Building Off Grid Sauna in the Forest

[@annetjievz]

Lovely to see Matthias on here. Talasbuan is one of my favourite off-grid channels.

[@maryannknox7158]

❤

[@bearfootartistry]

Mine also!

[@Jewelmind]

Yes, me too

[@mariusvanniekerk6329]

Annetjie jy moet Seker ook van Suid Afrika wees. Verstaan wat Ek bedoel. Niks lekkerder as ‘n log cabin met sona in die winter.

[@annetjievz]

@@mariusvanniekerk6329 Yup. Stoere boere meisie :) die naaste wat ek nog aan 'n sauna in daardie tipe koue gekom het, was 'n spa treatment by Giants Castle in die middel van die winter. .Maar dit was baie lank terug en nie naastenby so koud nie.

[@Wafapathan]

The person who is building it seems like an angel; he knows how spiritual this is and how much meaningful his work is ❤️

[@annetjievz]

Do yourself a favour and visit their off-grid channel, Talasbuan. Matthias, Tova and their little son Ivar have the most amazing videos (content and videography).

[@Wafapathan]

@@annetjievz That is the first thing I did after finishing the video ☺️🙏🏽

[@ginnicolee2502]

He is exactly that Wafa, beautiful, soulful human.

[@Wafapathan]

@@ginnicolee2502 Indeed ☺️

[@catherinejenni]

Yes, he is a great soul. Watch his own channel "Talasbuan" , where he tells about him living in the wild with his little family. Very interesting blogs, too!! 😊

[@billrisdon1]

This is how a community is meant to be. Bravo!!!

[@savingsiskola]

Yay! As a Finn Im really glad you are getting a sauna! It is the heart of any homestead. Greetings to Mathias!

[@KalleFlodin]

It's my new favorite place 🥰

[@savingsiskola]

@@KalleFlodin I understand!😊

[@miamolin]

It was so nice Mathias was helping out. Love he's channel to. ❤️

[@bakeraus]

I knew a Finn wouldn't be too far away. Sauna culture is tribal on this side of the pond.

[@savingsiskola]

@@bakeraus so true! 😄

[@kourtnilackes7086]

Great to see Mathias!! How nice to have him as your friend. What an awesome person

[@Americanmapping44]

Perfect person to ask about the sauna 😃😉 Was lovely to see Mathias and it was nice to see friends enjoying time together while helping work on it

[@HennaHuu]

As a Finnish person I can imagine the appreciation you have for a proper sauna. Enjoy!

[@lynnstash2247]

Matthias & his family I love watching also,. Talasbuan~~~

[@MountainMariner]

Notes taken on this sauna build! I plan to move my existing sauna to a cliff face overlooking Mount Denali this summer. Can’t wait to “Finnish” it.

[@rickgreen9936]

get Mathias to make a house call to help get the proper Löyly, he would be right at home on your mountain

[@Talasbuan]

@@rickgreen9936 Hehe, that would be nice

[@Banditten2002]

Nice😁 work, i love the project........🥰

[@Cherylcoder]

Love that Finnish person!!!!

[@oliverkoomen]

Matthias is the smiliest Finnish man I've every seen, lovely guy. Great video

[@agaJCh]

Hi Mathias 👋👍

[@marcellejosephine9119]

So wonderful to see Matthias on your channel and working together! Both very inspirational channels! I hope your sauna has a good löyly ✨💚

[@soffosbackan]

Bastu! Bättre sent än aldrig 😊. Hälsningar från österbotten 🇫🇮.

[@miamolin]

So nice you finally get the sauna and some Finnish touch from Matias helping you out. Finnish LÖYLY ❤️❤️❤️🙏

[@tonystrange7224]

Who wouldn’t love a sauna in their home Kalle. Wonderful to watch it all come together and also to be educated on the spiritual side of it. Thank you for sharing.

[@Kikifriedmann]

To have a friend like Matthias is truly a gift!! He must be an angel!!🙏💙

[@KalleFlodin]

He's the BEST 🥰❤️

[@elizabethharrell8707]

I love Mathias! He knows so much, glad you ae friends.

[@villevejander5721]

Grattis for your new sauna. Finnish approval

[@raraffaniello6353]

Oh the sound of the rocks being splashed. Love that.

[@marthesegauci5718]

So nice to see Matthias ....Good quality friendship

[@maryannknox7158]

So Awesome to see the Divine Masculine working together on such a beautiful Sauna lifts Up My Soul

[@hannahgraham-devries8805]

Happy for you that you finally have your sauna, Kalle! Enjoy n_n

[@KalleFlodin]

Me too 🥰

[@juhoiisakkiniemela]

Perfect! A Finnish sauna. Your sauna is hereby approved, Kalle.👏🏼

[@lynn_thinks]

I cannot help but think of the wood that is necessary for the fire for heating the sauna and for your home - and of Christina’s grief at the cutting of the forest near her parents home. How to find the balance of the cycle?

[@Talasbuan]

It is a legitimate concern, firewood is easily regenerated. No need to destroy whole ecosystems for that. It is not the use of wood that is the problem, it is the way it is harvested that is. And in sweden the forestry companies have "rationalised" their methods so they cut everything down in a large area, destroys everything, destroys the soil, the habitat, the biodiversity, and establish a monoculture with only one species of trees in straight rows and same age. The natural forest is forever gone, replaced with a monoculture with very lacking biodiversity. This is absolutely not necessary, one can use resources from the forest and still do it in a way that doesn't kill the forest.

[@rigobertogomez25]

I got the notification that you uploaded so I came immediately, but after seeing Mathias was also here, I was stocked! Loved the video❤

[@steveharris4251]

Mathias is the most genuine person on you tube...so kind and talented Kim harris

[@nordpilgrim647]

This is the best video ever!!

[@KalleFlodin]

Yaaaay!! 😍

[@THardy.]

What a glorious video. So kind of Mathias to instruct you. I love their channel, Talasbuan.

[@uppmil]

Even the video - with all the hard work - is relaxing to watch. Hyvää lyölyä!

[@PetiteFleur1188]

Very nice to see you both guys (kalle & mathias) togehter

[@BeautybyAnneChris]

Jeeee Mathias!!! You really get a great workout everytime you have something ‘home’ delivered 😂

[@jessegreywolf]

lovely to see you and Mathias from talusbuan working together. I love there channel as well

[@AnnaKa1302]

👍👍👍Its so beautifull❤❤❤ Its so nice that Mathias came to help👍👍💪

[@sielunvalo4366]

Hyvät löylyt on spirituaalinen kokemus! Sauna is the best thing I know and you can enjoy this feeling now. Your YT videos are so nice. Greetings from Finland to you.

[@melissapatel7196]

A-frame and sauna you’re really moving up in the world. Joy joy

[@smokeyrock-off-grid]

I am so HAPPY that you finally got your Sauna! I am from Finland and I have seen how heard is it to explain the "Sauna culture" to the foreigners. It was insane that you got the Finnish guy explain the word "Löyly"!!! I couldn't explain it better myself. Right now I am spending the weekend in my off-grid-cabin in North-Savonia Finland (I rent it through Airbnb, too. Most of my visitors are from another countries ). I am just going to Sauna to take some good Löyly. So this video reminds me to appreciate my Sauna lot more. Thank you Kalle and friends!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@LoraStaneva]

Such an exciting project! ✨Congrats on the new sauna, Kalle! 🎉

[@KalleFlodin]

Thank you so much Lora ❤

[@greencontact]

Nice to see proper wood kiuas. Sauna is the best thing from Finland. Enjoy good löyly for years to come. Next summer you should do some vihta. :)

[@cosmicwings7211]

Such a beautiful video! Feeling and watching the friendship between you 3 men...sitting together for meals, cuddling the dogs, working hard for this project..I am so happy for you Kalle that your sauna is ready to go now:-)) thank you Mathias for explaining the spiritual aspect of the sauna. I love also sauna and can't imagine my life without this. Love and appreciation from Bali.

[@rosanarimoldi3842]

When I visited Sweden I enjoyed a sauna for the first time in my life with my swedish boyfriend and it was sooo amazing even mystical experience...so warm in the sauna and very cold snowy winter outside...it is a spiritual perfect and healthy practice...Congratulations for you new sauna Kalle..

[@anitanagahisa3049]

That’s great you already had the building for the sauna. Matthias did a great job helping you put it all together. I know how happy he was to build his own Sauna not too long ago. I love Saunas too, so I know it will make a difference in your life to use it.👏👍❤️

[@johnbreiby9624]

Hei to the three of you! What a nice sauna! Very impressive, and I bet being built of logs lets it get pretty hot, too. I've never seen such a fancy stove for a sauna! Wow, it looks like a piece of artwork. Here we use a simple stove for ours, made of an old 55-gallon oil drum, laid on its side, with a square hole cut in the end for the wood, and a little round hole cut in the side at the other end for the stove pipe. Usually, we can find a drum lying around someplace, or at most buy one for around $20, depending on where you live. To hold the rocks, if you live near a salmon cannery, you can find an old canning rack, which can be cut along the edge so it can be bent in thirds over the curve of the drum stove. I couldn''t find one of these for our current stove, so used some concrete re-inforcing wire bent over the stove. I had to pick the rocks carefully so they don't fall through the holes. We find good rocks off the beach. Volcanic ones with holes in them are the best. So far, I've never had any rocks explode. We call our sauna's meqii--Yup'ik word for steam--or meqiivik, place of steam. Historically, people in SW Alaska used fire baths, where the fire was built up really hot in the mens' house, and people would sit in there and sweat. They even made little things out of shavings to hold in their mouths so they wouldn't burn their lungs. The Russians brought the idea of the steam bath, since they arrived in the early 1800s; or it could have been Scandinavian fishermen, including some Finns, who arrived in the 1880s, but I think it was the Russians, because on Kodiak Island, they still call their steam baths "banya," a Russian word meaning bath. The first meqii I built, I tried to build the floor all nice and level, which meant that the water made puddles on the floor instead of draining (at least I didn't put insulation in the floor!). I also used nails with heads on them for the seat, which meant you burned your butt when sitting down, unless you remembered to cool the seat off with cold water. Later I learned to use finishing nails, with small heads, so they can be set below the surface. We use wings--goose or crane--to hit ourselves with instead of birch branches, but I think it's for the same thing: it concentrates the heat on a sore spot. In Sweden or Finland does it sometimes become a macho contest, to see how hot people can take steams? Maybe that's not Löla ;), so we choose who we steam with. My wife's uncle used to take them really hot. I once took one with him where the temperature got up to 350 F (177 C). Normally we just take them up to around 250 F (121 C) to 280 F

[@johnbreiby9624]

(I hit something wrong) to about 137 C. Uncle had me crawling out the door. I think a big difference between our meqiis and your saunas are that we have a hot room and a cool room to cool off. You can just run outside and jump in the snow or the creek. We're wimpy, so we just sit in the cool room to cool off ;-). Unskyld for å skrive for mye. Alle beste fra Alaska.

[@eliassideways2032]

I'm so happy you actually did the Löyly! I know it's uncommon on Sweden. Next please pronounce it the original way, not Saw-na, but sa-u-na 😂 trust your guests!

[@DNA350ppm]

Looks really pretty and well-done. It is a Finnish sauna system, and it looks very up-graded. Kudos! Mostly we have some fire-resistant plate under the burner (stove), too - did I miss the pic of it? Perhaps it is old-fashioned to have such? Sometime sparks flew out when you opened to fill up more wood, especially if you had spruce to burn.

[@MonVlogs1997]

I wish we could experience those snow in our place

[@retlums]

Den blev verkligen fin.Vore roligt att komma och testa den. Lämnade och fundera på hur ni löste problemet med att få vattnet att rinna bort från golvet. (Hälsningar från Mathias pappa)

[@KalleFlodin]

Hej Kaj! Tack så mycket 😊 Stugan lutar lätt åt ett håll, så vi borrade flera hål i golvet där vi såg att vattnet samlades. Fungerar riktigt bra 😊

[@retlums]

Fint att ni kunde lösa problemet.

[@ionawoodart]

Oh, you've got a great sauna there! Most likely with very hyvät löylyt, since the knowledgable Mathias was so kind as to help you out! Congrats and enjoy!

[@sofiapetsani6737]

Hi Mathias ,Hi Kalle 😊

[@moerks_wood]

You one of the most inspiring KZbinrs I know. Love way you life and that you don't just film, rather document your projects and you are very inspired to me by your other videos.

[@melissacicio4688]

I LOVED this video. It showed the beautiful symphony of ppl like minded creating a blessing. I felt included, for that I thank you.

[@kathrynmoll86]

Love seeing you and Mathias working together for a common goal. Being Finish, Mathias knows something beautiful about the spiritual meaning of Sauna! Can't wait to have it become part of your special life in Sweden.

[@linhagedoorn]

Thank you for this lovely film! The moment you guys took a break, having a drink, hugging the dogs while the fire was going on, I felt like total peace… like you can feel the good vibes you had together🤍

[@Oljen]

i hope you know how much we appreciate your videos mate

[@sivanandaeilat3574]

You have a beautiful sauna. I loved Mathias' explanation of Loyly. It's so good to see you helping each other out and creating community in the wild north.

[@2924sunny]

Congrats! Another fabulous project complete! Now... where can I find myself a Finnish person?!

[@kirsimatikainen6527]

Good job Mathias.

[@yosoypatrick]

You look so happy at the end of this video Kalle!

[@savingsiskola]

I had a similar experience when ordering my new sauna stove. They left the package almost 1 km away on the closest neighbours farm but luckily I managed to get it up on my trailer and through the bad and muddy road up to my homestead.

[@mountainwoodsman8116]

Your sauna floor was likely insulated because the previous owners had planned on using an electric or gas sauna stove. Nice work getting things going, and congratulations on finally getting your sauna working. Peace to you from Alaska.

[@claudes319]

You have amazing friends! Enjoy your new sauna💯

[@KalleFlodin]

They are the best ❤

[@edva3533]

Great video! YT is full of "professional" so it's nice to see normal people working together. I'd like to add fresh air to the points that Matias made regarding how good the Löyly is. Having a flow of fresh air will provide you with oxygen so that the löyly doesn't feel suffocating and you can spend more time in the löyly. Also the stove or kiuas needs a lot of air to burn well without producing harmful gasses. So adding an air inlet would be a huge plus. Otherwise nice work!

[@Talasbuan]

Yes, true. We made big holes for the water to be able to drain, they work as air in as well, but there needs to be an air out somewhere close to the roof as well.

[@donnamyhre5202]

❤The sauna! This video deserves thumbs up. Just shared to Facebook.

[@KalleFlodin]

Thank you so much for sharing it Donna ❤

[@vectrexer]

The sound of the steam! Ah! Satisfying! Evocative! I was fortunate enough to have enjoyed so much wonderful sauna time at the friend's house in Tulsa Oklahoma. Little did I know back then how well his father's sauna was constructed. The sauna being located next to the pool made for some great transitions in the summer, and in the cooler parts of the year. Those childhood sauna memories with friends and family remain some of the best. They also set my personal standard for how a sauna experience must be. For those occasions when I spent time in other saunas. Most of those times in the United States, those sauna experiences were not as wonderful. But some sauna is always better than no sauna.

[@KalleFlodin]

Sounds like very good memories to have 😊

[@Bodbacken]

Sauna! We already learned respectful behavior as children when we went to the sauna. My grandfather made a vihta (= en kvast in swedeish) of birch tree branches, tied it together with a birch branch It's was called to vittas. Vihta was soaked in water on the sauna bench until wonderfully soft. We was beaten on the bare skin with these branches. After that we went swimming in the sea. Absolutely wonderful. In Finland they say that a person is reborn in a sauna! you absolutly needed a finnish gay to do it for you because swedish can't do a sauna properly. I'm sorry for saying that. There are several words related to sauna and sitting in the sauna in Finnish that cannot be translated into English or even Swedish

[@CherieNorquay]

I was an exchange student to Finland in High school. I've been back several times. Even 40 years later I dream of my own sauna. Americans don't understand that saunas are NOT dry. Thanks for the great video!!!! Kiitos saunasta!

[@miamolin]

Sauna is so nice have. We all Finnish love sauna and the "LÖYLY".

[@DNA350ppm]

And you got it totally, Cherie - we say thank you for the sauna, not casually.

[@DNA350ppm]

@@anneofgreengables1619 We admit that sauna-culture is a tiny bit of Europe. Potlatch is a bigger bit of the American, but I guess not many Europeans even ever heard about it. Let's keep an open mind and learn ever more. We get more connected today, thanks to people-to-people communication with all the possibilities on-line, don't you think!? There are so many things that I would love the world to know about my native Finland and my second home-country Sweden - and my beloved Norden, there is also SISU in Finland, LAGOM in Sweden, HYGGE in Denmark, GÅ PÅ TUR in Norway, and all kinds of MAGIC in Iceland. To everybody - welcome to experience the open spirit in Norden!

[@DNA350ppm]

@@anneofgreengables1619 So true.

[@KarenPFolk-qq7dx]

I loved watching you create your sauna and especially loved hearing the spiritual Finnish description of “steam”, chi or energy (?).

[@sirjepool2651]

Enjoyed very much the video with so great sauna and friendship vibe! Have a good löyly! 😊

[@lallajohanna]

Alltid så himla fantastiskt att se er tillsammans i videor. Hoppas ni kommer bygga mer med varandras hjälp 🙌💥💯

[@KalleFlodin]

Tack snälla 🥰 ja det blir absolut mer projekt tillsammans!

[@annettec8555]

So glad to see Mat help you. Nice to have good friends and community in these days. I grew up with Finnish saunas here in PNW because my grand parents came from northern Sweden. I remember the sauna was so hot I needed a cold wet wash cloth to breath through. Enjoy!!!

[@annevalimaki3966]

Congratulations on your new Sauna. Wishing you good löyly for years to come! Also nice to see good friends working together.

[@FeCadacio]

I'm also an avid subscriber of Talasbuan nice to see Mathias with you

[@jaqstitch]

Here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (USA) we love a good sauna! Thanks for the video

[@mariaedvardsson8554]

Thank you for an inspiring sauna-video! 😊

[@lindasimson7790]

This is a wonderful channel, lovely couple, all the best for your future, lots of love from Scotland ❤xxx

[@mahalia5594]

I really enjoyed this vlog, Matthias’ attention to detail is always a joy to see, I am glad he helped with the sauna. As an African (resident in the USA), I really have a love for how much meaning he puts in his work.

[@DNA350ppm]

Maybe it is easier to grasp the specialness of the phenomen "löyly", when you think about that ordinary 'steam' is just "höyry" in Finnish. They are absolutely not synonymous and cannot subsitute for each other - as little as you can call a bluebell a dandelion. You will have spiritual, cleansing, and purifying experience from every löyly, Kalle, thinking of friendship, too, as Mattias came to support you. Old mistakes out, and a space for new and cleaner ideas, in - body and soul! Thank you for sharing. Den gamla bastun drar en lättnadens suck och glädjer sig i sitt timmerhjärta! Önskar er många sköna stunder!

[@trite76]

Caught the tale end of your livestream kalle I've missed your KZbin content so glad im watching this and a collab with another KZbin channel much love ❤️ from the UK 🇬🇧

[@KalleFlodin]

Thank you for joining the stream 🥰❤

[@Mokkel73]

Kalle & Mathias: I REALLY enjoyed the part about the finnish word. I would love to have more content about the nordic heritage that is slipping away as time goes by, unless we keep it alive.

[@somethingfromk6816]

Good that you got a Finn to help you with getting a real sauna!

[@Ama-nk6gm]

Hi Mathias thank you for introduces the new friend farm i love it !!!!!!be safe blessings to both we love you

[@KalleFlodin]

Happy to you found your way here 🥰

[@monikacarless_wordwitch]

The best person ever to help with this, Mathias! Congratulations on your sauna, and the loyly!

[@onehearthlove]

So nice to see the three of you building this together, thank you for a wonderful video! 🤍🌲

[@jyrianttila4394]

Löyly used to mean soul in Finnish language, like every living thing has a soul so does sauna. One important aspect of owning a sauna is to respect the spirit inhabiting it, so every time you've finished bathing you need to put a couple logs in the kiuas (stove) to please the spirit of the sauna and keep the sauna healthy and working.

[@eva-lisamartinsson4473]

I love when two of my favourite vloggers come up in the same video❤️. Thanks for sharing your life and for doing so in such a wonderful way. I will be keep on watching and love and hugs to your girlfriends and your son Mattias ❤️😍

[@upnorthandpersonal]

Hyvää työtä!

[@jennyfulcher8035]

Hi Kalle: What a beautiful sauna you, Mathias and Fabian built. I enjoyed learning about the spiritual nature of "Loyly" of Finnish saunas. I never knew about that. In America, Plains Indians have sweat lodges that are also deeply spiritual. Enjoy your cozy, warm sauna in the wintry forest of Northern Sweden. Jenny USA

[@AliKhan-cj3ee]

almost fell asleep listening to his mates voice, so relaxing

[@willowtreedb]

Almost dreamlike. So wonderful!

[@Daan_Spieard]

That sauna looks sooo nice! Enjoy!

[@sherriepiechowski4556]

Awesome! Our friends have a small wash tub they carry into their sauna with water and when it warms up they clean up and wash their hair in there and then go jump in the snow or the lake. Nice job! This will be one of those simple pleasures in life.

[@puuma_69]

good video and glad to see talasbuan being here

[@gaosaman]

oohh this makes me so happy and very nostalgic as a Finnish person, so moi from Finland! My dad build his very own smoke sauna near our summer cottage and it feels so different when it comes to a regular sauna. He even made the foundation of the sauna on his own until it was time to build the structure. Growing up it has this special feel to it and I'm pretty sure you will have it too. After all, sauna is meant to purify you physically and mentally. I just can't wait for summer time for those long nights enjoying the smoke sauna and let everything just float away ❤

[@HolyPineCone]

I have used a smoke sauna only once. It was something else, indeed.

[@sandrasiljeholm1648]

Roligt å se bygget👏👏🤩

[@catherinejenni]

Great precious work in community! You did so well guys, my compliments to all of you🔥👏👌😊 Now enjoy strengthening and spiritual moments in your great sauna😇😌😊 Good Löyly!

[@relaxsounds4428]

It's nice to see someone who has succeeded and is living the life they want.😄

[@MDobri-sy1ce]

I enjoy his channel as well.

[@jenniferdaniel6952]

Absolutely beautiful video 🙏 can’t wait till the day we build ours

[@johnbourke7467]

man that looks so inviting a job well done guy