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Message: [QUOTE="Scottzer, post: 5348240, member: 5571"] 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). [/QUOTE]