The Stove

A great deal of planning went into the purchase of the wood stove. We knew we wanted to have a wood burning sauna rather than an electric stove, and that from prior experience we didn't want to feed the stove from within the sauna room itself. Although the Harvia (Finnish) stove we have in another sauna is wonderful, starts right up and heats an 8' x 8' sauna with no problem, it is dirty. Well, for us it is because you have to carry your firewood into the sauna room. I always have extra wood and it hangs around on the floor and makes a mess.

The stove needed to be designed to be fed from outside the sauna room and be large enough to heat the size room we had in mind. We toyed with the idea of feeding the stove right through the log wall of the sauna building, but finally decided to feed the stove from the dressing room. This would provide a moderate amount of heat to the dressing room in the winter. In the summer we will just keep the windows and door open if it gets to warm in there.

The stove we found and bought was from: Kuuma Sauna Stoves. I like the fact that it is massive! No kidding we had to have the delivery truck use its lift gate get it into the back of the pickup, then we used the gin pole to hoist the stove from the pickup onto the sauna deck. There was no putting the stove in the building after it was built. We had to build the sauna around the stove!

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