole and someone has an opinion and not a single person has a sauna?
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I don't care what anybody says, Prancer's Pizza is the best. Dasher's Deep Dish SUCKS.
 
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knicksin7 said:
Love Finnish sauna. A bit drier than the Russian, do you guys also do the cold plunge in between sets
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Somewhat. There’s a brook with a decent little hole in it about 70 yards away. It’s usually too cold outside of late soring or early fall, - but we have all rolled in the snow naked. I find that pretty brutal - the snow feels like it gets under your skin.
 
WhereistheDove? said:
@Scottzer hot enough for you?
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Hot eough, but too Smokey. Our sauna is similar - couple key features. The wall with changing room’s access to the stove is brick for the first 3 or 4 feet. One wall of the sauna will get hot - and you need to hose it down on hot saunas. Those tongue in groove boards turned a bit black, as if they were starting to smolder.

The other key is a ventilation peep hole - and we always open that when leaving the sauna. Spraying down the hot walls and opening the peep hole will go a long way toward fire avoidance.

The stove itself, at this point, is the danger. It was fabricated in the 1980s, but it’s not a traditional stove. Walls are a bit thinner, and after 35 plus years of high temp fires have caused the sides to buckle a bit. We’ve take the stove out to repair - and the lighter weight of it make it possible to lift over the rails to do the work. But, I think we would have been better off with a more robust stove and never having to repair it, and removing the two lowest benches for access when that stove would finally need replacement.

The short chimney run has meant that we probably clean it every other year (and it’s never too bad).
 
Perfect timing for this thread. I'm looking at putting a sauna on our property by a pond. Should be perfect for a cold plunge! No electricity on that part of the property so we have to go with either wood fired or propane (which I'm not sure exist).

Any recommendations for saunas and heaters very much appreciated.

.......and if you need the mandatory old, fat, sweaty old guy for your sauna I'm your man.
 
uconndogs said:
Perfect timing for this thread. I'm looking at putting a sauna on our property by a pond. Should be perfect for a cold plunge! No electricity on that part of the property so we have to go with either wood fired or propane (which I'm not sure exist).

Any recommendations for saunas and heaters very much appreciated.

.......and if you need the mandatory old, fat, sweaty old guy for your sauna I'm your man.
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We got our barrel sauna from Costco. It came with an electric heater…can probably get with wood stove. It was a great deal at 4K for 4 person. They also had a 6 person I think it is made by Almost Heaven.

Only addition was I had a boat canvas guy make a cover for the top 1/2, as rain dripped through it the boards. Did the trick
 
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