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We also (of course) always use a professional electrician to install a kiuas. Together with the smaller internal dimensions, this is clearly easier kiuas to handle and maintain. The new kiuas, Tulikivi Sumu, is also rather tall, but the external dimensions hide the fact that Tulikivi relies on dual-casing construction: there are isolating cavities inside kiuas, and this model only takes 60 kg of stones (rather than 90 kg of Harvia Figaro). This sounded great when we got it (in theory at least, a massive kiuas gives more balanced “ löyly” – the experience derived from such elements as right temperature, the release of steam and the atmosphere), but in the end this design was one of the reasons we did not maintain the kiuas in the manner it should have been done (we did of course change the stones, but probably not as often as it should have been done). And this kiuas took maximum amount of 90 kg of stones. The inside edges or rim of the steel box were so sharp in Harvia Figaro, that it was bit painful to squeeze your hand (and stones) deep inside kiuas. At the same time, it must be said that positioning stones among the heater elements inside a kiuas that is 94 cm deep, is hard. I blame myself for not being diligent enough to take the stones out at least a few times per year, washing them, and then putting them back – the heater elements would no doubt stayed in better shape and the entire kiuas maybe even lived longer that way. One of the lessons from Harvia was that a long construction with an open side that exposes the stones is challenging: the small stones can easily even squeeze out through the steel bars, and the tall heater elements become strained among the moving stones.
– The sad final state of our Harvia Figaro, FG90. This is specced for a 8-13 m³ sauna room, so hopefully it would be suitable for our case. So I decided to get a new kiuas.Īfter some careful examination and discussion about the needs and priorities of our family, the choice was Tulikivi Sumu ST 9 kW model. Also, we could not really completely trust the controller, timer and other electronics inside Harvia after the dramatic short circuit.
The heater elements ( lämpövastukset) of kiuas were pretty much gone. Looking inside the Harvia after 10 years of use was eye-opening. Luckily our circuit breakers worked just fine – we just missed one fundamental Finnish tradition: joulusauna. There was an electric failure (the junction box of kiuas basically exploded, there was an electric short circuit), and I am not an engineer enough to say whether some underlying failure in stove itself was the reason, or just the weakly designed connections in the junction box failing over time. Just before Christmas this year, this kiuas broke down. Ten years ago, 2010, I blogged about the new kiuas (stove) for our sauna, Harvia Figaro.
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