Sauna Wood Rotting Floor Prevention

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Sauna wood rotting floor prevention. White rot fungi attack the cellulose and lignin in wood eventually giving the wood an off white appearance. A word on building your own sauna and dealing with the sauna floor. Never install a wood burning rock heater on top of a concrete patio slab that is on top of the wood floor. Here s an email exchange that may offer some guidance.

Read more a great idea for your sauna floor. So have your marsh mellows on standby. It has been known to ignite the wooden sauna floor about 8 hours later. Soft rot fungi decompose wood more slowly than brown rot fungi and white rot fungi but thrive in temperatures too hot and too cold for the other types to survive between 0 and 110.

Flooring cupping or buckling occurs and a subfloor moisture problem worsens when there is impermeable flooring like vinyl laminate or a typical polyurethane finish on wood. The homeowner had recently completed some plumbing upgrades which took care of the water source for the rot but the floor damage was already done. Sauna heaters and wood burning stoves are very efficient so the area below the sauna stove will heat up the concrete patio stone. Shelf fungi bracket fungi and mushrooms are all forms of white rot fungi.

Wood attacked by white rot lacks the cubical checking appearance of brown rotted wood. Our winters are mild by minnesota standards but. In the later stages the wood may become spongy to the touch.