Your Home Sauna – Choosing the Best Location
Indoor and outdoor saunas are now available in a variety of shapes and sizes. They can be built to accommodate just about any style or specification. In fact, today’s sauna buyers have so many options, sometimes the most difficult decision can be where to locate the sauna.
For an indoor sauna, the most popular locations seem to be the bathroom and basement. Owners of bathroom saunas often make use of the existing plumbing, drainage and privacy a bathroom typically provides. Given that sauna baths are revered by countless enthusiasts for their cleansing and rejuvenating qualities, it makes perfect sense that so many people choose to install their saunas within just a few steps of their showers and bathtubs.
When a restrictive design or other extenuating circumstances prevent a residential sauna from being installed in the bathroom, many homeowners immediately look to their basements. The addition of a basement sauna can often lead to a person’s cellar becoming the most utilized room in his or her house. A space that was perhaps once reserved for storage can quickly be transformed into a choice spot for enjoyable social gatherings and favored leisure activities. Indeed, just as regular sauna use can promote healthy living, a basement sauna can give a formerly blasé basement new life.
Outdoor saunas are most commonly installed in homeowners’ backyards. The ideal arrangement occurs when a new backyard sauna complements an existing outdoor swimming pool. Weather permitting, the presence of the pool encourages adherence to the much-prescribed heating-cooling cycle advised by health professionals and practiced by responsible sauna bathers. With both a swimming pool and backyard sauna on your property, you may find yourself playing host to your friends and neighbors more frequently than you ever did before. The combination of an outdoor sauna and pool may simply be too enticing and pleasurable for them to resist.
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Do-It-Yourself Infrared Sauna
Buying an infrared sauna cabin can be too expensive, especially if you’re not sure you’ll benefit from it. Infrared sauna blankets, bags or domes force you to lie on one place for half an hour and are not cheap too. However, another option exists – it is to do an infrared sauna yourself.
In this article I want to tell you about two ways to build a sauna completely with your own hands, without prefabricated kits. It can be a relatively cheap solution, so you can enjoy a sauna in your home environment for a reasonable price. You can build it to prove yourself that infrared will give some benefit to your health before buying an infrared sauna cabin, or it can be a convenient way to have a home sauna when you have not much free space at your home.
Before I go into explanations I want to warn you about safety. Building a sauna yourself may involve doing some electrical wiring. Infrared heaters used in a sauna usually have high power requirements – as much as 1000 Watt. Please, do not try to build sauna yourself if you don’t know what you’re doing. Better ask or hire someone who has experience with electricity to do it for you. If you’ll set up a sauna in a bathroom keep in mind that as a wet place it has strict requirements for electrical wiring safety.
Infrared sauna with two infrared heaters