Sauna Maintenance and Care

Date: 2025-01-07, 21:00
Organizer : Lithuanian Bath Academy

This is one of the richest theoretical webinars in content from the Lithuanian Sauna Academy, focused on two study directions: Family Sauna Master and Construction Expert. It provides valuable information for current and future sauna owners and sauna masters. The webinar's value is enhanced by having two highly qualified instructors conducting it through dialogue and Q&A.

Do not it happen again!

Sauna Types and Understanding

When owning a sauna or visiting others, it's crucial to understand the variety of sauna types and their strengths and weaknesses. These include smoke saunas, periodic heating furnaces, iron stoves, steam generators, heated floors, and more. All of them provide good heating, sweating, washing, and sometimes body care procedures.

Quality and Safety

The quality of the sauna experience and participants' satisfaction greatly depend on the operator's knowledge and understanding. Most importantly, this affects safety.
Common Challenges for Sauna Owners

• Darkening and rot of sauna boards
• Poor sauna smell
• Slippery floors
• Dust from stones
• Overly dry and hot sauna
• Steam room difficult to maintain
• Additional operating costs
• Excessive investments in unnecessary items

Webinar Topics

• Historical sauna types
• Modern sauna types
• Sauna rooms and their significance
• Sauna heating methods and stoves
• Bathing situations
• Human safety in sauna
• Basics of sauna microclimate
• Extending sauna exploitation

Construction Block Seminars Schedule

1. Mastering Sauna Maintenance: January 7, 9 M (registration open)
2. Sauna Microclimate: January 8, 9 PM (bulk registration only)
3. Understanding Sauna stoves: January 14, 9 PM (bulk registration only)
4. Sauna Construction, Planning and Building: January 15, 9 PM (bulk registration only)
5. Bonus webinar "Sauna Plan Analysis": January 28, 9 PM (free for participants of all other webinars)

Important Note. All participants of „Sauna Maintenance and Care“ will be invited to register to „Construction webinars“ at lower price

Importat Note 2. Participants of ths webinar will have opportunity to register to other seminars of construction block at lower price.

Bonus: Participation in the January 28 webinar is only for participants for all other webinars.

Important!

• Time. The time for all „construction webinars“ is 9 PM EET (Vilnius and Helsinki time) or 7 PM GMT (London and Dublin time).
• Records. All webinars will be recorded. If you are unable to attend some of the them or would like to watch them again, the recording will be available after the event. 

Theme covered

• Traditional sauna maintenance

  
  Sauna maitenance is a good part of using it...

  Young owners are helped and advised by everyone who is not lazy -  from relatives to online forums. Let's take a look at the most common questions for current (and perhaps future) sauna owners.

  Themes and topics presented in this workshop:

  1. Short review of steam bath ovens
  2. Bathing utensils
  3. Getting ready for heating
  4. Firewood types
  5. Peculiarities of heating different ovens: continuous heating ovens, periodically heated ovens, smoke saunas.
  6. Ventilation: before, during and after bathing
  7. What can not be used in bathing:benches, floors, vessels, used whisks, adjacent rooms.
  8. Disinfection: acohol, plant decoctions, essential oils, hot water and steam, hydrogen peroxide;
  9. Fire safety.
  10. Ecological requirements for sauna use.
  11. FAQ

  FAQ that will be answered

  • Avoiding bad smell?
  • Mold extermination?
  • Changing sauna stones?
  • Avoiding carbon monoxide?
  • Impregnating benches and walls?
  • Whitening dark walls?
  • Back seats. Are they necessary?
  • Use of plastic in sauna?

Rimas Kavaliauskas and Birute Masiliauskiene, authors of the book "Sauna", Lithuanian Bath Masters, intrrnational educators.

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