How to Have Home Sauna

It is easy to have a home sauna. In the past, saunas are mainly available in gyms and health club. In fact, in Finland, almost every homes have their own sauna. This is not surprising considering the many benefits of having a home sauna. With your own sauna, you can enjoy sauna sessions as often as you would like to and at your own convenient time.

A sauna is just a room. You can opt to build your own home sauna or you may actually purchase one that you can assemble by yourselves. Purchasing a home sauna is not very troublesome as you can easily source for and purchase one even through the internet. Generally, there are two types of sauna. One is the traditional sauna that uses gas, stove or electricity as its heating elements. The stove usually will heat a stone and in return heat the air within the sauna room. Most of the times, whenever sauna is mentioned, we tend to immediately associate it with the traditional sauna.

However, of late, there is a more popular types of sauna, and it is the infrared sauna. Infrared sauna makes it possible for every home owners to easily buy and have a home sauna. Compared to the traditional sauna, there is no messy plumbing and electricity works involved. All that is needed is just an electrical point.

If you intend to get a traditional sauna, likely you would be building it outdoor. Make sure that you get an experience builder to build your own home sauna. You may also need a building plan approval from the authority. You can read more from How to Build Your Own Home Sauna.

It would be very much convenient if you intend to get an infrared sauna. Home infrared sauna is available in many sizes. There are sauna sizes suitable for 2 person, 3 person, 4 person and sometimes 7 person’s use. There are many elements that is important in getting your own home sauna including the heater and sizes. As a general rule of thumb, you should allocate at least 2 feet of bench for each person. This means that 2 person sauna should have 4 feet of bench, and so on.

The convenience of infrared home sauna is that you can locate the sauna room anywhere within the home. In fact, nowadays the workmanship of a home sauna is so well crafted that having the home sauna itself is a decorative furniture within your house. Consider buying modular home sauna as these are very convenient and easy to assemble. In fact, a home sauna takes only 30 minutes to be assembled.

When you decide to move house, you can also easily disassemble it and move it together. This is not possible if you are building a traditional sauna. Modular home sauna kits are shipped with wall and ceiling sections completely prefabricated. You do not need to worry about the insulation as it comes with complete insulation and pre-installed with the wirings too. You just need to plug in the electrical plug and your home sauna is ready to be used.

You can also build your own home sauna by buying pre-cut sauna kit. If you already have a water-proof room, then what you need is to buy the wall and ceiling and some other sauna kits such as the benches and doors to assemble your own home sauna. Remember not to paint your home sauna. Home sauna should be left unfinished as it is as the high temperature of the sauna room may release toxic contained in the paint. When buying your home sauna, we suggest that you choose cedar wood sauna. There are may benefits associated with cedar wood sauna. You can read more about cedar wood sauna from our earlier post.

The price of a home sauna is not very expensive and is considered very reasonable. If you are staying in the U.S. or Canada, the entire home sauna unit is usually shipped to you free-of-charge. A 2 person sauna usually cost about USD1500 to USD1800, depending on what are the kits you wish to install and equip with.

With a far infrared home sauna, you can install your own personal stereo system and even a TV with a DVD player. Taking 30 minutes of sauna everyday is more than sufficient to help you detoxify your body. For a start, you should perhaps start with the sauna session once a week with each session lasting not more than 30 minutes. As you body get more accustomed to the sauna session, you can then increase both its frequency and the duration of the sauna session.
Completely relax in your sauna as you listen to your favourite classical music, to audio books or while just reading your free health magazines.

Considering there are so many benefits associated with the use of a home sauna, you should really consider it as a long-term investment.