Hotter than hell

"Hot, hot, hotter than hell

You know she's gonna leave you well done

Hot, hot, hotter than hell

She'll burn you like the midday sun"/KISS

With the success of last weekend I cranked up the pace yet another notch.

First off was to lay the floor in the dressing room, not that I needed it but I presume the rest of the family would object having to climb around in order to get into the sauna.

Pre-cut as the floorboards were it wasn't that much of a brainer to get them installed. 

However some were bent as bananas requiring minor force to get into place. 

As I've mentioned in an earlier post I intended to lay a laminate floor on top the floor in the dressing room. Much easier to keep clean and it also adds a bit of color to the room. We choose to lay a somewhat darker laminate floor to accentuate the otherwise very pale room. Add a simple bench and some other minor interior artifacts and you get this.

With that out of the way I turned my attention to that what matters.

Two boxes of 20Kg each with stone needed to be placed in the stove.

Well first the thing needed to be installed but with all the wiring in place it didn't take that long.

So the box of these...

A box of pleasure 

 Needed to be added to this

Resulting in this.

I've spent countless of hours in various saunas yet this was the first time I had to stack the stones.

Pretty satisfied with the result so far.

Still had to take care of the water from rain gutters as I left it somewhat in a temporary state (see previous post).

Note the masterful engineering of dropping the water from the garage gutter to the sauna gutter and then down to the sewers...just beautiful...:)

I resorted to using ordinary 75mm sewage pipes to lead the water from the right side so using some pipes, bends and other parts I assembled neat solution for that too.

Still missing the benches in the sauna so that was the next on the todo list.
Somewhat to my surprise they were pre-cut to fit the room. I expected to need to cut them to size since the packages came with an instruction how to shorten the benches to desired size and mentioned a standard size of 210 cm.
I guess that the company I bought the building from had pre-ordered the correct size, not that I complain it saved me some effort.

In retrospect I've fought through mud, rock, rain, blistering cold yet I've refused to bow down.

Since late October I've had one Sunday I've not worked with this project. Apart from that day I've spent each and every weekend relentlessly fighting with a single goal in my mind: 

To build the Finnish temple.

Out there the wind is howling and the rain is pouring, I could not ask for a better weather for the premiere sauna bath.

I leave you with a short clip capturing the sounds of heaven. 

Title reference: Hotter than hell/Hotter than hell/KISS