Building a home sauna may not be as difficult as you might first think. To start with a sauna is usually quite a small room and you then have the possibility of using one of the many preformed sauna kits for the build.
At this point you may be wondering, "what exactly is a sauna kit?"
The answer is a carefully compiled collection of timbers, fixings and heating components from which a fully working home sauna can be assembled. Here is what you can expect to find in a typical kit.
To start with you will get all of the wood required to line the walls (and usually the floor) of the area into which you are building your sauna. These timber boards come in the correct width and depth, but they require cutting down to size for the floor to ceiling height in question.
Next is the wood for the traditional sauna bench or benches. Again this wood is pre-cut and requires nothing more than assembling.
The final component is the heater. Many small saunas have modern low energy usage infrared heaters. These heaters work by using infrared rays to warm up the surface of the skin, thereby promoting sweating. The other heater is the electric heater that usually heats up a hot plate on to which Finnish style rocks are placed. These rocks get very hot and provide a dry "humidity free" heat that is ideal for a sauna.
If you decide to go down the kit route, you need to find some space in the house where you can fit the kit. These kits are designed to be assembled in room corners where they utilise existing walls and take up a relatively small amount of space. Locations can include: part of a larger bathroom, a bedroom, a loft area, a cellar or even an outdoor cabin or shed.
In addition to the kind of kit described above there is also a semi-completed kit called a prefabricated sauna kit.
Unlike the more basic collection of parts and components, the prefab kit comes partially assembled and in many cases larger components like the walls are already assembled and require nothing more than bolting together. A kit of this type can be completed and up and running in a few short hours.
How big you want the sauna to be is up to you. The smallest kits normally produce a mini sauna that will accommodate two people. In most cases this type of kit will use infrared heaters and it can occupy a space as small as one metre by one and a half metres (i.e. just over three feet by about four and a half feet). The advantage of the infrared heater system is that it requires no warming up time, however it requires naked skin for the rays to do their job.
Other considerations
You do not need to worry about things like ventilation or drainage. Sauna heat is dry heat, so the only moisture that is generated comes from the bodies of the people using the sauna. Having an opening window in the room containing the sauna is however desirable.
There is also no requirement for a flue with any form of electric heater, so there is no plumbing. This means that the disruption and changes to the property are at an absolute minimum and all of the work can be done by anyone with reasonable DIY skills and their own toolkit.
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