Agreed. Not sure how someone who is Russian and claims to have been doing this their whole life could miss that. Especially 1 who calls himself "Mr. Build it". You would think he understands the very important need for proper ventilation and drainage so that the structure does not rot from the moisture. Not to mention the upper level bench is way to high. Nobody wants to set like that in a sauna.

@@Delabeled By your logic, since you have been driving for a long time, you could design a car without missing anything.

Came here for the frustrated finn-comment and was not disappointed. Ventilation is important also for getting enough air when you are in the sauna. Put four people in that sauna and they will be gasping for air in 15 minutes.

@@jehmed in that sauna 2 people and 5min is enough to make you pass out.

@@TheApina21 what's more you can't lie down because the benches are so narrow.

Not to mention that our saunaculture comes from smokesaunas where the draft was must..

Same in Belarus and tbh better part of Slavic countries. I remember helping my grandfather build a sauna as a little kid and it's literally stacked log with moss stuffed for isolation with a basic roof. Heating done with a wooden stove that aspirates from the outside and gives smoke out too.

As Estonian i have grandparents who's sauna is made of logs and floor made ceramic with window and it's one best saunas we home have everything that men did but ceramic floor drain and went with wooden Fireplace and only pain in the ass is cleaning bc 🛋️ where you sit is In one piece.

@@dragm2123 thats luxury, old finnish saunas have the foundation concrete as floor.. and there is hole that goes into trench. and some of us use these polyetheline or canvas (mini towel) ass covers

@@AndreiKucharavy do you guys have smoke saunas, where the smoke stays inside? and its soot is cleaned before usage.

Correct on every point.

What plastic? Insulation? What other option there would be to make it more eco friendly? I want to build a sauna but very ecofriendly wat

mr smarty pants

@@ehysdfafsdf5257 you don’t know the half of it

All you have to do is leave the door open after your done with the sauna

Ei tolla oo ees kiulua. Tuskin heittää kiukaalle ikinä vettä ni mihin tarvis viemäriä.

@@Nuulo kyllähän se jo ihan vaan pesuakin varten vaikka mökiltä tuttu rakoviemäri olis kätevä olla kun on muutenkin jo huolella vedetty.

very true

I thought the same, he put paper to isolate the walls and flor

@@LUIZGUSTAVO-wv6tm this will cause you some mold problems quite soon. Simple gutter drain would be enough to take the waters out here.

Also throw water onto the stove. Makes the experience way more enjoyable

I was wondering why he didn’t use a fire stove. They’re superior. I’m Ukrainian, we like our saunas around 195-210F, electric stoves constantly trip when getting to that temp.

@@vitaliyburlaka691 Nah my almost 15 year old electric sauna easily goes to 100 celsius or 212 Fahrenheit no problems whatsoever

I think that wood stove would be dangerous in that sauna because it doesn't have any ventilation. Wood stoves burns all oxygen out off the room. The wall structures are also made too tight if water is thrown in the sauna. The wall structure built in this way does not ventilate and moisture remains inside the structure, which causes the building materials to mold and rot.

@@Denofu what brand is your stove? And what country do you live in? I’m in the states and seems like every electric stove here trips the breakers.

Too hot to handle?

@ES as a Finn, I see so many issues with this sauna design. Real sauna should be very humid, you need draining for the sauna stove (you are supposed to throw water on proper sauna stoves), and the sauna should be well ventilated. Best saunas are the old ones, where you can see the light of nightless night underneath the walls, you heat them with wood and get the good steam heat going with water.

Uh2uu

@@emofems all of the saunas ive experienced in the USA have been dry saunas with no humidity and directions to not pour water on them. However next to most saunas here there is a steam room. Just like a sauna but very humid and directed to pour water on the heater. Just my experience Edit: Apparently after reading through the other comments i found that a lot of people agree with you about humidity and moisture. Thinking about it more, the moisture in the wood does have to go somewhere when it dries out.

@@BMVLifestyle If you know something about saunas, you know that they are a Finnish thing, so I do know this stuff 😊. Sauna should be humid, the ventilation should be good, and the heat around 80-100 Celsius, which you top up with throwing water over the sauna stove. Dry saunas are something you'd never see here, and I do understand why they come with a large set of health warnings. Also steam rooms around here are very few, and usually only in bigger spas as a curiosity 😊. They even aren't that hot.

It’s Idaho.

Here in Texas my garage is a sauna. Unfortunately thats where i do all of my home projects 😪

Could have used an old gas tank and put it in the sun

🤣🤣🤣

I live in Miami and have a sauna in my garage lol. I'm Russian though so it's necessary to maintain lifestyle.

Don't use

lol nobody should wear a watch to sauna! sauna is relax mode!

@@kentabenno I wear it to time myself. But I guess now I’ll just buy an egg timer

@@davidcardinal3654 just put an alarm on your phone and put it outside of the steam room

Lol

isn't pressure treaded not allowed to use inside, its toxic ?

@@gr4297 its used on a lot of homes for the mudsill but it makes sense why he used it in this project sense he has no drainage but I would have went with redwood since its for outdoors as well I don't think it releases a toxic fume or anything but defiantly toxic to burn and the dust is toxic if you where to sand it

Also there's no ventilation. Without proper ventilation there's not enough oxygen coming into sauna. And that causes horrible sauna experience because you can't get fresh air while you are in the heat. Secondly, poor ventilation causes sauna to stay humid after the sauna session, which leads to a mold growth. With these points combined with yours, my prediction is that the sauna in the video is gonna face serious mold problems in the near future.

On top of Wolf's and Sebastian's comments, you might want to consider running water to the Sauna, even if it is not all that important for the sauna to function. Traditionally in Finland we have either a bunch of water ready to use in barrels, or alternatively running water - this is for washing yourself, cleaning the sauna and for fire safety. In this small space having barrels of water might be not ideal, unless you want to keep them outside. Hence a tap or just a simple water line from the main house could improve the comfort massively.

​ @TheCharcharro Well, there was no drain on the floor and whole structure was designed to be just heated room. But yeah more ventilation would be needed for sure. Ideally "cold" air would be dropped on top of heater from the hole on the wall, so that toes don't feel cold when they are lower than heater itself and it makes better air quality when throwing water on the heater. Exit would be on the opposite side of room, in ceiling to make it circulate the whole room for better heat distribution. But those things can be added even afterwards. Nice outdoor shower and hot tub would make this setup perfect for relaxing evening or little party with friends.

You seem like much more of an expert than me, but is that a heater to add water to?

@@noahvogt That seems to be Finnish heater and that´s why it should be full of stones so you can throw water on it. Throwing water on the heater is the thing in sauna, not just sitting in hot room.

Great advice from the sauna masters. If anyone knows how to build a sauna it's a Finn, kiitos

@@markbaker4337 and i made a mistake, you dont need 10" hole.. 10cm, so 4" for ventilation. 5cm (2in) under the door is enough. I was probably drunk when i wrote that..

@@novoiperkele hahaha that's ok as long as you finish off with some Minttu

@@markbaker4337 Only elderberries drink that minttu shit. KOSSUA PERKELE!

@novoiperkele I came back to this video specifically for this comment. I'm making a sauna. A pronounced-correctly sauna. At least, that's my hope. Wood-fired, Kuuma stove, as legit as I can on my budget. Anyway, I am most intrigued by the gap between the wall panel and the aluminum. This is not something I have heard from the guys at saunatimes.com, but it makes sense. What do you do, put some furring strips on top of the studs after the aluminum is on?

it's a fucking shit sauna

you clearly dont know how sauna should be built

I complimented an outlook, not function. And engaging video production. I did read other comments about ventulation before doing it.

Magnet works too. Similar to a screen door with a magnet

such a electric sheep you are, go with wood or dont use sauna at all is most important lessons

@@LazlaTheFallen But Harvia makes heaters which are used with wood. Either you go Aito kiuas, or you go with Harvia.

@@Sinr0ne well then its ok, and one solution is "towns blacksmith" made also. There is chace that old saunas i were remembering also corp made and the brands just gone by now but i dont really recall seeing any marks on those. But aint Hela older than Aito tho?

Harvia👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

And drainage ?

Yeah. And i´m a little skeptical how floor structure will hold on with very moist conditions saunas often have.

And foil layer will act as a vapor barrier so there's no need to put second vapor barrier layer between the insulation and the foil. In fact that will cause problems if any of those layers will have any leakage. With any leakage, moisture will condensate between the layers and cause mold problems.

@@sebastianvilen4084 And what i have seen done is the ''painted'' on vapor barrier is actually little bit extended to the wall. If it is done like in video water will go between floor and wall and it's game over.

eei nuo jenkit heitä kiukaalle vettä kun luulee että menee rikki... ihan tosissaan siis sanon ja tämä on jenkeillä ihan yleinen harhakäsitys😂 jos menee rikki niin paska on kiuas

Good call out. DIY is great but a lot of times the knowledge is lacking.

2) What you said about placing is wrong. Intake should be right next to stove but exhaust needs to be almost at ceiling if on wall or it can also be on ceiling furthest distance from stove. So that's way warmer air leaves from exhaust it draws colder fresh air right next to stove where it warms up and spreads oxygen rich air all over sauna room. That vent placing which you described only works if exhaust vent is equipped with electric fan otherwise it doesn't work because height difference is so small it doesn't create so called chimney effect.

@@mr.wizeguy8995 It's totally wrong to place the exhaust at the ceiling, it will suck out all the fresh hot air. Once hot air gets "dirty" from all the sweat, it falls down, for that reason the exhaust should be at the bottom. Of course you will need to create an air flow, for the exhaust to work, there are two ways, first one is to create a natural flow by building a vent pipe top from the exhaust, higher then ceiling. The second way - just like you said by adding an electric vent. Which way to choose depends on the multiple factors, like the volume of the sauna and construction.

@@Albertsville Nope, old traditional Finnish Sauna has always been exhaust went near ceiling called RÄPPÄNÄ or through ceiling called LAKEINEN and usually floor that has wood planks with caps where all fresh air comes from. I have renovated more than 20 sauna and never seen any that exhaust and fresh air is close to same level when air is flowing natrual without fan. All moderns houses with sauna there exhaust is connected to mechanical ventilation machine and then exhaust vent is under sauna seat but fresh air is over stove on ceiling also often one extra exhaust vent on ceiling which can be opened after you leave from sauna to boost air flow that everything dries faster.

@@mr.wizeguy8995 I'm building traditional Russian saunas for living, but, think logically - fresh cold air comes inside and gets heated by the heater, once it's hot - it moves up to the ceiling. By placing the exhaust at the ceiling, you will be sucking out the fresh hot air! Exhaust at the top means that you are creating full air exchange at the sauna, and that's something you will never want to do, because it will simply overload you heater. All the fresh hot air will be sucked out and you will be sitting in cold, sweaty air which falls to bottom. Exhaust at the top is made only for one reason - to dry the sauna once you are finished, that's all - it can never be used while enjoying the sauna, for that reason most of the time top exhaust will have like a small door, so you can stop the airflow while using sauna and open once finished.

@@Albertsville Traditional Russian sauna how come they are traditional because Russians never invented them? I was just in my own sauna 2 hour ago. Exhaust near ceiling fresh air at floor level and for sure it wasn't cold. I also have separate smoke sauna on my yard and it has plank floor that i can see outside under floor and exhaust went near ceiling and it also works fine just like every other +3 millions saunas in Finland.

What to use instead? Good point. Plus anything heating in there should be natural. Rubber plastics adhesives will be breathed in

@@assyrianme Just wood. Thick wood.

@@assyrianme usually foil. Construction grade foil.

Do not build as he has or you will have problems later on. So many mistakes in here!

Yeas this is not built properly. Be careful with KZfaq DIYers!

Any tips on how to build it? Im really into making one in the backyard

@@nikolaystoyanov3724 Make sure you have a good ventilation...

@@nikolaystoyanov3724 Not having ventilation behind the panels is a big mistake here. The gap behind the panels allow for the panels to dry and not go moldy, minimum 30 mm around all of the panels, including the ceiling. If you're going to use insulation then you want a vapour barrier, an aluminium coated xps insulation (30 mm is standard) is quick and efficient with all the seams taped with a good quality aluminium tape. Through holes should be vapor tight. If you're using rock or glass wool, we like to use aluminium coated paper. Connecting it to the floor is always the challenge. We usually put one horizontal row of floor tiles on the base of the wall and tape the vapor membrane to that row using aluminium tape. Once everything is taped and papered you'll want to be extremely careful and keep everything air and vapour tight. You can strengthen the back of the panelling with plywood for hanging the seats and heating element etc. even if the ventilation is slightly reduced in some places due to this. If you're building it as a separate "shed" and don't want to insulate, then just don't. Use a slightly thicker timber to build the walls and make sure you have good ventilation for when the sauna isn't in use. If you don't have electrics in it then use a solar-powered exhaust vent somewhere in the top and have an inlet somewhere at the bottom of the sauna. Keeping a structure at 100% RH and closing it up and letting it cool down a recipe for disaster. Ventilation around all of the structures and inside the sauna is super important. For good videos look up "saunan rakentaminen" which means "building a sauna" in Finnish. You wont get them in english, but a video speaks a million words...

@@haider254 thanks a lot!!!

here are a few essential parts of a good sauna. replacement air from the outside, sewer, waterproofing without having to get around the sauna "good ventalation"

Finland the home of SAUNA's love the wood burning ones when in Multia and jumping into the lake then :)

Do you have any white papers on that?

@@brianthompson9485 just go check r/sauna. Everyone is extremely adamant about not using treated wood

@@vandrossmeno5088, what they are adamant about doesn't matter. Depending on your location building codes will require treated lumber for anything touching the foundation. I would still like to see white papers on the subject.

Yeah I was surprised about that myself

@@brianthompson9485 I've been doing premium construction for 5 years, I can tell you there are a ton of carcinogens in treated lumber. Remember it took the government 50 years to produce white papers on asbestos, What do you know? It's okay, put pressure treaded lumber in your sauna, I'm a firm believer in natural selection.

how are the Somalian immigrants treating you?

@@G1ennbeckismyher0 Weird question in a video about something that's completely unrelated to that eh? It was dramatized quite the bit at the start (perhaps for a reason at the time) but as the immigration numbers started going down to normal levels again, people stopped focusing on it. Now that there's a 2nd generation of them who speak fluent Finnish and respect the rules, it's just chill, they're Finnish people like us innit.

@@laurikotivuori1585 except they are tainting your blood lines lol

@@G1ennbeckismyher0 Calm the fuck down with the racism buddy, they're Finnish people like the rest of us, aight? There's Finnish people that have moved to places like France, Australia, South Africa et cetera, and people who have moved from those places to Finland. Nothing bad with diversity as long as everything stays controlled, the ones that act correctly are Finnish people, point blank period.

@@G1ennbeckismyher0 "Tainting your bloodlines" goddamn that's such an ass way of disrespecting people, come on man. People can choose who they date, if you prefer someone of color, you prefer someone of color. Those interracial couples will end up with mixed kids, who will most likely end up with "traditional" Finnish partners who will end up with kids that have heavily Finnish DNA anyway, if the extinction of the 'original' Finnish people is what you're talking about.

Lmao so true

You mean this? : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtVnfNF_rZ_bqGg.html

Better than holding the fleshlight for him.

I think holding a flashlight makes up for having a fully decked out house

Ha! Good one.

Considering there's nowhere that sits at 160⁰ +, they are useful anywhere. Great health benefits .

@@dalton1824 huh? Lol did you accidentally comment on the wrong comment?

@@myteaminc you would be correct haha

no niimpä!

hyvin tehty väärin :D

No tää :D

Repesin... ei oo tuo kuumakoppi saunaa nähnykkään.

@@miiahirvonen183 täähän olis aiva loistava jos olis Infrapunasauna

I assume he didn't knew before hand that electric stove has separate heat sensor.

the light is not trimmed in, the conduit in front of the entrance, the wire...a few things that look bad on such an awesome project.

Sooner or later the heater will need new parts like elements, over heat breaker, thermostat… and having any sensor wires behind the paneling would complicate the replacement.

use a fiberglass tape and make sure bends large radius. also little as possible movement in the flex ' i run wire through it all the time

Wabi Sab-e is amazing too

You can check I Like to make stuff too

You do not have to do that. Removable seat is easier to change when they are 20 years old.

@@kimmosuominen4932 Its worth it 100%

Same! Cool to find someone from Kentucky!

Saunas are great, it doesn't matter if it's hot old cold climate :). Just make sure you build a proper one with a sauna stove you throw water, not a dry box with heater :).

Of course it would be useful. Saunas has alot health benefits. Like relaxes your body, releases stress, lesser chance getting heart diseases and so on.

From kentucky too. Would still like to have one even though our summers feel like we are sitting in a sauna.

If you end up building one check out finnish blueprints and plans for saunas. Important thing is ventilatio. Inlet close to kiuas(stove) and outlet on ceiling. And remember, its not sauna if you cannot throw water to the kiuas. Harvia is ok stove manufacturer 💪

Lmao

Tiles get hot, couldn't walk on it.

@@jasonmajere2165 Usually the floor doesn't get hot in sauna. TIles are commonly used in saunas in Finland.

@@jasonmajere2165 no they dont. Hot air goes up, not down. Tiles could easily stay cold.

Hmm interesting. I do 70c -90c and low humidity. Gets too hard to breath towards the end because of all the water :) I do 10min in 3 minutes out a few times than pour a bucket of water over myself. Seems to work good. Do u guys do cold water in sweden?

@@vadimnesen8060 Not too cold for me but usually under 18 degrees Celsius. We keep the sauna at 100 when the water drops to 14 and below. Where are you located?

@@dudeson7479 oh nice. Im in South Carolina

Nah, it has to go over 200!

In the US, federal regulations limit maximum sauna temperatures to 90°C (194°F), you know, because the feds have nothing more important to do than tell people how hot their saunas can be. Of course, there are simple ways to...um...trick the temperature sensor. There is some very impressive research on sauna use improving cardiovascular health.

@@jasonandersen5975 🤣🤣🤣 You are right! They have nothing better to do...

@@jasonandersen5975 Yeah. Install the heat sensor to about halfway to the wall so that warmer air can be upwards, but sensor would still cut off the power for heater. Or just use wood burning heater for authentic sauna experience.

@@darkstari I use the sauna at my gym where the sensor is near the ceiling. Occasionally wet paper towels somehow find themselves on the sensors.

In Soviet Russia man teaches self.

@@DanielMartinezNevarez Hahahaha lol also in balkan we know how to do everything

I can't believe people who can't do anything if someone haven't teach it for them in first place.

He taught himself the way you are. Just watch a lot of people’s videos. There are a lot of people doing good and bad things.

You really notice it he used a wrong door which is really ineffective for saunas and he even forgot to install a drain lmao 😂

Finland we normally heated sauna 176-212 Fahrenheit 80-100 Celsius and used water 💦 of course 🥵

For a big dummy like me, can you elaborate a bit?

I'm building a sauna and would love a little insight. Especially trying to figure out what heater to use. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Stephen

My understanding is that you shower after your first sweat as the pores have opened, the sweat helps clear the dirt and then you wash it all away. Then back into the sauna, more heat, more sweat and then into the lake to cool off as many times as you like.

Also the electrics arent safe for sauna

people don't have any memories from that time lmao under 1 year old

@@taahasiddiqui1071 yes they do

Hahah