Build A Wood Burning Sauna Stove

What i learned from building an outdoor sauna with a wood burning stove.

Build a wood burning sauna stove.

Wood burning sauna diy. Cedar planks have a beautiful look a pleasant smell and remain cool enough to sit on comfortably. Plan the whole space not just the sauna footprint. You need to be very skilled in the carpentry department.

The stove is the heart of your sauna and the only thing keeping it from being a storage room. They offer pictures materials list and tools. This is my first instructable but i have used so many for ideas and love the community input. The stones held by a black frame system cover the entire surface area of the stove up and down and all around except for the door creating a beautiful.

So if you are looking to build your own wood burning hot tub this is a nice tutorial for you. 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. 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.

Again i realize this isn t a sauna design but they do often go hand in hand. When you build a sauna you need a softwood that is flexible and not easily damaged by moisture or warped by heat. Mond bought a woodstove on craigslist. Saunas can reach temperatures of 150 degrees or more.

I live in downstate michigan and went to college in the up met a whole crew of finlanders and was introduced to the sauna. Building your own diy wood burning hot tub is not an easy task. Most sauna purists will say wood burning is the way to go. While electric saunas are convenient nothing beats the ambience and rolling heat of a wood burning sauna stove.

Christensen scored an old barrel wood burning stove from a local. For me it was all about the kind of vibe i wanted in the sauna mond says.