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Another Picture

Here is one more picture. I am going to set up a WinZip file of pictures for some. If you can't live without one email me, but it'll pretty much be the same as the blog only with multiple angles of the current shots.

A series of Pics

Introduction

Anne and I are proud to announce the birth of our daughter Alice Katherine Leino. She was born 11/25/2005 at 5:13 pm. Mother and baby are doing fine.

The pictures of the sauna

Here is a picture of the stove and part of the bench.
Here is the shower. I put the restrictor back in and it works better now. I have a small leak to fix, but that should be a quick fix. It looks like it is leaking from a screw hole.
This is a view from the window that leads to the laundry room.

It is difficult to get a good picture of the sauna. These were the best ones.

First Sauna.

Anne and I took the first sauna in our new heat room. The heat is pretty good for an extremely small sauna. I am fairly certain that three could fit comfortably, but it is very nice for two. I need to figure a lower bench or step for the the room and to put up the trim, but otherwise it is a very nice little sauna.

I also finished the shower. It looks pretty good. I am pleased with the look of it, but wouldn't do it the same way if I were to do it again.

Only two small issues arose from the maiden voyage. First the sauna seeps water from under the stove. I am planning on putting some vinyl patch and sloping the floor to the drain when I do the bathroom and hallway. I was also thinking of running a bead of silicone on the outside edge of the plate before I panel the wall, but have to research if that is the proper thing to do. The second issue is that the showerhead is too powerful for the size of the shower. There was quite a bit of overspray onto the floor. I took the restrictor out of the the head and I think that may have been a mistake. I hope I didn't throw it away. I want to see if that will fix the problem.

All in all I am very pleased with the sauna. I will post some pictures tomorrow.

A side note; Our eldest cat Momma Cat is ill. She is starting to get better. She ate some solid food today and that is a good sign. We don't have to take her back to the vet. We'll just wait and see now.

With a bench we have sauna

Here is a shot from where one would sit while they are in the sauna.
Here is where the water will be converted to steam.

Here is the door to get into the steam room. If you look real hard you may be able to make out the laundry room.

The project is coming along very well. Thanks mostly to our fathers and Mikko.

First Snow

Here is a shot of the first row of cedar paneling. It went up better than I was expecting. I need to go get some longer nails for the rest of the walls, but so far so good.

Here is a quick shot of the first snowfall of the season. It makes everything look nice and clean for awhile. So let it snow.

A little bit of Sauna

I don't have any good pictures of the current state of the basement. Here is one of our sauna. The ceiling is ready to be paneled.

The rest of the basement is going well for the most part. The bottle neck is the plumber. I think we've been given an plumber in training. I am shocked...shocked I say, at how slowly the progress is coming in the plumbing department.

Hello Walls

With the help of my father and Mikko, we got some walls up in the basement. The bathroom and shower are ready for plumbing. The process was much slower than we anticipated, but that seems to always be the case. It is mostly all downhill from here. So there is still a chance that Anne and I can sauna prior to the baby.