Heating the chimneyless sauna in Tarvaspää
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
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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.