How to build a Sami hut in wood!

Step 10

The last but very important thing to do is to cover the hut with some protection against weather and rain.
I choosed to cover the hut with tarpaper because its easy and cheap, or you can paint the hut directly with tar if you want, but it is a messy project to do that....
You can see that i have nailed some ribbons over the tarpaper that this summer will be used to mount some (i have not decided what type yet) outer panel on.

That ugly monster you see in the last pic is an experiment to see if the arrangement could store some heat for the night (you make the fire around it), it works, but i will later on test an idea that makes use of self circulating water from an accumulator tank and radiators under the lavas (where you sit and sleep) .

Another very important thing to do is to install air intakes at the bottom sides of the the doorframe to feed the fire and to get air to the inhabitants of the hut, and to drill 3-4 pieces of 1/2 to 1 inch holes at the top smoking lid to act as vents.
You dont see this on the pics because it was added after the last foto op.
You can if you want, lead in air via a pipe digged down into the gravels if you dont want to have vissible air intakes.

Finnished!
You are now the proud owner of a unique Sami hut that you can use as a guesthouse or maybe a cool looking sauna.....

PS. If you dont want to turn yourself into a smoke-dried fish, you MUST USE WELL DRIED and WELL SPLITTED wood.

Comments

[hhostel]

This is REALLY cool! Now I gotta show it to my husband so he can build us one in East Texas Piney Woods! I love this design! Thanks for sharing!

[big trav]

That is awesome, I want one!! the missus would shoot me if I built that though instead of the kids cubby house. Well done it looks cool!

[geros59]

In case of using your project as a sauna, would you need other kind of protection for the wood? I mean, with the steam the wood could be ruined, wouldn't it? which one would you recommend?
Thanks

[tlowery04]

your comment about the fish has me wondering... could this be viable as a smoke house?

[Rabarbervin]

Yep! I know of smaller ones that is used as a smoke house, but you could off course use my hut as well, but i doubt you have the amount of fish and meat to smoke that would need the size like this... i would scale it down if i wanted to make it for smoking fish and meat.

[tlowery04]

yeah i think i would have to cut it down by roughly 1/2 to 2/3 just to start with, however i do really like this design and it might have a full size sister structure in the woods in Oklahoma some time soon.

[wobbler]

They can mock you all they like on your english, but they can't mock you on your design! Great job, I want one!

[kleinjahr]

Nice work. A couple of questions though. Did you put spacers under the smoke top for ventilation? If so what was the spacing? How did you seal where the sheathing meets on the 2by 4s. Or did you rip an angle the length of outside edges so that the sheathing would lie flat on them?

[Rabarbervin]

As you can read in step 10 i drilled a couple of ventingholes in the top lid to act as vents. But you can use spacers if you want. And i also drilled air intakes at both side of the door frame (near the ground). And i did rip an angle at the 2 by 4s to get a nice fit. Thx for asking that, as i forgot to put this in the instructable and will do that now.

[The Urban Spaceman]

That is pretty badass. Nice job. So I am guessing with those rocks there like that, you did try it out as a sauna? If so did it work nicely?

[Rabarbervin]

Yep! You get ALOT of steam if you pour water on the stones so it worked perfect as a sauna aggregate. But as a magasine for the heatdistribution during your sleep its not perfect.... but it works.