Arto's Blog - Latest Comments on Ice sauna and snow meeting https://ajt.iki.fi/blog/main/?disp=comments en-EU http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 ajt in response to: Ice sauna and snow meeting Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:21:10 +0000 c424@https://ajt.iki.fi/blog/ <p>Hi Szalai,</p> <p>Yes, of course ice starts to melt if it really gets hot inside. However, most of the heat goes up and the roof was made out of wood. You can let most of the hot air out during heating and just focus on getting the stones hot. The way to make it feel like a sauna is to throw a lot of water on the hot stones, which gives a relatively short lasting heat wave. The walls can be made thick so a little bit of melting on the surface doesn&#8217;t really hurt.</p> <p>One thing to note is that snow and ice on the ground right under the stove does melt. Unless you dig it away in advance you&#8217;ll have to be careful that the stove stays in upright position during heating. At Torvinen, after a few hours of heating the stove was about 30 cm lower compared to when we started.</p> Hi Szalai,

Yes, of course ice starts to melt if it really gets hot inside. However, most of the heat goes up and the roof was made out of wood. You can let most of the hot air out during heating and just focus on getting the stones hot. The way to make it feel like a sauna is to throw a lot of water on the hot stones, which gives a relatively short lasting heat wave. The walls can be made thick so a little bit of melting on the surface doesn’t really hurt.

One thing to note is that snow and ice on the ground right under the stove does melt. Unless you dig it away in advance you’ll have to be careful that the stove stays in upright position during heating. At Torvinen, after a few hours of heating the stove was about 30 cm lower compared to when we started.

]]> https://ajt.iki.fi/blog/main/2008/03/25/ice_sauna#c424 Szalai Gabor in response to: Ice sauna and snow meeting Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:51:38 +0000 Szalai Gabor c423@https://ajt.iki.fi/blog/ Wo. It was very interesting. But how can a sauna work when the walls are made from ice? Doesn&#8217;t it melt away if it really gets hot inside? I&#8217;d like to live things like this through. To build an ice sauna, or to sleep outside in -30 °C without getting frozen =) https://ajt.iki.fi/blog/main/2008/03/25/ice_sauna#c423 Konstantin Shemyak in response to: Ice sauna and snow meeting Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:15:26 +0000 Konstantin Shemyak c422@https://ajt.iki.fi/blog/ Fantastic! That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m missing in Helsinki! Poor southern people arriving to public events in Finland are shuddering and complaining, &#8220;Next time could we please select a place which does not have snow&#8221; - while I <strong>want the real snow</strong>, not the city slush, and complain that we don&#8217;t have it here any more! Envious of your frosty events, thinking about relocating to Sodankylä&#8230; want the real snow, not the city slush, and complain that we don’t have it here any more! Envious of your frosty events, thinking about relocating to Sodankylä…]]> https://ajt.iki.fi/blog/main/2008/03/25/ice_sauna#c422