Looking for pönttöuuni in Finland

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1. They have some in Old Kuopio Museum or in many Finnish houses like mine 🤣

2. I have one in my house.

   No, you can’t come see it.

3. Try to visit older buildings, maybe check pictures first if the heaters are looking ones you exactly want to see. Some ideas:
   * Ruiskumestarin talo, Helsinki
   * Ehrensvärd museum, Helsinki
   * Hakasalmen huvila, Helsinki

4. When you get here I also recommend to get this book: https://www.suomalainen.com/products/muuratut-tulisijat
   It contains cutaway drawings from one general kind of pönttöuuni (among other kinds of masonry heaters).

5. Check this. You can search it with “pönttöuunin rakenne”

   [https://kotimmekoivurinne.blogspot.com/2014/08/ponttouunin-muuraaminen.html](https://kotimmekoivurinne.blogspot.com/2014/08/ponttouunin-muuraaminen.html)

6. In Tampere the museum for working class housing might be of interest: https://www.amurinmuseokortteli.fi/en/frontpage/

7. You can see them at some Prisma Rauta’s. For sale… or look at rental properties that are older.

8. Are you actually looking for pönttöuuni (outer parts made of thin metal sheet) or kaakeliuuni (outer parts made of ceramic tiles)? They are found in very different locations, ie pönttöuuni was common in working class apartments and countryside buildings, kaakeliuuni only in upper class apartments and manors.

9. At least Loviisa does an annual “Vanha talot” (=Old houses) event where various houses are open to visit – it’s 30-31 August this year. Great way to see some of them in their original and still continued use, as many old houses here across Finland have them and still use them. I’d invite you to see mine if I had one (I have a Porin Matti and old wood cooking stove, though, so nothing to offer). Maybe other towns have similar events?

10. You can find old pictures in Finna: https://www.finna.fi/Search/Results?lookfor=topic:(%22p%C3%B6ntt%C3%B6uunit%22)%20OR%20topic_id_str_mv:(%22http://www.yso.fi/onto/koko/p75993%22)%5E100000

    Otherwise, Finland is filled with museums and pönttöuuni is pretty common, so it can be found “everywhere”, but it not necessary advertised..

11. Contact this group and they can help you.

    http://www.kaakeliuuni.fi/indexengl.html

    Most older museum buildings have them and the people at the link can likely get you any information you need.

    https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Cocklestoves
    These are actually very well researched and documented. There’s a Finnish Stove heater and a Russian Stove heater. They are slightly different in their inner workings.

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