Build A Wood Burning Sauna Stove

The stove is the heart of your sauna and the only thing keeping it from being a storage room.

Build a wood burning sauna stove.

What i learned from building an outdoor sauna with a wood burning stove. So if you are looking to build your own wood burning hot tub this is a nice tutorial for you. And its pronounced souna not sa. They offer pictures materials list and tools.

While electric saunas are convenient nothing beats the ambience and rolling heat of a wood burning sauna stove. This is my first instructable but i have used so many for ideas and love the community input. Cedar planks have a beautiful look a pleasant smell and remain cool enough to sit on comfortably. Harvia legend 150 wood burning sauna heater the harvia legend is a very nice stove complementing the sauna experience with its nature look and cast iron door with a glass viewing window.

Most sauna purists will say wood burning is the way to go. Plan the whole space not just the sauna footprint. Saunas can reach temperatures of 150 degrees or more. For me it was all about the kind of vibe i wanted in the sauna mond says.

Christensen scored an old barrel wood burning stove from a local. The best wood burning sauna stoves burn clean sometime requiring just a fraction of the fuel wood as cheap alternatives. The most popular choices are cedar saunas. I live in downstate michigan and went to college in the up met a whole crew of finlanders and was introduced to the sauna.

And given his building skill and meticulous attention to detail we thought it a good idea to bring russ back to share. Again i realize this isn t a sauna design but they do often go hand in hand. Mond bought a woodstove on craigslist. When you build a sauna you need a softwood that is flexible and not easily damaged by moisture or warped by heat.

Wood burning sauna diy. Building your own diy wood burning hot tub is not an easy task.