No clue where this is from though.
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this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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♫ Sopping wet carpet squishing in between your toooes! ♫
Normal carpet would be horrifying. However, a soft AstroTurf like material could work.
The photo is too potato quality to tell what it is.
Hell no, anything porous on the floor is a no-go.
But astroturf isn't porous, just plastic grass that let's water through.
I'm thinking it should be even rougher if you so want one.
Bathroom carpets are pretty common, sort of soft but still plastic. Foamy, but also with lots of holes, easy to wash.
But line yeah idk it might be kinda cool to have a sauna that's different from the traditional.
But line yeah idk it might be kinda cool to have a sauna that’s different from the traditional.
There's plenty of options to make non-traditional sauna without creating a room-sized petri-dish. Anything fabric-like isn't a part of the process.
And there's also examples on why traditional way to build sauna is the way it is. There's at least urban rumour about some cruise ship where some oil-prince had decided that artesanal wooden benches weren't fancy enough and insisted that they're replaced with copper plates bent in shape. They found out why people prefer wood in sauna pretty quickly.
There's at least urban rumour about some cruise ship where some oil-prince had decided that artesanal wooden benches weren't fancy enough and insisted that they're replaced with copper plates bent in shape.
I've heard this story in a form where it was war repatations to the soviet union. They specified copper not because they don't understand saunas, but so they could scrap it.
"Fabric-like" isn't the only way to create texture.
It's just a simple fact that tile is the easiest, and pretty much only, option.
If one was a crazy-rich rich person, it would be possible to make an astro-turf sauna, but... it's not cost-efficient.
You know what is exchangable in the sauna? Wooden buckets/scoops with plastic ones.
You can't sit on copper in a 110C sauna because of it's thermodynamic properties but plastic is fine. Well, depends on the plastic, but you know.
Realistically, how bad would this smell? My first intuition would be that the carpet would smell sweaty and gross really fast, but maybe the sauna is hot enough to kill the bacteria that make sweat smell bad?
The floor doesn't get that hot. It would immediately turn into a disgusting swamp, though I guess someone who builds this wouldn't use water anyway.
The far corners would be particularly nasty.
No, the floor isn't nearly hot enough to kill bacteria. We have a tiled floor on our sauna an even that starts to smell like damp ass if you don't clean it every now and then. And it's not just sweat you're dropping there. Sweat washes off quite literally all the shit from your skin (dead skin cells, dirt, chemical residues, snot, hair and everything). To disinfect the floor with just heat you'd ignite the whole thing, which might not be a bad idea.
Carpeted floors in general are a abomination, but one in sauna is at another level.
They make marine grade carpet for boat decks, it's like a water repellent, non-absorbent, stiff nylon weave that provides grip, dries easily, can be hosed down, and doesn't soak up moisture.
Maybe it's that?
Could you imagine cutting a piece of that and using it in a mug of hot water to brew sauna tea?
Shame the walls aren't carpeted as well... Tasty brew
mug moment