Thumps up to Finnish welfare department. Things are not that bad in this remote country

Well for one, Global Warming has helped here. Longer warmer summers are the answer.

So, lets all help. Get in your Hummer and drive a tank of gas off, to help Finland.

Wait, as an evil American. I want Global Cooling and the S Rate to climb in Finland. Cx the Hummer trip.

It depends how you define “longer warmer summers”. It is a completely different story up north where you have to ask how many days it did not rain instead of how many days of rain did we get? :/

Em, you are trying to engage in discourse with winter. Does not compute. Retry? Cancel? Abort?

Nicely done, thread hijacked by comment #2. Hallmark winter moment.

Herku i was trying to bring to your attention the fact that you cannot generalize. Agree

Nicely done, thread hijacked by comment #2

Actually winter usually hijacks my posts by comment #1

In many eastern cultures suicide is respectable way to go (like Japan) and Finns is a rare breed of both western and eastern. Put Phil in Vietnam and he is not going to understand local (ironic) jokes at all but Finns will.

I wonder how Hungary is doing nowadays. It was always right after Finland in the statistics.

There is a whole different atmosphere there. The people are open, talkative and expressive. Yet there was (is?) a high suicide rate.

People who do not think much, die of external reasons. People who think too much, die of internal reasons.

One thing really American Phil shoud ask: is Commodore-64. THAT WAS THE MACHINE. Kuuslankku ja mikrobitti.

Yuk, guys, they just pained the house (inside), and the new Sauna room.

How will the paint last under a hot Sauna bake off? I plan to cover the room in Cedar, so that could shield the paint.

Any Ideas?

i plan to help america gain its share soon

@13: Cedar? You mean like cigar-box cedar? That might not be very good for you in the long run. I have heard the sawdust from that is toxic. Sauna walls are normally surfaced with spruce and the benches are made with alder.

“You see, this blog isn’t ALWAYS so negative and critical…!” – Phil

Well then why do I always want to kill myself after visiting it?

“How will the paint last under a hot Sauna bake off? I plan to cover the room in Cedar, so that could shield the paint.” – winter

Apparently you and your builders know as much about saunas as you do about everything else.

Saunas reach temperatures of up to 100 degrees C, and god knows how hot the walls get. There should be nothing like paint in there.

The paint will “last” a couple of saunas, but after a few weeks of regular use what you will have is paint fumes seeping through the cracks, over months and years who knows what the paint will do (carcinogens, anyone? Oh, but you have proton power at your disposal, so no worries about cancer, right?)

You should have some insulation between the sauna walls and any other surface. What you have going on now is a mistake.

And your plans of cedar? Eh?

I would just use 5/8″ pine boards that can be locked together by the end-grooves. Leave unpainted!

The benches can also be made from pine (unless you can find adler, as Sirkuspelle suggested), but use thick 5/4″ stock for horizontal and diagonal supporting members—clean, no knots! Vertical posts can be 3.5^2 square or slightly less. Slats for sitting and standing can be the normal 3/4″ if spaces between supports aren’t too wide; otherwise use 5/4″.

Pay attention to the railings. Make sure the posts go all the way to the floor where they are anchored. Or have some type of triangular design underneath to support lateral forces. Just don’t let him do simple tack-on railing posts. You’ll regret it.

For insulation, you might consider blown-in, rigid foam. But make sure you’ve got enough space to let air vent-out between the stud bays. Drill holes in the top and bottom plates of the frame wall to let air circulate. Without the air channels, the structure can rot from the back side.

A vapor barrier is also a good idea to keep heat in. They probably have special ones at sauna suppliers.

“A vapor barrier is also a good idea to keep heat in. They probably have special ones at sauna suppliers.” – Kristian

I think there is the last sauna monopoly in existence in the US, located somewhere in Minnesota or was it Michigan.

Yuk, guys, they just pained the house (inside), and the new Sauna room.

How will the paint last under a hot Sauna bake off?

Maby, just maby, you might have wanted to consider that BEFORE you chose the paint? Do tell me you used regular latex paint…

You see, this blog isn’t ALWAYS so negative and critical…!

Also Reader’s Digest, the apple pie of the American press, has turned nanny:

http://www.rd.com/content/best-places-to-live-green/

From the evidence of recent blog entries on FfT, this country really is falling to bits. Only bronze in divorce and now we are not even world champions in suicide. It’s all very disappointing. I really hope it’s not the Swedes that have beaten us. We must try harder.

http://nccbsource.blogspot.com/2009/01/compulsory-military-service-results-to.html

finland – unhappiest place on earth

i have tried suicide once and im from finland omg! haha moi kaikki ihanat suomalaiset jotka lukee tätäkin paska kirjotusta salee on vissii kans joo angstisin maa

One of my objectives in existence would be to discover as much as I can and this weblog certainly teached me some things.

Happy running a blog..lol

The finns are also doing amazing work with schizophrenia using an amazing model called the Open Dialogue approach. 

I’m surprised at how difficult it is to find more information on this subject. I mean, it’s good that things have improved, but after 60 Minutes did a story on depression among Finnish males it was as if the story was somehow banned in America after that.