Question:
He uses Harvia heaters, which are supposedly designed and made in Finland.
> Is that name familiar to you? Or is it just a poor commercial substitute
> for a real wood fire, built for export to gullible Americans? I always
> wondered.
Answer:
I don't shop for sauna heaters, but Google is your friend:
http://www.harvia.fi/index.cgi/
Looks real enough to me. If they were only in the business of
bamboozling Americans, I doubt they'd have pictures of bathing
naked men, women and children on the site ;-)
That must look fairly scandalous in the bible belt, says my
uninformed opinion.
They look exactly like the heaters most Finns have.
Oh, and where they speak of Finnish 'sisu' (stamina) in the
description of the Harvia 50 for public saunas, that refers to
the Finnish male's hobby of competitive sauna bathing.
The guy at the water bucket keeps throwing until every last
man has left the sauna, often looking like a boiled lobster.
