Wood Burning Sauna Stove Diy

The second chamber features a small opening door.

Wood burning sauna stove diy.

Stack fire wood outside the sauna artistically and preferably in the shape of fish ships or other nautical phenomenon. Since sauna stoves are so expensive and really i want a wood burning one anyway i decided to build one my se. Also you must have sufficient space to fill in cement on the first chamber and also the fiberglass so that heat easily gets transferred from inside to outside. Burn oak maple and ash if you can in the sauna stove.

Again i realize this isn t a sauna design but they do often go hand in hand. It is much easier to prepare the opening in advance. I ve set out to build a small sauna for my self. For outside feed mikka sauna is placed tight to brick opening.

I live in downstate michigan and went to college in the up met a whole crew of finlanders and was introduced to the sauna. This is preferred to a long neck wood burner where you are expected to brick around the neck. For a cool and effective diy wood burning heater you need to fix insulated burn tube in the first chamber. Some say ashes are good fertilizer for trees but they also concentrate heavy minerals.

Opening should be approx. 14 wide by 19 high. This is my first instructable but i have used so many for ideas and love the community input. You need to be very skilled in the carpentry department.

Dispose of ashes responsibly. The diy wood burning hot tub building your own diy wood burning hot tub is not an easy task.