Heating and visiting in a wooden smoke sauna

[@JarmoHiltunen]

The book "Building a Traditional Finnish Smoke Sauna" is now available on Amazon. If you have any questions, feel free to ask here. Thank you very much!

[@MrScoox]

What a beautiful short movie. Just got logs delivered for my own smoke sauna or as we call it dūminė pirtis. Can wait for a spring to come and start building. Greetings from Lithuania.

[@JarmoHiltunen]

Thanks! People living outside Northern Europe doesn't have a clue what kind of black gem we are possessing.

[@MrScoox]

@@JarmoHiltunen I've just got your book on smoke sauna. I already see nice tips on how to make an arch in the stove. My plane is to make it more advanced by adopting rocket batch box, so burning is more efficient.

[@JarmoHiltunen]

@@MrScoox I hope you'll find useful information from the book. Unfortunately I'm not that familiar with the "rocket batch box", but it surely sounds exotic! Just don't add any metal between the combustion chamber and the upper stone chamber. No metal should be contacted with the water when creating the Löyly (ie. steam).

[@MrScoox]

@@JarmoHiltunen for this exact reason, I like the design proposal in your book to use just a firebrick for forming an arch. If you like, I can send you pictures of the progress with a stove as soon as I have something to share.

[@JarmoHiltunen]

@@MrScoox Sure thing, you'll find me on Instagram: instagram.com/traditional_loghouse/

[@raunovittaniemi4905]

Kyllä oli mahtava video ....kiitos sulle .....annat suomele hyvää mainosta........✌️✌️✌️🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮❤️❤️❤️

[@vickis.9363]

I especially enjoyed seeing the löyly rising from your back at 4:30. It's like we could see your beautiful henki. Kiitos paljon!

[@a_yanki]

What a great video! Thank you for making it, I am happy to show my American friends who do not know about savusauna

[@hareramanama]

Как же приятен финский акцент в английском. Спокойно от него. Банька шикарная, в живописном месте.

[@skunksarefake5754]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@Simonen87]

Elder sauna makers in Karelia, Finland says, that traditional smoke saunas stove doesnt include any cement,metal or bricks, just shore rocks build up layers after layers. usually rich dark colour stones are best for smoke sauna.

[@adammccammant938]

Great video, thanks for sharing:) Are you still planning on releasing a smoke sauna construction book in english?

[@JarmoHiltunen]

Thank you for the question and support! During the recent months I have been writing a book, or manual, which is for the DIY-people who want to learn to build a smoke sauna. But it will take a while before it will be ready. I want to make a useful and practical book and this sure takes time!

[@ttgarage3536]

This is great video, thanks!

[@dustinberg1134]

Interesting g, but so long to wait, I'll keep my sauna that I converted from a wood stove and attached a oil burner to it. Takes 30m to heat a 6x12 cedar room outside and I have therocks on top with essentials oils, fantastic. Enjoy

[@panananeu4394]

Interesting. I was once in sauna near Helsinki. You do really high rooms for the sauna itself thus the long heating time and I guess you don't get more than 60 degrees, most likely lower than 60? In my grand-dads sauna the ceiling was max 1,80m and the door was like 1,6m height. I still remember this little building but I never tried it. It was also used to smoke meat. My dad demolished it some years ago and built the modern sauna with a chimney.

[@JarmoHiltunen]

Smoke saunas are of all types and sizes. In general, the internal temperatures are lower than in ordinary saunas. But you can get really hot steam from the stove if you want. Too bad you didn't get to try your grandfather's sauna, but I hope the new sauna is good too!

[@panananeu4394]

@@JarmoHiltunen What I mean is that I saw so high room smoke saunas (both in real life and on internet) only in Finland. Here in Lithuania I saw a lot of them (most of them are abandoned and collapsing from age) and the sauna room is max 1,80-1,90 height. Last time I was in smoke sauna like 3 years ago but it wasn't old, I'd say built in 50's and it was pretty high, at least 2m. So the owner told that he has to heat it for 4 hours minimum even in summer while with these small ones 2-3 hours is enough.

[@JarmoHiltunen]

@@panananeu4394 Interesting! The old saunas here in Finland were usually higher than that, but in the northern country, for example, they were lower. I think a higher sauna has the advantage that it forms a special "heat pocket" if there is enough space and when water is thrown onto the hot stones in the stove.

[@rolfnilsen6385]

What is the white "hat" in the sauna for? Isn't the smell of the smoke quite harsh?

[@JarmoHiltunen]

To be honest, the hat happened to be there when this was filmed. Usually in a smoke sauna you don't need a hat.

[@rolfnilsen6385]

@@JarmoHiltunen I have some experience with saunas as I am norwegian (even if the sauna is on its way out of the culture here). But I never heard about using hats in the sauna before 🙂 I am going to make a sauna! With a cold bath on the outside, and a shower with warm water. Cutting the logs for it this spring.

[@JarmoHiltunen]

@@rolfnilsen6385 Some of the most impressive log buildings in the world are in Norway and I believe there's still space for one more sauna. Just go for it!

[@rolfnilsen6385]

@@JarmoHiltunen Of course I will go for it 🙂I have made up my mind so the next step is to fell the required trees and start. I was thinking about the culture around saunas, and knowing how to use a sauna properly, are dying out here next to the ocean. Only the old guys are doing it. I'll do my part to stop that development.

[@vickis.9363]

@@rolfnilsen6385 Did you get your sauna built?

[@The犬]

Very interesting! But there is no smoke sauna in japan :(

[@JarmoHiltunen]

I read an article where mr. Katsuki Tanaka was visiting a smoke sauna in Finland. Accorind to this article, there is just one real smoke sauna in Japan, somewhere in Hokkaido! Unfortunately this is all I know about this. Maybe you can find it?

[@The犬]

@@JarmoHiltunen Thank you!

[@majkakowalska8699]

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[@rainelusua6129]

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