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Dave H (MI)

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I have had requests periodically for pictures of it. Most recently today and it just happened to come as I was leaving to go out there so easy to remember to do it. This is the original milk house from the old barn. I don't obviously have a digital picture of it before it was converted to the sauna. It is 12-14' square. Original door was where the glass block window is now. This building was partly destroyed when the barn came down and has been rebuilt. I did not rebuild it, or install the sauna. Done by a prior owner, professionally installed. Remnants of the old barn walls can be seen. The silo foundation is just in front of the red entry door. I'll try to get all the pics up. Might duplicate some of them but I will do my best.
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Very nice--have you fired it up yet? Been wondering about that since you posted about it quite a while back. Haven't ran mine in a while either, but winter's my favorite time for it and one of these days I'll light it up.
 
Several times. Takes a couple hours to fully heat. Once up to speed it cooks. In the winter you get a real heavy fog of steam. Summer saunas are not so steamy...just real hot.
 
Being half Finnish, I grew up with saunas. There is hardly any way to get more clean or more relaxed. I love them. Yours looks real nice, especially with that water tank...
 
Dave please tell me how you make 12x14 foot square. We had a sauna on the first farm that we bought being 100%scandinavian we used it a lot in the winter I have always wanted to build an other on this place. You have a very nice sauna. Randy
 
I never have enough of either! LOL!

I should of mentioned for those who might want to drop by. If the idea of Randy doing elipticals in his undies gives you pause, you probably don't want to walk into my sauna unannounced when the chimney is smoking! :)
 
It is nice. It works by convection. The two pipes go into the hot rocks and the water gets heated and comes out the top pipe taking cooler water in the bottom. Gets hot enough to scald you in about two hours. Toss it on the rocks and you are good to go. Gets REAL hot after that. I keep a piece of wood floating in it so the mice can get out when they fall in. You don't want dead mice in the bottom where you cannot see them. Makes a heckuva stink when you throw mouse water on the rocks. Nothing keeps them out of the water, they get thirsty I guess and fall in.
 
I looked, but I do not have a picture of the pool. The fella spent all his money on the sauna I guess 'cause the pool is a 15' above ground deal with a rickety deck attached. I got the thing going last summer and we never had more fun in a pool in our lives! Only holds two at a time comfortably but the girls would use it when I was working and I could hear them carrying on all the way back in the barn. Pretty funny to hear the two of them, both in their 20's, splashing around and giggling like kids. I don't know how I would have made it thru that hot summer last year without that silly little pool. :)
 
Didn't they ever tell you in school what it means when you "assume"?

Reminds me of a talk I had with the new hunting tenants on the farm. How exactly did I put that? Note the quotes. "I don't mean to be rude, but just because a door is open doesn't mean it is an invitation to enter".
 
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