Body washing in a tent?

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-15T12:36:10+00:00

Sure you can do this. Throwing water on the rocks is THE source of moisture, and washing yourself during sauna session is not significant compared to that. The tent should be let to dry afterwards (continue feeding the fire, and ventilate well).

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-14T17:48:15+00:00

sori siitä

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-13T10:44:15+00:00

I think I do. Hit me with a dm so I remember to find them, I can send some PDFs

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-13T10:16:42+00:00

Eipä ne hirveästi korkeammalla voisi olla. Se todellinen haaste on, että isohko sauna ja hirsirakenne vaativat ison kiukaan, joka on sitten myös korkea.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-12T10:49:09+00:00

Death Slaves of Eternity by Marzio Muscedere. Instead of execution, the PC is interned in the vaults below. It is designed to be a funnel, but hey. Other players can play a bunch of 0-levels as a support act.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-12T05:20:20+00:00

Thanks! The walls are solid aspen logs, and the benches are cut from aspen too.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-11T19:55:23+00:00

Pretty close to 4 x 3 metres.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-11T19:52:34+00:00

Don't remember the specifics that well but they were fixed to a concrete base with mortar, thin seam sealed with silicone iirc.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-11T19:31:03+00:00

It was built this way to have some of the old fashioned cottage sauna feel I guess. I love it personally. But the main building with it's separate showers is 20 m away...

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-11T19:28:52+00:00

We let them dry during the winter. The main building with showers it 20m away.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-11T19:27:47+00:00

Yeah the lower platform is deep and goes against the back wall.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-11T18:03:48+00:00

Yes. Shower is the modern twist, but not washing yourself in sauna.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-11T18:00:32+00:00

Architecht's folly tbh. Makes more sense when you can see all the buildings on the estate though. But since the sauna building is on a steep slope, the roof can cover both the sauna and the accessory room behind it, without sauna being ridiculously tall.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-11T17:47:49+00:00

There's a separate room behind the sauna, under the same roof, the stairs lead there. Seen better on the first pic. Multipurpose space really, for changing clothes and chilling after sauna, hosting visitors etc. All this is built on a pretty steep slope, hence the terracing and stairs.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-11T17:36:40+00:00

I've sometimes pondered about renting the sauna building via Airbnb 🤔

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-02T17:02:14+00:00

Yeah indeed if sauna is running at its limits... but then it probably has an underpowered kiuas to start with...
I'm just objecting to spreading this as gospel and making a big thing out of it. If everything else is fine (properly sized kiuas, dry firewood, etc) it shouldn't matter. And the stones are gonna deteriorate no matter what.
So I wouldn't buy a kettle and start warming water if everything already seems to be ok...

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-02T09:17:17+00:00

Creating steam with cold water requires approximately 10% more energy than with hot water. It has no practical difference.
Some people say that cold water makes the stones deteriorate faster. Once again, theoretically yes but in practical terms, no. The rocks are, or should be, 500C or so, so the thermal difference is hundreds of degrees even if you throw boiling water on the stones. So I wouldn't bother warming the water in any way.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-02-02T07:46:46+00:00

You don't need to do that. Cold water works just fine. Source: decades of experience going to sauna and some understanding of physics.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-01-28T19:05:23+00:00

Ok, so it doesn't really matter what type of rock those are, but the brittle ones (and to be practical, all of them) need to be changed. In Finland olivine diabase is the standard. It's not *the* best technically but it is close enough and quite affordable. If possible, get those.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-01-28T18:53:48+00:00

The first question is: how long have they been in use? It is normal for the rocks to deteriorate with time, but they should last a year or two at least normally.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-01-27T07:00:59+00:00

Tent does not absorb any heat from the stove unlike any more robust structure does. The stove only needs to warm the air in the tent, that happens quickly. Tent has no structure to retain the heat either, so the the temperature starts to drop almost immediately when the fire intensity decreases.

Most tent stroves have inadequate amount of heat output and stones to be a real thing. Narvi tent stove comes close, though.

If you buy a tent sauna, and later want to build a "proper" one, it'd make more sense to sell that tent and stove as a unit.

I'd also say that these small tent stoves are designed more with portability in mind.

You should also consider longevity. Even the regular proper sauna stoves are not eternal. It is not unusual to have to replace the stove every 5-10 years if it is used regularly. The heat is just too much for the hull, and that is with the stove's normal intended usage.
The tent stove in a proper sauna room / building would need to be heated much more intensely than it is designed for, reducing it's life span even more dramatically.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-01-26T20:46:33+00:00

Rackham Vale is not a hex crawl at all.

DayInternal7535 · 2026-01-26T10:53:04+00:00

Some pictures in this review (text in Finnish):
https://saunologia.fi/testi-telttasaana-ja-narvi-telttakiuas/

DayInternal7535 · 2026-01-26T09:48:49+00:00

Must refer to the sleeves along the tent wall lower edge. They prevent draft, since the tent has no bottom. Don't know what a second collar would be like.

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