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Kalle Hoffman's Sauna Page
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Being Finnish and having visited Finland twice
I have grown addicted to saunas. And when I say sauna
I mean a traditional Finnish Sauna. This means lots of water,
a very high temperature (80-100 Celsius) and an unlimited amount
of Löyly! With this addiction to saunas I have set out to answer my
calling to build as many saunas for people to enjoy as I can.
My first sauna
was a side-effect of moving out of my place at
109 Madeline Lane, Aptos.
The landlord was going to
build a duplex. So when I moved to Seabright Avenue in Santa Cruz,
I recycled the wood from my studio and my neighbor's,
Michael Brazell,
place to make my first sauna.
I made the stove out of two hot water heaters.
My second sauna is being built at my friend
Scott's house in
Santa Cruz. Actually
Scott rents a room from David .
We currently have the foundation poured (10'x12') and
are looking for the wood to build the structure.
My third sauna only exists on paper and in my
imagination. I was
going to build it in the last six feet of a
school bus. I have had the idea of building a
mobile sauna since my trip to the
Green River Valley in Wyoming
in the SUMMER OF '94.
I'm looking forward to snowboarding
next season with a hot sauna every evening.
My fourth sauna also exists only in my imagination. I'm building
it on top of a 54 foot silo in Colida, Illinois, at Chris Stanley's Farm
(Peace Garden).
My fifth sauna is built at my house in Santa Cruz.
I built it in the winter of `94 for a New Year's Party.
I learned a few things from my first sauna and incorporated
those ideas into this fifth one. Some of the improvements were:
- Redwood tongue and grove
construction
- Bolts in the foundation
- Five inch curbs that hold
the walls up away from the floor
- Sloped drainage
- Prefabricated walls.
I just started working on my sixth sauna which will be
built in the Santa Cruz Mountians next to a creek.
Here are a few links to other Sauna Pages:
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