Sauna In Northwood

Oliver1985

Anyone see Ben Dunnes Notices all over northwood? They were put up yesterday saying if he gets anymore complaints about people pouring water on the rocks in the sauna he is shutting it! I would hate to see this happen over the select few idiots who do this?:(

Easy Rider

Plenty of idiots in that gym, I go once or twice a week, don't use the sauna much but other things like people who are unable to put the weights back and just leave them around the place...hogging the equipment by putting a towel on whatever machine and going off to another one or doing weights then back 5 minutes later (the gym is over subscribed enought without that rubbish)....

Iago

Northwood is fine imo. I've no doubt there are better gyms, and the price point is aimed at a market that on the whole are probably less "fanatical" about their fitness but for all of that I've never had a problem there.

I just go in, get my workout done, maybe have a quick steam room and get out. I've never actually used the sauna but they can't have eyes and ears everywhere so I guess it's a damage limitation exercise.

axer

Is it bad to pour water on the rocks or something?

Oliver1985

Not to sure if it is! I was in it before and some foreign guy poured some mad smelling stuf on it, smelled like lavender or something! Maybe thats the problem!

The Davestator

The sauna thing is a pet hate of mine - here's the problem;

The coals are heated by electric elements
They are hot enough to turn a small amount of water into steam.
If too much water is put on the coals, the water does not all trun to steam and some reaches the electric elements and causes them to short.
You then have to turn it off, wait for the coals to cool down, take all the coals out, replace the element, replace the stones and turn it on.

This process takes a few hours IF you have the elements in stock!

The ladle is a certain size for a reason!

axer

The Davestator wrote: »

The sauna thing is a pet hate of mine - here's the problem;

The coals are heated by electric elements
They are hot enough to turn a small amount of water into steam.
If too much water is put on the coals, the water does not all trun to steam and some reaches the electric elements and causes them to short.
You then have to turn it off, wait for the coals to cool down, take all the coals out, replace the element, replace the stones and turn it on.

This process takes a few hours IF you have the elements in stock!

The ladle is a certain size for a reason!

Are the elements that fickle? Surely they are made to take water.

I am in Germany at the moment and about to go for a real sauna (Aufguss 90-100 degrees C).

I can understand why the foreign guy put some water with sented oils over the rocks - that is what you are supposed to do.

The sauna's in Ireland are way too cool (if you can get past the awful idea of wearing swimming togs in a sauna in the first place). They should either invest in something that puts in the water semi-automatically or else get a real heater.

Oliver1985

The Davestator wrote: »

The sauna thing is a pet hate of mine - here's the problem;

The coals are heated by electric elements
They are hot enough to turn a small amount of water into steam.
If too much water is put on the coals, the water does not all trun to steam and some reaches the electric elements and causes them to short.
You then have to turn it off, wait for the coals to cool down, take all the coals out, replace the element, replace the stones and turn it on.

This process takes a few hours IF you have the elements in stock!

The ladle is a certain size for a reason!

So thats what Ben Dunne must be freaked about cause it was closed of the other day!!!

The Davestator

axer wrote: »

Are the elements that fickle? Surely they are made to take water.

I am in Germany at the moment and about to go for a real sauna (Aufguss 90-100 degrees C).

I can understand why the foreign guy put some water with sented oils over the rocks - that is what you are supposed to do.

The sauna's in Ireland are way too cool (if you can get past the awful idea of wearing swimming togs in a sauna in the first place). They should either invest in something that puts in the water semi-automatically or else get a real heater.

I wouldn't call them fickle but when people pour buckets on that when the problem starts. i took the bucket out of a sauna in a club i worked in before and people started using swimming hats, water bottles and the fire extinguisher to put water on the coals!

Oliver1985

Fire extinguishers? For real?

The Davestator

Yep! In the end, we just stopped replacing the elements until the everyone got p**sed off with these idiots and reported them.

If you like steam that much, go to the steam room.

*rant over*

Easy Rider

How can you say you understand why people put water on the coals when it says 'Do not pour water on coals' everywhere?

You can see by the design it is not that type of sauna, if he was that into them he should know that...

P.S. I have no problem with the Gym, just annoys me people not reading signs...

dogbert27

Have to agree with Axer on this:

If it's a electric powered coal sauna you still throw water on it to generate steam. The whole point of a sauna is to get it hot and get you sweating all the crap and dirt out of your skin and clean yourself.

I've been in saunas in northern Europe and throwing water on the stones of these types of saunas is the norm. Also agree with Axer that it is normal for the foreign guy who put some oil or something on it too. My favourite thing is to pour some beer over it and get that malt smell.

Now if they were throwing water over the infra red saunas, that's a different matter!

Roper

Em, pretty sure that Ben probably doesn't write those notices himself...