Heating the chimneyless sauna in Tarvaspää

Do you want to know how the chimneyless sauna is heated?
In this video, we tell you about the history of the chimneyless sauna in Gallen-Kallela Museum premises, Tarvaspää. The chimneyless sauna, smoke sauna, is a part of Akseli Gallen-Kallela Museum Foundation properties, therefore the heating of the sauna and bathing too is a part of museum work here.
The heating of the sauna was documented during first snowfall in 2023 with the support os The Finnish Sauna Association.
Stages of heating the sauna:
Preparing: choppoing firewood, fillinf water vessels, hosing inside walls and benches and opening smoke hatch in the back wall.
Beginning of heating, about 6-7 hours until bathing
Maintaining the fire, about 2-3 hours period
Fading the fire, about 2 hours to bathing. Throwing water to heater stones to expell carbon monoxide and soot. Rinsing and airing the sauna. Closing the smoke hatch.
Enjoying the sauna, about 3-4 hours of bathing time.