No clue where this is from though.

  • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    Normal carpet would be horrifying. However, a soft AstroTurf like material could work.

    The photo is too potato quality to tell what it is.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 days ago

        But astroturf isn’t porous, just plastic grass that let’s water through.

        I’m thinking it should be even rougher if you so want one.

        Bathroom carpets are pretty common, sort of soft but still plastic. Foamy, but also with lots of holes, easy to wash.

        But line yeah idk it might be kinda cool to have a sauna that’s different from the traditional.

        • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          But line yeah idk it might be kinda cool to have a sauna that’s different from the traditional.

          There’s plenty of options to make non-traditional sauna without creating a room-sized petri-dish. Anything fabric-like isn’t a part of the process.

          And there’s also examples on why traditional way to build sauna is the way it is. There’s at least urban rumour about some cruise ship where some oil-prince had decided that artesanal wooden benches weren’t fancy enough and insisted that they’re replaced with copper plates bent in shape. They found out why people prefer wood in sauna pretty quickly.

          • SkelectusMA
            3·
            3 days ago

            There’s at least urban rumour about some cruise ship where some oil-prince had decided that artesanal wooden benches weren’t fancy enough and insisted that they’re replaced with copper plates bent in shape.

            I’ve heard this story in a form where it was war repatations to the soviet union. They specified copper not because they don’t understand saunas, but so they could scrap it.

          • Dasus@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 days ago

            “Fabric-like” isn’t the only way to create texture.

            It’s just a simple fact that tile is the easiest, and pretty much only, option.

            If one was a crazy-rich rich person, it would be possible to make an astro-turf sauna, but… it’s not cost-efficient.

            You know what is exchangable in the sauna? Wooden buckets/scoops with plastic ones.

            You can’t sit on copper in a 110C sauna because of it’s thermodynamic properties but plastic is fine. Well, depends on the plastic, but you know.