Home saunas

Over recent years many products that were once considered to be luxury features or fittings have become affordable and open to homeownership. These items include the likes of the Jacuzzi and the home sauna.

Having a home sauna may initially sound expensive and extravagant, but in actual fact there is a vast array of home sauna kits on the market and they cover all price ranges and sauna sizes.

Sauna kits

Sauna kits for the home come in two different forms, the first being a material sauna kit and the second being a pre-fabricated sauna kit.

Both kit types include important functional items like a stove (or an electric heater) along with bench seating, but this is where the similarities end.

Material sauna kits

A material sauna kit includes all of the materials necessary to incorporate a sauna into an existing room within a house or annex building. These kits can be fitted into regular living spaces like bedrooms, or into a loft or cellar. They can even be used to create a sauna in an out building.

Material sauna kits are composed of a heating unit, bench seating and all of the materials required to line the walls and ceiling of the room into which the sauna will be fitted. These kits come in pieces and, although there are detailed instructions for fitting, they require sizing and customising to the dimensions of the room. Consequently, a degree of carpentry or do-it-yourself skill is required.

Material sauna kits are essentially sauna room linings and they have no free-standing ability.

Pre-fabricated sauna kits

The pre-fabricated sauna is an almost complete and fully assembled sauna where the walls and ceiling (and sometimes a floor) are supplied as bolt-together units.

This kind of sauna kit can be assembled in two or three hours and requires no special skills or equipment.

Pre-fabricated sauna kits are normally free-standing and the options for their features include items like a sloping roof, windows and other accessories that make them suitable as independent cabin structures that can be sited in a garden or back yard.

Enjoying the sauna experience

A home sauna will give you the pleasure of relaxing, winding down, and cleansing your skin and body.

A sauna can be enjoyed wet or dry and the choice is dependant upon the addition of water on to the hot rocks that the sauna stove uses to create heat.

A modern alternative to the standard hot rock sauna is an infrared sauna heater that makes the body feel warm, but without the production of hot and humid air. This kind of sauna heater is perfect for saunas that use converted bedrooms, or where room ventilation is very limited or unavailable.