Combined with hot temperatures, extreme moisture, bodily fluids, and bacteria, how does a typical sauna not completely rot or develop mould? Seems like the wood would be turned into mush with all of these factors.
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Just getting wet isn’t enough to make wood rot. It has to stay wet for long enough for microbes to start breaking it down. The wood in saunas might get very wet when somebody sweaty sits on it and the humidity gets high when somebody throws water on the rocks, but other than that saunas are extremely dry. So when the wood gets wet it dries back out again too quickly for rot to really set in.
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