Finland: a sauna in every apartment? Why not!
What national peculiarity of the Finns is known to everyone? Yes, this is their love of going to saunas! Sauna is an integral part of Finnish social and business life (even MPs once a week hold an official meeting in the sauna!), and it is also the main place for rest, relaxation, meeting with friends and relatives. Finns have saunas everywhere - in shopping and entertainment centers, cafes, restaurants and, of course, on the picturesque shores of numerous water bodies in Finland.
Approximately 60% of the Finnish population lives in their own houses and apartments. And it is not surprising that with such a love of visiting saunas, they are present in almost every private Finnish house or in the local area. But the absence of a sauna in the house is extremely rare (perhaps, it is not Finns who live in these houses?).
And what about the apartments? It turns out that nowadays there is a sauna in every second private apartment! And the number of such apartments is growing steadily.
As a rule, saunas in Finnish apartments are small comfortable rooms, in the form of a separate room in the bathroom, in which you can perfectly relax after a working day.
The bathroom itself is usually a combined bathroom: washbasin, shower and toilet. But our favorite baths are very rare in Finland.
In addition, in every apartment building in Finland (including municipal buildings where about 40% of the population rents housing) necessarily on the technical floor there are several saunas (depending on the number of apartments), which residents visit in accordance with schedule. And, as a rule, there is one public sauna, which each of the residents can visit at any convenient time.
In recent years, a fashion has also appeared in our country for the installation of Finnish saunas in apartments. There are ready-made sauna cabins on sale. Their health benefits and harms are widely discussed. After all, Finnish saunas are very hot (the temperature is brought to 140 °) and dry (humidity is from 5 to 15%). Well, the pleasure is not cheap.
Would you like to be able to take a steam bath in a Finnish sauna at any time, or is the good old bath still better?
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