The Art of Sauna Building

Bert (Pertti) Olavi Jalasjaa

ISBN 10: 0968570704 / ISBN 13: 9780968570708

Published by Key Industries, 1981

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Title: The Art of Sauna Building

Publisher: Key Industries

Publication Date: 1981

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

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Book Description
9th Edition Published: June 1, 2015

Planning and building a perfect home sauna is an art. With these sauna plans, even a novice do-it-yourself builder can easily build a beautiful home sauna, with everything done right the first time!

The Art of Sauna Building has become the industry bible for correct sauna design and sauna building techniques. Over 40,000 copies have been sold! You should not build a sauna without this book as your own sauna consultant.

In this book, Finnish author Bert (Pertti) Olavi Jalasjaa (a master sauna builder), reveals all the secrets so you can build a professional-looking sauna the first time! It's an easy-to-read book with 164 drawings and illustrations so you can plan and build your own sauna correctly! Use the checklists, material lists, drawings and blueprints to save hours of building time!

Contents Include:

• Planning indoor and outdoor saunas
• How to make your sauna superior to an infrared sauna
• Dry sauna, wet sauna or traditional sauna? How to have all three!
• Differences between steam saunas and traditional hot rock
• Framing, construction, insulation and finishing details
• How to maximize the benefits

About the Author:

I was born in Finland as Pertti Olavi Jalasjaa, and raised in Ontario, Canada, so I benefited from the best of both cultures. When I was 2 weeks old, I had my first visit to the sauna, a common practice in Finland for newborns.

At age 20, my Dad and I built our first sauna at our new cottage right beside the lake. This was the first sauna either of us had ever built. Soon it became a ritual for Mom to fire up the sauna stove every afternoon on weekends. And it gave a very unique meaning to life, when we had 3 generations of family enjoying the sauna on a rainy Saturday afternoon with frequent dips in the lake. As a Finn would say, just part of the meaning of life!

At age 28, I started to build saunas for customers as a part-time business. Since that humble beginning, my companies have helped over 65,000 sauna customers build their dream sauna, patented some unique designs and preached the sauna gospel to many converts along the way.

I had also written a book, The Art of Sauna Building, which became acclaimed as a best-seller with over 40,000 copies sold to date. It received the ultimate confirmation of its status when a senior vice-president with the largest sauna manufacturing company in the world, Saunatec Oy (listed on the Finnish stock exchange), called it the best book ever written on sauna building . The 9th Edition is now available.