Steam & Oak Ruutu 230 Thermowood Cube Sauna With Glass Front Gas, Electric Or Wood-fired - Gas Botnia 81, No Safety Pack

Steam & oak ruutu 230 thermowood cube sauna ruutu is finnish for a square pane, the kind you look through. The ruutu range is built around that idea: a squared cabin with softly rounded corners and a front that is almost entirely glass. The ruutu 230 is 2.3 Metres by 2.3 Metres, in 46mm thermowood, held together with stainless steel bands, with a hot room of about 8.5M and a two metre bench run along the side wall. Why the corners are rounded on a conventional cube the roof and the walls meet at hard edges, and every edge is a joint where rain can sit and work its way in. On the ruutu the roof curves down into the sides, so one continuous skin of bitumen shingles runs from the base on one side, over the top, to the base on the other. There is no roof to wall joint for water to find, and nothing flat for it to pond on. Inside, the same curve leaves fewer tight corners where air stalls. The glass front the front is 8mm tempered, tinted glass: two full height panes, one of them the door, and a narrow pane either side. That is roughly 3.1M of glass looking out from the bench. Tinted glass cuts glare and gives some privacy from outside while the view from inside stays clear. Glass also loses heat far faster than solid timber, which is why the heater choice below matters more on this cabin than on a closed cube. Why the bands are stainless the ruutu is built like a barrel: solid staves held in compression by steel bands, rather than thin cladding over a frame. Timber shrinks ea...

Steam & oak ruutu 230 thermowood cube sauna ruutu is finnish for a square pane, the kind you look through. The ruutu range is built