A sauna is the one interior where timber cycles continuously between 80\u2013100 \u00b0C and high humidity. In those conditions material choice stops being a question of comfort.<\/p>\n
Resinous species such as pine and spruce push resin to the surface as they heat. Hot resin is sticky and carries a burn risk on contact with skin. That is why resinous timber is never used on seating or backrest surfaces.<\/p>\n
A dense, hard timber conducts heat quickly \u2014 and burns whoever sits on it. Sauna benching needs a low-density species that conducts slowly. Ayous<\/strong> is the standard for exactly this reason: resin-free, light, and it does not feel hot to the touch.<\/p>\n Sauna timber wets and dries several times a day. A dimensionally unstable species checks and opens at the joints within a season. Thermowood Ayous or Thermowood Pine move markedly less through that cycle.<\/p>\n Ayous for benches and backrests; Ayous or Thermowood for wall and ceiling panelling; a hardwood rated for wet floors underfoot. And never varnish or oil the surface<\/strong> \u2014 a sealed face traps moisture inside the timber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A sauna is the harshest interior a timber will meet. Getting the species wrong there is a safety problem, not an aesthetic one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-installation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basaranorman.com\/en\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basaranorman.com\/en\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basaranorman.com\/en\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basaranorman.com\/en\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basaranorman.com\/en\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basaranorman.com\/en\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basaranorman.com\/en\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basaranorman.com\/en\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basaranorman.com\/en\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basaranorman.com\/en\/wp-json\/\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Surviving the moisture cycle<\/h2>\n
The practical rule<\/h2>\n